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    WGA/SAGAFTRA Strike Discussion Thread | SAG Ratifies Contract

    in The Speakeasy

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    8 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

    Lol, that coming right off of him admitting how poor their box office slate has been this year. He obviously saw the receipts and realized the company is in no position right now for him to be making comments that will hurt their public image even more, like he was. 

    I still believe these strikes could tomorrow if he went to his fellow CEO's and said yeah this is stupid let's offer a fair deal and then tell Netflix to go pound sand. Not that simple but still. 

    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | July 12 2023 | 99% on Rotten Tomatoes! | 290M budget so far, Cruise holding Paramount hostage for more money

    in Box Office Discussion

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    56 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

    He makes a good point. People that want to watch Mission Impossible will watch it at some point. The thing about this franchise is that is never had a massive dedicated on the edge of you seat counting down to release audience. I am one of those but know I am in the minority. The casuals will go if they hear Good WOM and the release schedule is clear after release. Fallout and RN had that this most certainly did not. 

    Good WOM it has just not a clear release schedule wanted to clarify before somebody jumps on that. 

    Weekdays Thread: Barbie $9.1M MON | $9.6M TUES

    in Numbers and Data

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    3 hours ago, baumer said:

    @Cap I have never heard anybody say that Tommy Lee Jones is performance was just fine. You say that his performance was like everything else he's ever done, but that's because everything else came after the fugitive. I think his performance in The fugitive is one of the all-time great performances in the history of film. He had so many nuances so many great ways of delivering lines and he made me laugh quite often.

     

    I just don't like Shakespeare in love. Even before it beat out saving Private Ryan I just didn't like it. I didn't like the script I didn't like Gwyneth Paltrow there was just nothing about the film that I enjoyed. It's such an overrated piece of dung LOL, now I haven't seen it probably since 1998 so maybe I'll give it a rewatch and I'll come back and let you know what I think.

     

    But this just goes to show that even the most beloved actors and performances or an Oscar winner for best picture can be viewed by two different people and two completely different ways. 

    Yeah such a weird take to have. He shouldn't have won because  it seems like a lot of the characters he played after that. Okay. That performance is great. Watched the movie again this past week and it holds up in every way. And SIL deserving to win over SPR. NO,, NO, and NO. I actually like SIL but in no way should that have won. But as you said people can see stuff in different ways.

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    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | July 12 2023 | 99% on Rotten Tomatoes! | 290M budget so far, Cruise holding Paramount hostage for more money

    in Box Office Discussion

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    12 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

    DEADLINE: What is your assessment of the box office return so far for Mission?

    CLOTH: We’re hopeful that the movie legs out and performs solidly through the rest of summer and hits the numbers that Fallout reached. The average Mission movie does 4.7 times its opening weekend. They tend not to be front-loaded. It’s more of a slow burn. I predict there will be some solid holds all the way into September.

     

    DEADLINE: If it gets to nearly five times its opening weekend you’ll all be very happy, I’m sure. That looks challenging…

    CLOTH: It’s an expensive movie. It was built to do that. There was almost no other direction for it to take — it had to be one of the biggest-grossing movies of the year.

     

    DEADLINE: Very expensive, yes. If the $290M budget is accurate that would rank it in the top 15 most expensive movies all time…Have you been surprised by the box office performance of Barbie and would it have been less risky for Mission to open on a date further from that and Oppenheimer?

    CLOTH: We believed Barbie would be a huge hit, but were still taken back by the enormity of the cultural phenomenon surrounding it. Looking at the summer 2023 box office, we all knew it was going to be a highly competitive frame and have always trusted and maintained confidence in Paramount’s releasing strategies.

     

    DEADLINE: Just looking from the outside, it could be said that none of Babylon, Dungeons & Dragons or Transformers have taken off at the box office. Mission, it remains to be seen, but it probably hasn’t done as brilliantly as hoped out of the gate. Do your core investors get spooked by those box office numbers? And if not, does that give credence to some people’s views that have been aired during the strike that ultimately studios never lose?

    CLOTH: The studios certainly can lose. But box office isn’t the only barometer for success these days. Box office might be a bit lower but that might be a trend, not something that’s unique to these movies. Transactional business is way, way up, but that’s not reported on as much. Box office is one of around eight windows of revenue that these films generate, so the mix is just different nowadays.

     

    ‘Mission Impossible’ Financier C2 Is Quietly Backing Paramount Movies – Deadline

    He makes a good point. People that want to watch Mission Impossible will watch it at some point. The thing about this franchise is that is never had a massive dedicated on the edge of you seat counting down to release audience. I am one of those but know I am in the minority. The casuals will go if they hear Good WOM and the release schedule is clear after release. Fallout and RN had that this most certainly did not. 

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    TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS | 06.09.2023 | Paramount | final gross: $157,066,392

    in Box Office Discussion

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    1 hour ago, The GOAT said:

     

    This Youtube Video draws a descriptive contrast to how the boring and outrageously dull this new Transformers movie was. Michael Bay could use that dumb script and make this new Transformers 10x better than it actually is.   

    ROTB is dull as shit but no we don't need bay to come back to these movies. I say that as a Michael Bay fan who by the time we got to The Last Knight was just done with these movies. 

    30 for 30: 1993 Retrospective List | Submissions Closed | 31 Lists Received | Reveals Start This Weekend

    in Archived Lists and Countdowns

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    Speaking of the Fugitive. Watched that for the umpteenth time again last night. This was its opening weekend anniversary. It still holds up so well. Tommy Lee Jones is so great. He def earned that Oscar.  And this may be my favorite Non Indy or Han Solo performance of  Harrison's. Andy Davis really peaked with this movie.was not  able to keep that momentum of having this and Under Siege back to back for some reason.

