Arlborn
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11 minutes ago, dudalb said:
I love anything about the Space Program, but I hope they do the "Fake Moon Landing" as a rellly bad idea played for laughs.
If they push it seriously, I am so not seeing this.
Yeah, I do hope it doesn't do anything for that "moon landing is fake" idiotic crowd as well.
This looks delightful to me though, and that last line by Scarlett Johansson is golden.
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2 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:
Would the sale include CBS News and Sports divisions? If so, $26 billion feels underpriced.
So, outside of movies, their coverage of Champions League is cool, their team covering it always generates a lot of clicks and memes in soccer twitter/reddit, it would suck to lose that team.
Regarding the movies aspect of this deal, Hollywood is dead.
I know I know, let me overreact and moan a bit
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600M-1B range for me, for now (big I know, will narrow it down in some months)
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17 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:
We live in a highly fragmented world, it’s not just streaming, it’s the entertainment and all business now. Nearly everything popular these days are huge with some groups and irrelevant or a joke to others. It’s just the way things are.
For better and for worse, the internet has divided us in smaller groups than ever before. Not sure anyone has foreseen that when the internet started becoming popular.
Oh well, meh weekend, could've been worse though, and hey at least this thread has seen some traffic, even if the content is...questionable.
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2 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:
Just for expectations setting, I feel like Bad Boys, Quiet Place, Twisters, and the two Shams films are the live action adult films I feel a ton of buzz for this summer besides the obvious Deadpool, with Fall Guy, Furiosa, Apes, Horizon, Bikeriders, Fly Me To The Moon and everything else disappointing. I also predict a minor breakout for Borderlands which has a fanbase and a disappointment for Alien Romulus despite the quality. I think all four of the big kids films should do fine.
Apes is only disappointing if you have crazy expectations for it imo
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2 hours ago, AniNate said:
I don't think any of those examples with the possible exception of Imitation Game is a fair comparison to civil war/challengers. Maybe if Paul Feig or Judd Apatow try to make another theatrical comedy and it bombs, we can have that debate then.
Why aren't they making them though? Not being negative or anything, it's a genuine question.
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6 hours ago, filmnerdjamie said:
Huh, odd choice, could be interesting.
I always think of Constantine seeing him though. I know he's done much more, but that's what stuck with me.
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2 minutes ago, AniNate said:
I can only say I felt both tracking and predictions were a little overzealous about it early on because of the SXSW reactions and the early May "Marvel" release date. Free Guy WW numbers seem most realistic for it, which would still be pretty solid on a $125 mil budget
I'm still very bullish on it and always have been even before any reviews came out simply because it is a movie that I think will work well for the GA.
But Free Guy has always been one of the most used comps for it, as well as The Lost City and Bullet Train.
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On 3/28/2024 at 9:49 AM, Masketta Man said:
Thunderbolts*
*Thunderbolts not included
5 minutes ago, Porthos said:He's already done the predictable joke!*
* unless you were talking about him probably using this joke on every post on this thread, which. seems likely now that I think about it
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1 hour ago, MysteryMovieMogul said:
I mean, I watched to find out how much of a dumpster fire it actually was. I feel like that's what a large portion of those who watched did as well.
Not enough people care about this to do that I think. It was mostly kids and families I bet.
I watched it with my family this weekend, my youngest loved it, we adults thought it was just fine. Then we visited my parents and they were watching it as well with my nephew, they all thought it was just fine as well.
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5 hours ago, Flopped said:
Disney did irreparable damage to moviegoers' viewing habits. The general audience has lost its connection to good movies. For 16 years they were forced-fed Marvel (there is not one rewatchable movie out of all of them), garbage new Star Wars (none of them rewatchable either), and subpar animated films (even Pixar is trash now). Other studios tried to remake themselves in Disney's image. Meanwhile, Netflix serves unwatchable garbage that get clicks because they pay bad actors like Ryan Reynolds or JLo $20-30M and you don't mind that the movies are bad cuz you're watching from home.
So there is now a ceiling on how much a good movie will gross because only a very small % of the population hasn't been tainted by the last 16 years.
Now that Marvel is thankfully over and Disney can't seem to sell water in the desert, maybe audiences will be retrained to not only recognize but want good movies en masse again, but it will take time to undo the last decade and a half.
Holy negativity Batman, are you OK? So much hatred seeping through here, I honestly sometimes worry about people who write negative stuff like that on the internet in a frequent manner.
I know it's just about movies which theoretically in the grand scheme of things is just silly unimportant stuff, but I can't imagine being so vehemently negative about something and being OK in life you know? But that's probably just me I guess.
I'm sure I'm just over-analyzing stuff as usual
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2 hours ago, reddevil19 said:
. I still think theatrical is 100% the way to go, as any box office is better than nothing, with streaming just adding to it rather than being the end goal, but we have to accept that in 2023/2024, the first John Wick would also have been a streaming movie...
Well put. Allow me a counter-argument:
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22 hours ago, emoviefan said:
Voldie said this was testing great and Disney was happy with it. To Counter that Jeff Sneider reported a few weeks later the opposite. Who to believe since you can take things both of these guys say with a grains of salt.
You're better off believing neither of them about testing, ever. I'm pretty sure both of them always have an agenda to push.
