Joel M

it's gonna be Far Cry with an avatar skin by the looks of it.

1.Spirited Away 2.Castle in the Sky 3.Mononoke 4.Totoro 5.Porco Rosso 6.Wind Rises 7.Kiki's delivery service 8.Howl's Moving Castle 9.Ponyo 10.Castle of Cagliostro 11.Nausicaa he hasn't made a bad one yet.

Like I already said It would be stupid to put this in adapted while every other movie adapting real people and events is considered original.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Wolf alongside Departed are the two most beloved/iconic Scorsese movies this century. Doesn't mean they are "objectively" the best or anything, but they are the most well remembered. I'm not the biggest fan of Casino myself, but it is certainly way more iconic and beloved than other 80-90s scorsese movies I think are way better.

Sure but the sequels came more than a decade later after the first movie had become kind of memory holed despite being a huge hit. A sequel in 2006 could have made 159m instead of the 59m it did in 2016.

Chazelle came through

Yeah the Whale did shockingly good here.

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Chazelle better rig the jury and give this Golden Lion.

Great early reactions especially for Stone.

Nice, never made sense for something this big to start with a limited release in October. It would only work if it was the Christmas-to-early January corridor than many big awards movies have done succesfully. The only question mark remaining is the theatrical window. I hope it's at least bigger than Air.

The movie got some of the most disastrous legs of all time after opening 20m under projections. If you wanna pin this on Miller, I guess fine. I'm just not buying it.

I don't think the movie is that bad but the notion it bombed mostly because of Ezra Miller is pure science fiction. He's not even well-known enough to tank a movie this big. He's an Ansel Elgort with WWS, definately hurt the promo and the general excitiment around the movie a good amount, but the interest was just never there. We are talking about a movie that opened way below already lowered expectations and then continued to crash and burn until it was essentially out of theatres in a month.

I think we might be giving tiktok a bit too much credit for Barbenheimer. The whole thing started on twitter on spring 2022 when the release dates were set and got a bit bigger online in general everytime there was a new bit about each movie for over a year until it snowballed after the marketing cycle really started this summer. That's why it isn't replicable with a Wonkapoleon or Saw Patrol or whatever. There was more than a year of people getting slowly convinced that it 'll be fun to watch both of these wildly different movies that come out on the same day. Gentleminions in contrast was much more of tiktok thing. Most people that weren't on tiktok and under 20 had no idea why teens started showing up in theatres dressed in suits. Barbenheimer already had a full wikipedia page 2 weeks before the movies came out.

Finally watched and it's one of Nolan's best movies. The movie and its rhythm consumed me from the get go. It all just clicks so well together even the last hour, everyone (and I mean everyone) is so good in it, I barely noticed how long it is. Despite the rave reviews I never really loved Dunkirk, and thought this one might also not be an ideal project for Nolan, but in retrospect it fits like a glove with his sensibilities. Need to see it again asap.

So it's gonna be another six months of "Dune wasn't really liked and covid actually helped it" in here. Thanks Zaslav.

I don't really know since everyone here is reporting tickets not gross, but I don't think is that high. Avg. ticket in most theatres is between 7,5-8,5 euros and half of that on Wednesdays. For IMAX(mostly liemax) it's 10-11 euros but there are just a handfull of those screens. I would assume ATP wouldn't be more than 8,5 euros.

https://freecinema.gr/greek-box-office-three-august-reports-in-one-with-barbie-conquering/ https://flix.gr/news/box-office-17-08-2023.html There were no reports for the first 2 weeks of August because even local distributor companies go on vacation so we get all the numbers after this weekend. Barbie held very strong as expected despite the very low attendance this two weeks historically get every year and it is already at 392.401 admissions after a 14.484 adm. 5th weekend. Greece post-pandemic top-10 1. SM: No Way Home 465.892 admissions 2. Avatar 2 422.811 3. Barbie 392.401 4. Minions: Rise of Gru 345.671 5. No Time To Die 311.675 6. Man of God GR 283.073 7. Top Gun: Maverick 282.985 8. My Beloved Smyrna GR 268.927 9. The Batman 263.333 10. Dr. Strange MOM 233.539 Barbie will most likely pass Avatar 2, but probably not catching Spider-Man. Still incredible result. Also Oppenheimer finally opens this Thursday.

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Where do you see How Do You Live ending up? All I understand so far is that it aint coming close to 100m.

I would have more faith in Poor Things if that was the release plan all along. Even after Majors tanked Magazine Dreams early in the year, the plan for Poor Things still seemed like a glitzy premiere at Venice and then letting it sink or swim on its own before oscar season really kicks in. It only ended up with a prime release date and all the festivals because of the strikes. It might just be too weird to be a real player.

Cameron should start planting articles online with titles like "Does anyone care for an Avatar 3?" just for good luck.

I think people underestimate how big a part the soundtracks played in the success of the renaissance big-3 live actions. The entire world knows these songs back and forth, they were the equivalent of big set pieces and money shots that people came to see. People still love Mufasa and the Genie but the interest in a TLK prequel that doesn't have Circle of Life or a (seemingly already canceled) Aladdin 2 without a Friend Like Me drops dramatically.

Shakespeare in Love would be considered one of the best rom coms of the 90s if it hadn't won all these oscars imo. It would probably get a big blacklash if it won any other year just because "unimportant" movies get the most hate when they 're put on pedestal. But winning against a genre-defining classic and with the way it won with all thoses infamous Weinstein backstage shenanigans, it has become the poster boy of everything wrong with the oscars. Even if way worse movies have won before and after it.

I finally watched Sorcerer for the first time a couple nights ago after seeing it getting championed online for the past decade and it absolutely deserves the hype. Phenomenal movie. To Live and Die in LA is also another banger from him that was a flop in its time.