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The auteur comment seem very strange considering they produced Everything Everywhere All At Once and are happy with how it did, that movie (along with Swiss Army Man) has a very distinctive style that is clearly influenced by the people directing it. The whole interview seems a bit over the top maybe they had a bit too much

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Yeah ANZ is Oceania, hopefully CR taking global rights (outside Asia) doesn't mean they hold it back to give it a global release on the same day or anything crazy like that.

Really hope this doesn't screw ANZ over, Madman was always great at getting these films out in this part of the world before a lot of other English speaking territories.

Hopefully this is more in the realm of quality of Your Name and 5 Centimeters Per Second. The visuals obviously look stunning and I'm intrigued in what the symbolism of the door will be. However I'm getting some Studio Ghibli wannabe vibes which has me worried as Children Who Chase Lost Voices was Shinkai's weakest film in my opinion and that was very much going for that vibe.

Made it easy for people to see, hope you don't mind.

@CJohn reading this one

Fair enough, thank you for adding it to your list in any case.

I rewatched it about 2-3 years ago at this point and enjoyed it much more as an adult than a child/teenager when I had previously seen it, in fact I used to think it was one of the weaker Ghibli films, but it hit a lot harder as a (in some ways) fully grown adult. But anyway film is subjective so if you didn't vibe with it that is all good I'm just throwing all these out there in case anyone who likes this particular set of films has forgotten about them, which why I mainly listed lesser known films expect maybe Cool Runnings and Lost In translation lol.

It is going to be hard to choose only 100 for me. Anyway here are a few FYC while I work on my list (apologies in advance if anyone has already mentioned any of these films) A Better Tomorrow (1986) Dir. John Woo A Silent Voice (2016) Dir. Naoko Yamada Kung Fu Hustle (2004) Dir. Stephen Chow High and Low (1963) Dir. Akira Kurosawa Dangal (2016) Dir. Nitesh Tiwari Queen of Katwe (2016) Dir. Mira Nair Only Yesterday (1991) Dir. Isao Takahata Extreme Job (2019) Dir. Lee Byeong-heon Cool Runnings (1993) Dir. Jon Turteltaub Bicycle Thieves (1948) Dir. Vittorio De Sica Lost in Translation (2003) Dir. Sofia Coppola The Handmaiden (2016) Dir. Park Chan-wook

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He shouldn't get preferential treatment, he aggravated a bunch of people here over the last few months and is paying the price for it.

This quote from the president of Blumhouse pretty much sums it up more succinctly than I can articulate: Abhijay Prakash, president, Blumhouse: “Second, most of these titles are also delivering profitable returns through a business model that manages film costs and captures the residual heat from the theatrical marketing and strong word-of-mouth and converts it into revenue via accelerated downstream windows like PVOD and streaming subscriptions. Though it may not be publicly reported, the underlying economic reality of the business model for these films is that streaming can help sustain theatrical.” Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2022-07-12/wide-shot-box-office-myth-busters-the-wide-shot

Probably a year away from release here as July 12th (12th of July for US folk) is a Wednesday next year. This is my most anticipated movie coming up, can't wait to see it on a massive screen with a bunch of friends even if it will come out in the middle of winter (it was a cold trip to see Thor Love and Thunder last week lol)

Over $50m is 31 days, under $50m is 17 days but that is minimum as Jurassic is 35 days and Black Phone is 21 days (which seems like they pushed them back to Friday releases)

2 very long delayed sequels as well both originally meant to come out 2 years ago, I bet everyone involved in both those films is glad they waited so long.

Haven't done a count but just looked at Event and Hoyts some of the bigger cinemas and Thor seems kind of muted here, kind of weird for a Taika film, although it is the middle of winter here so maybe that is a factor and I haven't been looking at how other films have been doing lately but this seems to be doing less than DS2 and NWH here so far.

He should have shared the video evidence that he was there (and awkwardly not moving an inch 😂)

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Just got Tony on the phone and he is hearing an early range of $30m to $100m for JW3 Saturday.

I'm between two factors with this, on one hand home viewership has been a huge factor since the 80s with VHS and well streaming has made things easier the most popular tapes and eventually discs still sold 10s of millions of copies and you had video rental stores on top of that. On the other hand back in the 90s/early 2000s there was an easy to discern difference between home video (both with tape quality and TV set being small by modern standards CRTs) vs. a massive screen cinema (also smaller by modern standards but not as much as the gap in TV) now we have 4K 55 inch+ TVs that are either affordable or amazing looking if you drop some $$$ (or a projector if you are that way inclined as my friend was when we a bunch of us watched the first 2 episodes of Kenobi on a 120 inch screen with his fancy new Laser projector) and yes a properly calibrated visual and sound system at a cinema will still top these TVs but I feel like the quality and experience is much closer than in years/decades past. I don't think this just impacts kids either, that on top of the fact as I keep saying TV shows look really really good compared to even 10 years ago let alone 20 years ago and that likely has an impact as well.

Kids attention spans is not the issue lol I remember when they said the same about my generation in the 90s when it came to reading books, there are generational shifts in what entertainment is favoured. I have 2 much younger siblings who are between Gen Z and Alpha and they will happily play Roblox/Minecraft/Fortnite whatever for longer than the running time of most films. I've taken the oldest to a few movies Moana (when she was very young) and Dora being the ones a remember and she happily sat through the movie without getting too twitchy. Both of them do prefer to watch at home as they can watch the same movie over and over as happened with Encanto and Turning Red recently and also skip to their favourite scenes of those movies, which is not to dissimilar to what I did with VHS tapes and DVDs back in the day. That said gaming is for sure even more popular than when I was a kid and between that and user generated content on Tik Tok and YouTube those are much more popular ways to pass time than movies and TV for the younger ones.