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14 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:
I'm quite surprised, I thought from the trailers that it be a relatively short adventure type of movie.
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6 hours ago, titanic2187 said:
I seriously cannot understand what is there to worship for 2016 version Ghostbuster. They are equally blah and meh like GB:A and I don't even bother watching GB: FE.
I do love Chris Hemsworth in it, he's never been more charming than in that movie in my opinion.
1 hour ago, Eric Atreides said:Moderation
Not the Ghostbusters thread. We don’t need to reheat these tired arguments yet again, especially when things are already sparking unnecessary flame wars.
Only saw this now, so edited my post. My bad.
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4 minutes ago, M37 said:
Posted this in the weekday thread on accident
Given the whispers of a potential $30M TFri for GxK, here are the highest single day grosses (excluding previews) since August of last year (following Barbie's second weekend)
- ERAS (Fri 10/13) = $34.87M
- ERAS (Sat 10/14) = $32.23M
- FNAF (Fri 10/27) = $29.35M
- Dune II (Sat 3/02) = $28.71M
- FNAF (Sat 10/28) = $24.28M
- ERAS (Sun 10/15) = $23.32M
- KFP4 (Sat 3/09) = $22.85M
That's the entire list, nothing else over $22M, and three of those were a for an event priced and incredibly fan heavy release (also with no weekday showings (so all business gets crammed into and inflates weekend).
GxK has a decent chance to top all except ERAS on Good Friday. Will also become the 9th highest grossing release of the year after one day, and then be batting GBFE for 4th place for the year by end of the weekend
I keep forgetting how big ERAS’ first weekend was for something that came out of nowhere.
List is a bit depressing to look at by the way, the market has been a bit weak for so long. This month is such a pleasant surprise.
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1 hour ago, dudalb said:
It ended up making 450 Million on a 200 Milllion dollar budget. Which meand it probably barelty broke even or, best case scenario, made a minor profit.
Studios do not spend 200 Million to just break even or make a minor profit.
Expectations etc etc rehash of the last few pages etc etc
Ask 3 years ago if this making 435M would please them and WB executives would be really disappointed with it.
Ask these same executives 6 months ago and they'd probably be quite pleased with this figure all things considered. it is what it is.
10 minutes ago, dallas said:Aquaman 2 was the biggest movie debut on Max since I believe Fantastic Beasts 3. It was higher than even Barbie. Crazy stuff.
It actually feels like this was always going to be big on streaming. It's the type of big silly stuff that some people would decide to skip on theaters but catch on streaming I guess.
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32 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:
Mainland China Forecast
Didn't GvK get 188M there? That's quite a decrease, but I guess every Hollywood thing is getting a decrease there lately right? Oh well, let's hope the rest of the markets pick up the slack.
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That's a bit more than I was expecting considering the tracking thread for the last couple of days, which makes 40M OW more likely, right?
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8 hours ago, poweranimals said:
Same here. I'm only seeing it for Jenna and I too thought it looked good.
They really cast the perfect person for the part, didn't they? Fans of hers in Wednesday will flock to this I think since the vibes should be pretty similar.
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16 hours ago, Elessar said:
I do, too. They go from solid to amazing (i'm not counting AvP). No bad apples, really.
AvP is my favorite.
(not a horror fan)
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On 3/6/2024 at 4:31 PM, TMP said:
I think there's a recent shift in movie-going where people will only see something if it's seen as exceptional. I just... don't know if adding Wolverine and a bunch of cameos from shitty movies no-one outside of reddit remembers is gonna be enough to overcome that fact.
You underestimate nostalgia. Anecdotal as fuck obviously, but when I told my uncle and my father (obviously no redditors) about the Wolverine and the possible Affleck's Daredevil cameos, they told me right away that we all need to go watch it together.
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1 hour ago, ChipDerby said:
The 2016 version remains the best one. Suck it
It's certainly a bit better than Afterlife, but they're both quite forgettable.
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8 hours ago, Porthos said:
Interesting. Pour one out for the Dathomiri:
Got to say, reading shit like this makes my ears perk up in a good... nay, great way. I love it when SW remembers there's more to the Force than Jedi/Sith and if this show is gonna explore some of the underlying concepts of the Jedi amassing too much power and no matter how well intentioned a group is, no group should be the sole arbitrators of power?
Well, this could be My Jam just as much as Andor was, just in a very different way.
Really is a fantastic interview, and I encourage people to read it: https://collider.com/the-acolyte-jedi-clone-wars/
(also talks about the possibility of a Season 2, is this "a four hour movie" and other streaming concerns)
This is good. They really ought to acknowledge more that it makes no sense at all that in the whole universe only the Jedi and the Sith(both sides of the same coin/group basically) would have a monopoly over the entire force.
It has never made much sense, and as was said in the interview, even the lore doesn't support that idea, and yet every "main" movie leans on this idea. It doesn't make sense to narrow your possibilities so much, so it's good that they continue to expand on other force users.
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Captain America: Brave New World | February 14, 2025 | Harrison Ford is General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
in Box Office Discussion
Posted · Edited by Arlborn
When this thread suddenly came alive just now I thought a teaser had dropped or something, or at least some pictures. But no, it's just the exactly same discussion we've had for the past couple of years regarding MCU. Oh well, traditions I guess.
It does make me miss a certain member though.