lorddemaxus

Still not a streaming movie.

The problem is HBO Max so there is less incentive for people to go to the cinemas to watch this, espescially when another major blockbuster is releasing at the same time.

Wb is so fucking stupid. When would this even release internationally? They cannot be thinking of releasing this on the same day as the us date.

Why is Searchlight insisting on taking French Dispatch everywhere when it's very clearly "this had Oscar buzz" at this point. Nightmare Alley will probably entirely skip the festival circuit.

Watch the next Marvel movie to find out!

https://www.whatisthematrix.com/ Marketing is starting

I will choose to take that Reminescence comp.

This is the definition of cherry-picking. You're talking about some critically panned movie distributed by some studio called "LA Telugu" in the US. And I wasn't talking about Indian films in the first place (a market that cannot be compared to the HK and Chinese market considering how many stars and directors from the latter industries broke into Hollywood). All domestic studios have streaming deals to release their films on streaming services months later lol. You're grasping at straws here.

These films get so little marketing and distribution that it's up to me to get these films decent distiribution? Thanks for proving my point I guess.

China and North India aren't the US. There's like a half-the-world distance between the US and these places and it's obviously way more expensive to distribute a film in the US than in somewhere like North India.

Nah, extremely limited releases (to the point that I have to travel 1.5 hours to watch) aren't totally fine. They're not catering to anyone besides a couple of cinephiles who live in urban areas of the country. Like Annette (distributed by Amazon) seemed to get a wider release and that was a arthouse musical. You really think a crowdpleasing HK action film wouldn't draw even a larger audience than that film did?

This is such a weird hypothetical scenario. It's very unlikely a local producer would try to distribute their films internationally just because one of their previous films becomes a hit internationally since it's still expensive for those kinds of studios to try exporting their films to other countries like that. The only one that might reap the rewards is another American distributor and at that point it's no different to how this shit works for Hollywood productions.

Well Go Usa gives them very, very limited releases. I just started off this conversation with a very recent example of this.

Well, can't answer those questions without trying. If a faux-Hong Kong/wuxia action film is able to open to such big levels and more importantly have great WoM, why can't an actual action film from those countries (that are also pretty good crowdpleasers) do well? And we've had actual movies from those countries do well and resonate with a "non-dispora audience" too.

I'm not sure if you're just being intentionally obtuse here, but you do realise none of these studios can afford to buy many films and give them proper theatrical and home video releases right? That is literally my point. I would say the larger Hollywood studios should get in and try to give these films some proper distribution instead of making their own worse try-hard versions of them.

None of the distributors you mentioned are big distributors at all. Well Go USA and Neon? Really? And larger Hollywood studios did a better (still not very good) job distributing Chinese and Hong Kong films (and also introducing directors like Woo, Hark, Chan, Tong into the mainstream) 10-20 years ago than they do today. Crouching Tiger adjusted made close to what Shang-Chi will make today. And "it's not Hollywood's job" is such a bullshit reason. I don't really care lol. All I know is that there clearly would be some demand for these kinds of films that are also far better than most of Hollywood's blockbuster output today.

The success of this film is fine but I think it's bullshit that Hollywood is still unable to give proper distribution to most actual Asian (espescially Chinese and Hong Kong) movie releases. Impossible to watch Raging Fire anywhere and I'd be lucky to watch the new Soi Cheang film legally anywhere for at least another year (luckily someone online sent me the film but it sucks that barely anyone can watch it, and it's also in the wrong aspect ratio).

Would not be surprised if most of those views come from Asian countries, where Venom is huge.

Looks better than I feared. I guess the movie could have weak increases over the next few days and still do really bad, but at least the James Wan's name seems to be helping it a bit right now.

I meant without any red scores (which Joker had loads of). I think the same with Jojo Rabbit. I really doubt any MC critic is actually going to pan Dune. We'll see a bunch more yellows and probably a few more 100s to make up for it.

Note to self: Never read the comments of any tweet related to this movie.

As vanilla as it sounds, Id honestly consider him my favourite (a toss between him and Eastwood for me at this point). Not really for the reasons you mentioned, but he's just such a damn good craftsman and imagemaker (practically no one else in Hollywood today making films that look like his) who still has more energy than directors half his age today.

Praising one of the best and most influential pop-artists of our time is trolling?

In other news, I rewatched Catch Me If You Can tonight. Spielberg the GOAT (throughout the 2000s and 2010s too, sorry haters). Feel like it's time to start rewatching some of Spielberg's stuff. Friend who watched this with me wants to watch Munich so I guess I'll give that a go again (and Spielberg's playing around with the camera here is something I'll never get tired of). Given 10 Spielberg films a 10/10 so far (including today's viewing) and would not be surprised by if I add another one this week.