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    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | July 12 2023 | 99% on Rotten Tomatoes! | 290M budget so far, Cruise holding Paramount hostage for more money

    in Box Office Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

    MI3 was a troubled production that took eons to get made and went through multiple directors and even cast were fired. That released at nadir of Cruise popularity and had disappointing box office relative to budget(and all marketing costs). So this is not unique. I was absolutely shocked at its BO after seeing it in its OW. Movie was fantastic and held back for other reasons. It took a while for MI4 to get going and Cruise was trying other things in the interim. He tried low scale movie like Lion for Lambs which bombed badly(Knight and Day in 2010 also flooped badly). Supporting role in Tropical Thunder and Valkyrie release during christmas holidays was sort of comeback until MI4 in late 2011. Even that movie was not about big opening. It just had phenomenal WOM and played really well through the holidays. In fact it was among early movies to release 2 days early just for Imax if I am not wrong.  

    It was a whole week early they did the Imax excluisive. It worked out really well and it really built the buzz and WOM. 

    30 for 30: 1993 Retrospective List | Submissions Closed | 31 Lists Received | Reveals Start This Weekend

    in Archived Lists and Countdowns

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    3 hours ago, baumer said:

     

    Did you happen to notice Tobin Bell in a very very quick cameo? Those are the kind of roles he had before he got Saw. He had a similar role in Mississippi burning,  and another one in Malice.

     

     

    But yeah it's great seeing people like Ed Harris and Paul Sorvino and the porridge man LOL. 

     

    Then of course the bigger ones like Gene Hackman Jean triple horn and even Holly hunter. And then Gary busey's in it for about 45 seconds as well LOL

    Yeah the summer of 93. The Firm, In The Line of Fire and The Fugitive all big hits. I really miss the 90's sometimes. 

    Weekend Thread | Estimates - Barbie $53M (hit a billion!), Meg2 $30M, Oppy $28.7, TMNT - $27.95M (5-day $43M), HauntedMansion $8.97M

    in Numbers and Data

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    6 minutes ago, baumer said:

    A few members were talking about watching The Dark Knight again for the first time in years and how good it was, and how absolutely out of this world the script was. They also mentioned how many memorable and iconic lines that were in the film. 

     

    I'm 36 minutes into the film. Batman has just flown into Lau's downtown skyscraper to extradite him back to the US. In the first half hour, I can't believe how many iconic lines there are so far, how amazing this script is right from the start. You've got the pencil trick, you have the restaurant scene where Harvey Dent says you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. And then of course you have one of the more famous scenes where the Joker explains how he got the scars on his face and then proceeds to kill Michael Jai White by putting a smile on his face.

     

    I looked back at the adapted screenplay for that year and of course the one that doesn't belong on the list was The Reader and we all know that Harvey Weinstein bought Oscar votes and Oscar wins and it was never more apparent and obvious than that year.

     

    The Dark Knight missing out on an adapted screenplay nomination is just putrid. That was also the Slumdog year and Milk. Those were the Oscar darlings it seems like that year but the dark Knight in my opinion should have pulled a Titanic or a Ben-Hur or a ROTK and won as many Oscars as possible.

     

    NOLAN TRULY IS A GIFTED DIRECTOR AND THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIS MAGNUS OPUS. I'VE ALWAYS HAD THE DARK NIGHT IN MY TOP 25 FILMS OF ALL TIME, MAYBE AFTER WATCHING THE REST OF THIS MASTERPIECE TONIGHT IT MIGHT GET ELEVATED TO MY TOP 10.

     

    Sorry about that, I don't know why the voice to text ended up doing it in all caps. My apologies for that part 

    Things that are never said by anybody anywhere -Let's watch Slumdog Millionaire again. The movie's that win the best picture oscar sometimes and the movies that do not even get nominated. The Dark Knight was the movie that got them to increase the nominee amounts at least. 

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    Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | July 12 2023 | 99% on Rotten Tomatoes! | 290M budget so far, Cruise holding Paramount hostage for more money

    in Box Office Discussion

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    13 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

     

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    14 minutes ago, Ryan Reynolds said:

     

    I am 90% convinced at this point you are just Maggie under a different user name.  This is just Gleiberman's opinion and he chooses to ignore something called Barbenheimer  as a factor and the responses on twitter seem to be raking him on that. 

    Weekend Thread | Estimates - Barbie $53M (hit a billion!), Meg2 $30M, Oppy $28.7, TMNT - $27.95M (5-day $43M), HauntedMansion $8.97M

    in Numbers and Data

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    2 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:

    People with the right movie theater subscription can see a film as many times as they want for little/no extra cost (besides time).

     

    I would disagree that Barbie's lack of cinematic appeal: for the target audience, seeing Barbieland and the costumes on the big screen is definitely part of the draw. It's not so different than the excitement for the first time a specific comic book character gets a movie, fans want to see the world realized in a way that's well produced (vs cheap).

    Yeah i guess time is what I wonder about. Seeing barbie in a theater 5 or 6 times yeah not a big chunk of the day or weekend  but Oppie? I have a lot free time on my hands on the weekend but  I would not go to a theater to see a 3 hour movie over and over again. If there is a good new movie out I want to see will be seeing that after the second viewing of Oppie at the most. 

    Weekend Thread | Estimates - Barbie $53M (hit a billion!), Meg2 $30M, Oppy $28.7, TMNT - $27.95M (5-day $43M), HauntedMansion $8.97M

    in Numbers and Data

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    2 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

    Disney has money from Endgame + No Way Home + A2 that would fund dozens more epic bombs like this year through the rest of the decade at least. Now, if they fail this hard for like a solid 10 years, we can talk about their actual demise prospects. 

    I think Sony gets  most of the NWH money but point still stands yes. 

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