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3 hours ago, grim22 said:
This is the same picture with an awkwardly photoshopped hand
That suit looks like it was made by AI. I can't believe this pile of garbage is the last movie out during my winter break.
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1 minute ago, SchumacherFTW said:
He works for one of the chains.
Used to be a member here and provided early numbers, before he got on his high horse and started harassing the mods and got permabanned.
Don't forget the epilogue where he tried to sneak back in through an alternative account named CREED B JORDAN or something like that in, I think, around March of last year. The moderators would find out and kick him back out shortly afterwards though. I wonder how they connected the dots, because I don't remember any posts from said account.
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19 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:
Was it...is it not just a readapted version of the books again?
Also, Warner Bros is saying "nice try JJ Abrams but you gotta make something"
Colour Purple's steep decline might have them second guessing this one methinks.
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26 minutes ago, HummingLemon496 said:
Is "Deadpool 3" the actual title or is it just a placeholder and we'll get the full title with the trailer?
It's seemingly the latter, as Disney's official release schedule refers to it as "Untitled Deadpool Movie", or something like that. Eerily similar to how Fox didn't give out a final title for Deadpool 2 for the longest of time.
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7 hours ago, HummingLemon496 said:
My current prediction for this (if it earns an A like GOTG 3/NWH and lot a B like MoM/QM) is $115M/$300M/$700M. It would've been an easy $200M/$525M/$1175M if released in May 2022.
The reason is brand damage from Multiverse of Madness, Love and Thunder, Quantumania, and now The Marvels. Guardians opened to $118M in May 2023.. . which is bad, really bad. But it would've easily opened to $200M+ and done $500M+ total back in May 2022.
It's crazy how much damage 3 B range grades can do to a franchise.
I get where you're coming from, but this movie has a fantastic selling point in Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool finally meeting Hugh Jackman's iconic Wolverine, two characters who are institutions of their own, who can thrive even when the larger Marvel universe is in decay. Just look at how the standalone Batman and Joker movies, which are based on similarly huge characters, performed compared to the mainline DC movies of the past 5 years. That factor will help it greatly. As long as the movie lives up to the first two Deadpool adventures, it has a decent shot at being Disney's first billion dollar Marvel movie since Endgame back in 2019.
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7 minutes ago, Kon said:
I know this is a general thread to speak about anything, but I have no idea what people are speaking about on the last posts.
It's a Sunday in a mostly American community, and on a slow weekend without anything new to talk about. Naturally there will be a ton of football/baseball/sports talk us foreigners won't get. You get used to it after a while.
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2 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:
Why is No Way Home not a "pure" Marvel movie? Its success along with the Spider-Verse films is literally the blueprint for this movie.
I'm referring to that being distributed by Sony, while the rest of the lineup is distributed by Disney. In that sense, the last billion dollar Marvel movie released by Disney was Endgame back in 2019.
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7 hours ago, SpiderByte said:
Very curious to see how the hell they top the prison fight from season 3. Just bar doing an entire episode in one take I don't see how else they could
They won't be able to unless they get the directors and writers responsible for all the best moments. This new series should do its own thing, and be a great Daredevil adaptation all on its own, which it can be with the right talent without needing to live up to the behemoth that is the Netflix series.
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5 hours ago, Valonqar said:
Bingo. It feels like a money laundering scheme that that made for TV thing had 250M budget after a tax break! So originally more than that and even covid cannot explain how the heck it looked like a Canadian sci fi (the lowest of sci fi) on such a big budget. TV characters, TV quality of visuals, TV pilot plot.
This was a movie that Marvel had no idea what to do with, and tried reshooting and recutting to hell and back until they eventually just gave up on it. As I've said elsewhere, if they truly had faith then this would be out this year, not last year during the strike.
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King of the Monsters is one of the biggest dual edged swords on film to date. On one hand, the monster scenes are spectacular, with each of them having distinct and memorable personalities that shine through in their designs, facial expressions and movements. Dougherty understood the importance of that, and that's why they're the best parts of the movie. Unfortunately, the actual story surrounding them is pretentious drivel full of unlikable and/or insufferable clowns. One of them is even basically Rick Sanchez, a guy who shouldn't be anywhere near a movie that wants to take itself seriously and be a deep statement on climate change and the like. For all its faults, the 2014 reboot was not all that bad, just dull whenever Goji wasn't around after Heisenberg bites it.
There's a reason why Wingard is the only one who returned for a second helping, because he focused on what this franchise does best: awe, spectacle and exploration. That's what works about Skull Island, Godzilla vs Kong and the best episodes of Monarch. I went out of his movie far happier than Dougherty's, and am very pleased to see him back at the helm for another one. Hopefully he delivers again!
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8 hours ago, SpiderByte said:
Oh man, that's...just a perfect mask.
No wonder why Marvel's solely focusing on this one for the year. It's their biggest surefire hit in ages. Two huge characters who can stand on their own even when the larger Marvel brand is on the brink finally meet, and the latter is bringing his iconic suit with him for the first time ever in live action, complete with the actors who made them household names bringing them to life once more and the same writers who made the first two Deadpool movies hit the zeitgeist returning as well. If this one is even remotely good I can actually see it reach the billion dollar mark, which would be the first time a pure Marvel movie gets there in half a decade. The only question now is whether this or Jonkler 2 is going to be the biggest movie of the year.
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2 hours ago, filmlover said:
We already had an unofficial Superman horror movie just 5 years ago (produced by James Gunn!). If only it hadn't immediately fallen into the cinematic ether.
