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Celedhring

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  1. I think my favorite example is Death on the Nile treating us with an extended prologue explaining the origin story of Poirot's moustache.
  2. My perception is that blockbusters became longer in the 2010s and we still live in that world. I ran some quick (and probably dirty) math on the average running time (as stated in BOM) for the Top 10 of several years: 2022: 2h 20m 2012: 2h 20m 2002: 2h 2m 1992: 1h 51m However, after going through the Top 10 for each year, there's a big caveat. In 2012 and 2022 genres that usually clock in at shorter runtimes (comedies in particular) are underrepresented compared to the other two. So I think a lot of this is affected by changing popularity of movie genres - the downfall of comedies and the rise of superhero and epic fantasy films. (I did this in 10 min before making lunch, so don't get angry at me if there's faulty math).
  3. Yeah, an AI doesn't have a sense of what it is writing or - most important - why it is writing it in that particular way, what you want to achieve with every single moving piece of the text. Making decisions (informed by your craftmanship, experience and personal history, emotions, vision, etc...) are the most important part of a creative endeavour imho. Then again, I feel studios are pretty happy with scripts that just look like the same as other scripts. Content culture.
  4. If this one does "just" 400M I think it's getting to the point where they risk losing money with a 3rd if it has a similar drop.
  5. Reminds me of how Netflix also profited from several loopholes in the EU media directives - written when streaming didn't exist - to ignore regulation that applies to regular broadcasters. Thankfully, the directives have finally been updated recently. South Korea should do the same. Now, regarding Netflix ruining the entertainment industry... there's good and there's bad. FWIW, it has revitalized the industry in Spain. However, at the same time, it's pushing down work conditions.
  6. Joe Johnston is no Spielberg (who is?) but he's always excelled at making fun competent adventure films. Jurasic 3, Rocketeer, the original Jumanji, Hidalgo, even the first Cap flick.
  7. Regarding the residuals issue, the unions have been willing to discuss metrics to measure a show's success other that just viewership. The AMPTP just won't entertain it.
  8. Yeah, it's business as usual. When reporting earnings of al listed company (which WBD are) you *must* detail the factors that have influenced each financial item.
  9. Banderas is SAG. But it's all down to whether the production falls under the SAG contract or not. I suspect it doesn't since it's an Euro producer.
  10. Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nothingham is the sole reason to watch that movie. "...and call off Christmas!"
  11. This is nice. Hopefully it's a honest attempt at bargaining and not a PR stunt given all the bad press they're getting.
  12. The book was hugely popular when the film came out, and Pasternak became a bit of a symbol of the Cold War. I agree the movie is one of Lean's lesser works, but its success is not surprising.
  13. They have shut down the Touchstone/Hollywood pipeline, although I suppose Fox is now taking on the role of being the outlet for the kind of movies they'd have released under that. Nonetheless, ten years ago they were still doing stuff like Enchanted, Secretariat, etc... under Disney. I suppose stuff like Mars Needs Moms and John Carter/Lone Ranger soured them on gambling on original projects or unestablished IPs. But it feels like Disney has forgotten how to do live action family movies that are not remakes or based on rides - even if when they have had their share of bombs with these kind of projects, too.
  14. Yeah, I'm betting 90% of people that watched POTC worldwide don't even know it's - supposedly - based off a ride. The whole "based on a ride" provides no boost. I suppose the whole justification of these theme park movies is the obsession with corporate synergy. Disney seems to have become incapable of greenlighting any single live action project that it's not based on existing Disney IP.
  15. It depends. I don't know the production history of Barbie, but if Warner picked the project in turnaround, the usual practice is that some of Sony's sunk costs are passed onto Warner, in exchange of acquiring full rights to the project. EDIT: Doing a bit of research, it seems that Mattel got back the rights and went to Warner. So the project wasn't picked in turnaround - still, there's a decent chance that Warner acquired the rights to previous Barbie scripts as legal protection - I have seen it happen. Anyway, it's one of those "we'll probably never know" things.
  16. Personally, I don't care about shitty effects in movies if said movies are good (and the LOTR movies are great), but there's something about late 1990s-early 2000s CGI that amps up the uncanny valley-ness. It's more an issue in ROTK because of all the CGI armies, though.
  17. The LOTR trilogy is one of the most memorable moviegoing experiences in my lifetime. It hit me at the right age (in my early 20s), at a time where big budget fantasy/sci-fi movies were still uncommon, and it was the rare ocasion where the film's quality managed to match and exceed the hype. I only worry that the CGI has - understandably - not aged well and it won't look supergreat on a PLF screen.
  18. From the article: The deal was reached prior to the writers strike.
  19. What a great movie that was. As you say, it went about its themes so smartly and with such nuance. I can perfectly understand why it bombed - but at the same time it makes me sad.
  20. The inevitable Avengers nostalgia reunion film sometime in the late 2030s will break the world.
  21. The unadjusted streak should be doable, though.
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