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1 hour ago, John Marston said:
So basically, now Pixar movies will be animated by foreign studios with poor working conditions?
Also, wait, Walt Disney animation didn’t do things in-house?
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8 minutes ago, HummingLemon496 said:
Most people on box office forums agree it's miserable. Though for me the internet doesn't appreciate how damn huge TLJ's 220M debut is.
And also speaking of TFA, NWH opened higher but only because of inflation. In terms of admits I think it's like 22.6M NWH vs 23.8M TFA.
Not only was the hype for TFA absolutely insane (Star Wars as a brand was completely inescapable in the last few months of 2015), but it came out at a far healthier time for movie theaters compared to when NWH released.
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I have no clue how this will turn out, but hey, kudos to The Rock for finally stepping out of his comfort zone. Everyone was ragging on him for playing basically the same role in every movie, so this is clearly uncharted territory for him, and to think all it took was for Black Adam to flop. The thought of him campaigning for an Oscar somehow sounds more out there than him running for President though.
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Is Trump not familiar with the Streisand Effect?
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59 minutes ago, AniNate said:
Technically it's not the first time they've been together, but no one wants to remember the other one
I'm sure they'll make some kind of joke about that here though
They already made a bunch of jokes about it in the first two movies, especially that one mid-credits scene in the second. What more is there to say?
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5 minutes ago, ChipDerby said:
3D is awesome actually. Y'all can sod off
Not if it wasn’t filmed for 3D. It’s a gimmick most of the time.
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3D is still a thing studios are trying to push? Marvel must not be taking any chances here.
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1 hour ago, KGPatt2 said:
Do you guys think Mae had the Simian Flu at the end, and that's why she wasn't allowed back in the compound? Was it a "suicide" mission?
I thought the idea was that she and Treviathan were immune.
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This being the highest grossing R-rated movie isn’t a foregone conclusion right now. That remains to be seen.
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Is it safe to assume to at this point that the next Spider-Man movie won’t be coming out next year?
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July is really crowded now.
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At this point, I think critical raves would’ve been more boring for this than polarizing reviews or even overwhelmingly negative ones.
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I don’t understand why standing ovations need to last so long to begin with. I can’t imagine clapping for six to eight minutes straight.
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It sure will be interesting to see if this and Jurassic World 4 make their current release dates.
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These reviews seem fine so far to me, especially compared to the early reviews for Indy 5 last year.
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Maybe it’s just because I’ve skimmed over the last few pages, but what’s with the ageism accusations I’ve been seeing here? Are people trying to suggest that calling out Coppola for (allegedly) not understanding boundaries is ageist?
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Regarding Coppola’s alleged behavior, I wouldn’t say I’d be surprised at the idea that Coppola is a dirty old man. He is the same guy who went to bat for Victor Salva. With that said, it also wouldn’t surprise me if these stories about him harassing female actors and being generally unprofessional were planted by someone in the industry to set a particular narrative.
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7 minutes ago, dudalb said:
I see the Snyderites have hijacked this thread.
5 hours ago, Eric the IF said:Moderation
Not the Zack Snyder thread.
Sometimes I wonder if you’re a bot.
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10 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:
I mean he's said he wants to make The Fountainhead into a movie
He also said that he doesn’t agree with Ayn Rand’s philosophy, and there’s really nothing about his filmography that’s particularly “Randian”. A major theme in his movies is self-sacrifice, which goes completely against Ayn Rand’s ideals.
Snyder said that he likes The Fountainhead specifically for its statements about what it means to be an artist who never compromises. He also said that he no longer intends to make the movie because he believes it’s not the right time for something like that. The idea that he loves Ayn Rand was a narrative that Devin Faraci spread back in 2016.
That’s all I’ll say on the matter, because I know that derailing this thread with a topic like that is bound to get me in trouble, if it hasn’t already.
Anyway, this movie looks interesting, but I can see why studios would be hesitant to distribute it. It doesn’t look like something with much mainstream appeal, and I would t expect it to be a big Oscar winner.
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7 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:
It honestly kind of seems to be going for a weird Atlas Shrugged vibe and aesthetic, so Snyder actually kind of tracks given that fascist Randian stuff seems to be his whole deal. Obviously don't think it's going to be a Snyder quality film lol.
Sigh
I see that narrative’s not going to die out anytime soon.
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I sincerely hope that Christopher Nolan avoids doing sequels and stays away from franchises moving forward. Batman was an important step in getting his foot in the door in the realm of blockbuster filming, but he no longer needs to confine himself to that stuff.
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18 minutes ago, Porthos said:
No?
Disney would be in a much worse position if it didn't have Disney Plus right now. Look over at, say, Paramount and how it's trying to scramble with its much lower tier streaming platform. Or how Comcast is doing with Peacock. Or, hell, Sony which has practically nothing.
What they might regret is how they tried to chase after Netflix and commit too many resources to going "all in". But then again the entire industry fucked up by trying to copy Netflix, leading to — or at least accelerating — the shift from one of the most profitable business models the US entertainment system ever had (the multichannel bundle) to a very much less profitable one.
The fallout from the shift from where 85% of all households in the US had some form of multichannel bundle to the massive market fragmentation where everyone is fending for themselves (even with an occasional superbundle like the Disney/Max one thrown in) is gonna be felt for a looooooooong time.
Anyway, Disney Plus's undeniable strength is in its legacy programming/library. Where it is falling down is getting a reliable set of *NEW* programming on a regular basis.
That was what I was primarily referring to? The whole reason all these streaming services exist in the first place is because these companies tried to chase the Netflix model, and it backfired spectacularly. It’s gotten to the point where they’re starting to do bundles.
I obviously wasn’t suggesting that Iger would kill Disney+, if that’s what you inexplicably thought I was implying. I’m aware that doing something like that would be even more disastrous at this point.
The Fantastic Four - First Steps | Marvel Studios | July 25, 2025 | Matt Shakman directs
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Filming is supposed to start in July. I don’t know if that’ll give them enough time in post to make the July date, but DP&W was supposed to be released in May before the SAG strike, and finished filming just this past January, so who knows?