Jake Gittes

Unless I missed something all it needs to do for that is outgross Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring's 2.380m. The Host and The Handmaiden are the only other ones to make 2m. Really hammers home what woeful luck SK films have had with American distribution.

For comparison the current PTA record for a foreign film is Lust Caution's 64k in 1 theater. In more than 1 theater the top 3 are all Almodovar movies from the '00s with around 50k each.

WB could have possibly marketed this better, and obviously it would've gotten it out of Joker's shadow, so maybe a couple more million on OW. But if it still were the exact same movie it wouldn't make much difference in the end.

for comparison Logan and Deadpool increased 102-109%.

the irishman would have been a 100m grosser for paramount @TMP

The box office story of the weekend I can feel it.

The best part of that was how Black Swan then outgrossed Narnia. Glory to Searchlight. Same happened to Sony in 2000 when SPC's Crouching Tiger ended up their biggest movie.

They're pretty different. I'm sure this would have been a lot more interesting in Scott's hands though.

Also saw this linked on Twitter and it cracks me up. Ah the '90s. Lemke hits H’w’d with 2-pic pitch Darren Lemke, who until February was wrangling shopping carts at a ShopRite in Carlstad, N.J., is now a half-million dollars richer, having sold two pitches to Touchstone for Tony Scott to direct. The price for both is an estimated $500,000. JD Prods.’ Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher are producing. The first pitch is “Undertow,” the search for the black box after Air Force One is blown out of the sky, and the second is an untitled sci-fi thriller about a successful corporate assassin who is hunted by a younger clone of himself, created by a genetic engineering company. The 27-year-old scribe has been writing screenplays since he was 15, but his scripts hadn’t gained attention until he gave a script called “Cherry Poppers” to Salvatore Capone, a friend who worked for director Joe Dante’s company Renfield Prods. “It’s beyond words and it hasn’t hit me yet,” Lemke said. “I always thought I had two talents: pushing up shopping carts and writing. I had no middle ground. Going out to Los Angeles is like visiting Oz. People want to look at my scripts and talk to me. I mean I even met Tony Scott. I’m somewhere over the rainbow.” https://variety.com/1997/film/news/lemke-hits-h-w-d-with-2-pic-pitch-1116679545/

In her first couple scenes with Smith I was all like just put these two in a legit North by Northwest type movie. Why so half-assed?

American Sniper dropped 27%, The Passion of the Christ 36%.

Nice that we got the correct Coppola ranking in here.

Now I wish Judy Davis had been a part of the Mad Max universe that would have rocked.

I'll give Green Book this: it's extremely good at ingratiating itself with the mass audience. A cultural critic could probably comfortably write a, ahem, book about all the choices it makes as part of that and what they effectively mean.

No clearer proof than The Lion King in its 13th weekend playing in more theaters than Ad Astra in its 4th.

Well he got one thing right.

fuck yeah sorcerer

"I don't believe in anything. I just thought it'd be good for my act" is the movie describing itself to the audience. Still, I liked Joker ranting and shooting people in the most basic sense that he was finally fucking doing something instead of being kicked around by everybody.

Dog Day Afternoon excepted, Rocky Horror is the movie I'm most glad I caught up with for this countdown. Delightful.

> EXPANDING 10 9 The Lion King (2019) Buena Vista 1,687 +653 +63.2% 13 Oct 4–6 12 $685,089 -58.7% 1,034 -657 $663 $541,281,146 12

honestly Jack's best performance imo.

Wtf that's pretty damn low.

60

Saw this. The HFR provides a hyper smooth scrubbed-clean look that means there's basically no texture or atmosphere whatsoever to the world onscreen, the eyes get tired quickly having to follow the never-stopping motion, and for all the surface "immersion" there are barely any actual images here worth a damn. This ironically would probably be a bigger liability if the movie had a better script. As it stands it's extremely first-drafty and noncommittal about drama/conflict etc. which only reinforces the feeling that you're watching a tech demo. There's a really nice and clean motorcycle chase but also a scene of CG fire that's just heart-stoppingly atrocious to look at like it's from 1992 or something. If you're gonna see this at all - and it's totally skippable - HFR is probably the way to go just because of the novelty, you'll at least have a little more to pay attention to.

Green Book is about as cinematic as a magazine photoshoot. Virtually any individual shot in Beale Street has more care and craft put into it