A lot of movies coming out around that time suffered the same fate, thanks to the crushing weight of Disney at its peak. They always had something to choke the competition to death every month, be it Captain Marvel, Endgame, Aladdin, Toy Story 4 and Lion King. Most non-Disney movies like Godzilla 2, Detective Pikachu, Men in Black International and Pets 2 among others either underperformed or bombed. We're definitely never seeing that level of pop culture domination again, as evidenced by that very behemoth now being anything but.
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It sounds like neither this nor Fantastic Four are going to make it to next year, with filming for that one being pushed back late into this year and this one struggling to fill in a major villain role. Blade is also a major question mark as we haven't heard anything major on that in a while. I'm thinking both Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts get pushed back to 2026 while
Joss2ce LeagueCaptain America 4 heads to May of next year. Blade can go either way, but the recent reports about it having a modest sub-$100M budget tell me it won't need anywhere near as much postproduction work as your average Marvel tentpole, so as long as cameras get rolling on that this year they can get it done for that November 2025 slot still. -
3 hours ago, Kon said:
The Color Purple was a little less than predictions.
A movie like this not even reaching half a million on Marting Luther King's birthday is just depressing. I just feel bad for everyone involved especially after hearing about all the production issues.
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4 minutes ago, Brainbug said:
Yeah, last episode of Monarch was really good and overall made all of it worthwile imo. Even though one aspect of it all doesnt make sense to me still
The whole time is different in the hollow earth thing when that aspect of it didnt play any role whatsoever in Godzilla vs Kong
I also appreciate that they definetly tried to make more interesting and compelling human characters/drama, even if a lot of it was messy and underwritten. But i dont want to sound too negative, since i do think the series has a very strong start, a messy middle and a strong finish. I certainly woudnt complain about a Season 2.
SpoilerI got the impression it was a transitional area between our world and the Hollow Earth, with its own rules and everything, hence all the "between heaven and Earth" talk. It doesn't look like it's the same area from Godzilla vs Kong. They definitely could've explained it a lot better though.
With the series not having much of a pulse whenever Godzilla isn't on screen I'm not sure if we'll get another season. If we do, I'm still hoping for a creative refresh, or at least to have Fraction and/or Black writing the entire series. I want a more consistently great story next time, one which doesn't have a lot of the issues the first two Godzilla movies had. I also want a stronger creature lineup and maybe some more Toho characters, but if they insist on this being an interquel they are really boxing themselves in.
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1 minute ago, grim22 said:
I can't read Japanese, but a wall of text from Hideo is basically a seal of approval. These final two episodes seriously turned it around for me, even if the series as a whole was a wildly uneven mess. Hopefully he produces an even bigger wall of text when New Empire is out in Japan.
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2 minutes ago, Noctis said:
OW for WW2 in a world without Covid would have had an OW of $150m+. An easy $330m+ grosser at the absolute minimum.
I'd downgrade that opening to around $130M, and the total to $250M or so. In a normal world it would've had atrocious word of mouth and been the second coming of Batman v Superman. It pretty much ended Patty Jenkins's career in the world we ended up in. That says something.
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33 minutes ago, Valonqar said:
Hutchersonaissance is real. Turns FNAF into a megahit. Saves Beekeeper. Low key saves BOSAS by association. His powah:
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41 minutes ago, Speedorito said:
B Cinemascore for Mean Girls confirmed. Plus a 72% verified audience score. The original will remain iconic.
Ouch. The Batman v Superman of musicals has arrived. Do you all remember when that movie's huge drop was once in a lifetime? Now we get a bunch of those every year.
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1 hour ago, lorddemaxus said:
Rewatched this last night. Might be my favourite Mission Impossible tbh.
In other news, movie might be 25 mil+ in the red: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-tom-cruise-new-deal-1235785619/
This explains why Cruise jumped ship to Warner. Paramount likely doesn't want him anymore after how much of a letdown Dead Reckoning was for them. He's lucky the next one was as far along as it was before the strikes, because otherwise I feel the plug would have been pulled on that last year. But that one will be the end of an era to be sure.
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24 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:
I don't have much interest in Hollywood's platform shenanigans anymore. Wide release your goddamn movies or get out. At this point not seeing Poor Things/American Fiction playing near me has pissed me off more than seeing them would actually make me happy.
Amen, especially as a foreigner. 95% of these serious prestige movies are similarly restricted to megacities here, and my area never gets them.
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40 minutes ago, movies!movies! said:
This is likely because of the sudden Mandalorian movie announcement. Lucasfilm will need him for that if they are to film this year, so this one is likely being pushed to later in the year to accomodate his updated schedule.
39 minutes ago, Belakor said:Another pre-production hell movie, they have been casting for 4 years now. I wonder what shit show is behind the scenes.
I mean, it's not like they need a perfect match, the film is not a Shakespeare adaptation or anything like that.
After Marvel's recent woes I can see a lot of talent being highly reluctant to sign on to what they might see as a sinking ship. I still think that factored into Steven Yeun's recent departure.
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1 hour ago, SpiderByte said:
That Can We Get Some Toast person posted this promo art of the Wolverine mask, then this person mirrored the image to get this and...man.
This looks fucking GOOOOOD
Seeing Hugh with the iconic mask will be worth it for sure! Hopefully this one will be more like No Way Home than the Flash movie.
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5 minutes ago, dallas said:
It's hilarious that Aquaman, the movie Warner Bros left to die is now set to become the highest grossing DCEU movie of the past 5 years. If WB put actual effort into this movie's marketing, it may have actually gotten close to breaking even.
Even if they did market it properly, everyone in our always-on social media age would still be aware of the impending reboot, and the movie being a boring slog lacking the charm of the original would've been a handicap.
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95% of these Marvel movies tend to be PG-13, so that's what it'll most likely get.