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The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread (December 2021 - July 2023)
WittyUsername replied to Cap's topic in Numbers and Data
A $10 million OW for a re-release of a movie from 2009 would be insane in today’s landscape. -
I don’t think it’s a lie to call this movie “bold.” It’s a film that basically gives the middle finger to the very company that financed it. Lana Wachowski made a firm statement with this movie, without any concern for how general audiences would respond to it. I’d say that’s pretty bold, regardless of what one thinks about the quality of the film.
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Makes sense. Attach exclusive scenes from the movie to the re-release, and attach the main trailer to Black Panther.
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At least if Henry Cavill comes back, they can finally stop with all these faceless cameos, and we wouldn’t have to deal with the backlash of Supergirl replacing him, but would we actually get a new Superman movie out of it? Because I’m still not sure how that’s supposed to work, if they’re stuck using the version Snyder created.
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In the case of Top Gun, the original film has always been seen as a fairly iconic piece of 80s pop culture history, so right off the bat, the sequel had 80s nostalgia going for it. TGM basically managed to be Black Panther for Boomers. It’s the ultimate feel-good movie for people who long for “the good old days,” which is especially poignant in a post-COVID world. I don’t think an Avatar sequel will be able to rely on nostalgia, so its best bet will be to replicate what made the original film so successful; the immersive alien world. That was ultimately the big strength of the first one, which was why the 3D was such a big selling point.
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Is there concrete evidence to support the idea that Avatar is owned by James Cameron, and that if he wanted to, he could take the franchise elsewhere?
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For one, most of the “Middle Eastern” people in the first movie are actually white people in brownface. Then you have the depiction of Indian culture in Temple of Doom, which has been talked about ad nauseum. On another note, Indy canonically first got involved with Marion when she was a teenager (15 to be exact), which the first movie actually alludes to. To be clear, I’m aware that the Indiana Jones movies are meant to be silly throwbacks to the pulp movies that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas grew up on, which may help explain some of these things. I’m just saying that they don’t fit particularly well with the squeaky clean image that Disney always tries so hard to project.
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I don’t see any problem with attaching the full trailer to the re-release of the first movie, assuming that’s the plan.