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25 minutes ago, franfar said:
One more month until he gets out of purgatory, right?
I'm glad I have him on ignore as I couldn't handle constant bolded text and capital letters that were his posts
Wonder how long it'll be until he's back in purgatory?
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I wonder what's the personal loss that Michael Banks suffers, if I was to guess I would say
his wife dies
putting my speculation in spoiler tag in case it turns out to be true
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6 minutes ago, CJohn said:
Unsure if X-Force, Deadpool and New Mutants is enough to renew the X-Men rights or they have to make a movie called X-Men involving a certain group of characters every few years.
I think spin-offs would be enough for Fox to keep the rights not to mention the TV series like Legion.
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Logan was very good although it was more in the vein of a western like True Grit and Unforgiven which isn't too surprising considering James Mangold directed 3.10 to Yuma. It's a great sendoff's to Jackman's Logan/Wolverine.
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10 minutes ago, filmlover said:
The problem with that movie was that it mostly just felt "been there, done that." Franchise was definitely starting to show its age in that particular installment.
I agree, it was fine but not great but still not the worse X-Men film, that honour belongs to Origins
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Deapool was done on a low budget so Fox would have been happy had it done $300-400m WW and Hugh Jackman has a lot of clout so if he wasn't happy with how Logan was going, he was going to walk.
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3 minutes ago, Hatebox said:
Snyder seemed to get away with turning Batman into a nihilistic, murderous dickhead for a PG-13 movie, so I'm not sure how much the character needs an R-rated movie anyway.
Certain Batman stories like The Killing Joke and The Dark Knight Returns needed to be higher rated but most Batman stories can get away with the PG-13 rating.
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3 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:
DC cannot do it for their marquee characters and franchises. BvS was the third highest selling toy merchandise of 2016 behind Trolls and Dory so they hanging on to those family accessible PG-13's. Fox cannot make money off X-Men merch so they can do whatever they want with the movie ratings.
Suicide Squad was rated 15 in the UK which is the equivalent to an R but I suspect that was more to with violence as the BBFC are way more strict on it. I could see SS2 being R rated, possibly Gotham City Sirens and maybe Dark Universe but anything else is a no no but WB/DC has the Vertigo line for more mature content.
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Travis Knight is a very interesting choice but risky considering he's only directed one film. He doesn't need the money so I wonder why he's chosen to direct it
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1 hour ago, NoobSaibot said:
Universal can definitely weather it. But Legendary needs some successes, badly.
Universal doesn't need Legendary anymore, they've already got financier in place with Perfect World and they've got plenty of hits
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30 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:
Legendary will lose $75M and Universal $10M on The Great Wall lol.
http://movieweb.com/great-wall-movie-bombs-loses-75-million-matt-damon/
I've been saying someone should have put a lid on Thomas Tull a long time ago. This is just another example how he shouldn't have been running a studio in the first place.
Tull and Kavanaugh are good example of why financiers shouldn't run studios, investing in a film is fine or be more like Megan Ellison where she funds risky films. Luckily Universal can weather the loss of The Great Wall thanks to the success of Split and Get Out.
You can bet once the Universal deal expires, it's not being renewed..
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2 minutes ago, Krissykins said:
Yeh it will.
Weinstein sold Scream 4 to it's international territories.
It can be very lucrative and safer than releasing it alone.
Most mini-majors like Lionsgate, TWC, DreamWorks SKG etc don't have the resources to release and market a film overseas so it's cheaper and more cost effective to sell it to a local distributor which means the budget can be mostly recouped before the film is released, the downside is that if a film is a OS success but not a domestic success then the studios won't see a penny of that money.
The most infamous example was New Line Cinema and The Golden Compass which made $70m domestic but $300m OS but NLC sold the OS rights so it didn't help at all and was the reason why the studio folded into Warner Bros.
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1 minute ago, Krissykins said:
Yeh, would be interesting to see how much they generated in pre-sales to offset their costs.
It's difficult to know because I suspect it varies depending on the distributor and country,
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Lionsgate isn't going to see any of the OS money apart from UK so it really needs to do well in the US and UK markets as well as being a decent success for the local distributors.
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Can't believe Lego Batman is only slightly behind Despite Sings's bigger opening, even if it only gets to £25-26m, it's still a big success.
Logan, £9-10m seems likely, I imagine it could get to £30m total which might be tricky with the huge competition in March. I have a feeling Kong is going to be squeezed as its released in between Logan and Beauty and the Beast
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Just now, Telemachos said:
It's truly crazy.
You would think after Miss Universe and now the Oscars, award organisers are going to try and not have cock ups like this happens at their shows.
On the plus side, it's going to give award hosts material for this year's Tony's, Emmys etc
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If it happened during Zootopia's win and they announced Kubo had actually won, cannastop would have gone full on Blanks...
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Just now, That One Guy said:
Lion is 100% gonna be forgotten, that's for sure. Okay folks, with the win of Spotlight and Moonlight for the last two years, expect Fist Fight to be our best picture winner next year.
Poor Weinstein, least the film has been commercially successfully.
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Just now, franfar said:
Absolutely brutal.
Most movies would kill for the success of LLL. The producer handled it better than most people would, which made me gain a lot of respect and sympathy. I think I may watch the movie sometime.
True, they not only have critical acclaim and a boatload of awards but they'll still benefit from the boost financially since it's still playing and I imagine it'll do a ell on home entertainment, VOD and TV airings so Lionsgate will benefit for years to come
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La La Land still won 6 awards it would have been nice to win Best Picture but it doesn't take away from the fact it had a good night overall.
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Jimmy might be pissed tonight but it's given him some great material for his monologue tomorrow.
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You can bet they won't be having older actors doing the BP envelope opening next year and they'll have the envelope with huge letters as well
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Just now, DAR said:
I know people say they feel bad for LLL but I'm not sure why. It's won a ton awards and is a massive box office hit. It's in a place most films would kill for.
Lionsgate had a great night overall, despite not winning BP La La Land is a huge hit for them critically and financially
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout | July 27 2018 | Paramount | Reactions coming in | "Best action movie since Fury Road"
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Maybe Kirby is not part of IMF,