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    Weekend Thread | Birds of Prey $33.25M Weekend

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    How much of it is the marketing itself, instead of the film not leaving enough for the marketing? I think it's the film's portrayal of these characters causing the issues. It takes these interesting characters (with potential marketing power) and strips them down to realistic, gritty versions of themselves. Aside from Harley, what's the difference between Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya? Two are badass women in leather and the other is a badass woman with a leather jacket. And Cassandra Cain is a little kid in an R-Rated film. 

     

    Kind of a far cry from Guardians and Suicide Squad. Guardians had a wise-cracking Solo type, a badass woman in leather (but in green), an unhinged muscular alien, and a talking raccoon and tree. Suicide Squad had Will Smith as an assassin with a white mask and scope eye-patch, a human crocodile hybrid, a witch, a Mexican tatted up gangster with flamethrower hands, an iconic crazy clown couple, a wise-cracking Australian, and the straight man to balance everything out. Marketing team for both films had a field day. 

     

    BoP takes a platinum blonde in fishnets and strips that away (Canary). A detective in a fedora and faceless mask and strips that away (Montoya). The silent, ninja-assassin adopted daughter of Batman and, you guessed it, strips that away (Cassandra Cain). Only Huntress resembles her comic counter-part, but she never visually stood out anyway. I'm not arguing that comic accuracy would've put butts in seats, but the film chooses to change everything iconic and marketable about these characters. 

     

    Imagine if Wonder Woman wore her 90's leather jacket look instead of her iconic armor? Or Captain Marvel wore her Air Force outfit instead? Yeah you gotta make sure the characters are good in the film, but you also have to give people a reason to show up to said film. From a marketing standpoint, this film suffers by going the Marvel Netflix route. 

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    Predator | 14th September, 2018 | Shane Black to Co-Write and Direct

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    http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-the-predator-shane-black-steven-wilder-striegel-20180906-story.html

     

    Shane Black gave his friend, a convicted sexual offender, a minor role in the Predator where he repeatedly hits on Olivia Munn's character. Munn found out his past, brought it up to Fox and now Fox is ordering that he be cut from the movie. 

     

    What was Black thinking? 

    Academy Awards adding a "Best Popular Film" category. Good or bad idea? Academy walks it back, won't be presented this year

    in Box Office Discussion

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    22 minutes ago, Pandamia! said:

    Pretty much it’s a “Favorite movie over x DOM/WW” award.  I’d reckon it’ll be a 150m cut-off (potentially even 100m)

     

    Other years would have looked something like this

     

    2017

    1. Get Out

    2. Dunkirk

    3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    4. Logan

    5. Wonder Woman

     

    2016

    1. La La Land

    2. Hidden Figures

    3. Zootopia

    4. Deadpool

    5. Rogue One

     

    2015

    1. Mad Max: Fury Road

    2. The Martian

    3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

    4. Inside Out

    5. Straight Outta Compton

    Imagine if they had this award when Titanic and Return of the King were nominated. 

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    Academy Awards adding a "Best Popular Film" category. Good or bad idea? Academy walks it back, won't be presented this year

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    This might open up a can of worms for Best Director. If Blockbusters have their own category, then what makes what the director's for the "smaller" films better? Could anyone nominated out-direct the Russo Bros, Christopher McQuarrie, Ryan Coogler this year? 

     

    There's an argument that any "Oscar" nominated director's couldn't do what thry did. 

    Terminator: Dark Fate | Nov 1 2019 | Estimated to lose 122.6M

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    Posted · Edited by GambitPool

    T3 Releases:

     

    "This is the true sequel to T2."

     

    Salvation Releases:

     

    "This is the true sequel to T2."

     

    Genisys Releases:

     

    "This is the true sequel to T2."

     

    Soon to be Released Terminator Reboot:

     

    "This is the true sequel to T2."

     

    Terminator Infinite - 50 years from now: 

     

    "This is the true sequel to T2."

     

    Fucking hamster wheel. 

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