Disney's A Wrinkle in Time | 9th March, 2018 | Frozen's Jennifer Lee writing, Ava DuVernay directing. 45% on RT

[Valonqar]

13 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

I like John Carter in a  6/10 way but it would have been a much much better movie with a different male lead and about 20-30 minutes of repetitive bloat cut.  The world design was great and Lynn Collins should have had better things happen for her career from her performance.  DeFoe and Morton were also very good. 

Kitsch absolutely sinks it. It's one of those movies whose watchabilty could have been salvaged by a different lead. But they cast a balsawood so...:shrug:

Edited March 1, 2018 by Valonqar

[Cap]

Excellent Profile from The New York Times on Ava and A Wrinkle In Time

 

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Ms. Winfrey did. “I grew up in an era where there was absolutely zero, minus, images” of girls like her in pop culture, she said. “So I do imagine, to be a brown-skinned girl of any race throughout the world, looking up on that screen and seeing Storm, I think that is a capital A, capital W, E, some, AWESOME, experience,” she added by phone. “I think this is going to be a wondrous marvel of an experience for girls that in the future they will just take for granted.”

 

The entertainment press made much of the fact that Ms. DuVernay had never worked with special effects (which is rarely belabored when male directors make the same leap). But neither had Ms. Winfrey. “My first time being hung from the ceiling!” she said. She found getting up and getting down so nerve-racking that she asked the crew to just keep her rigged up. “The crew’s going to lunch, and they’re like, well we can’t leave you hanging! I go, ‘Oh yeah, you can!’” she said. (She stayed up there. Just picture it.)

 

Ms. DuVernay, though, “was in her element,” Ms. Winfrey said, recalling that when she observed the huge cranes with the camera, “and there’s Ava, in her dreads and her sneakers and her vest and her jeans, surrounded by lots of big guys and lots of big machinery, saying, ‘Cut, stop, let’s take that again,’ it just would make my heart swell, that she had taken on something that was this enormous, and was managing it so well.”

 

“Wrinkle” is a very girlie movie; at one point, a character is saved from a fall by a field of gossipy flowers. And Ms. DuVernay is warm and girlie, too — at our meeting, we talked about the joys and pitfalls of fake eyelashes; crying, she peeled hers off. “I like clothes, I like makeup, I like looking at pretty dresses,” she said. Onscreen, the Mrs. characters change costumes at every appearance: Ms. Winfrey described her look as “Beyoncé’s aunt from another planet.”

 

And none of these glitter-tinged fantasies subtract from Ms. DuVernay’s own mission, that cultivation of new perspectives and realities. To her, “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time” share a foundational message: “Civil rights work and social justice work take imagination, to imagine a world that isn’t there, and you imagine that it can be there. And that’s the same thing that you do whenever you imagine and insert yourself in a future space, or in a space where you’ve been absent.”

 

To imagine a world where a girl like Meg can fly was “super-emotional to me,” she said. “And then to be able to make it so, even on camera for a little while, for two hours — to change the world for that small amount of time, it’s very powerful. It’s addictive.”

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I'm so ready. 

[MrGlass2]

16 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

Ms. Winfrey did. “I grew up in an era where there was absolutely zero, minus, images” of girls like her in pop culture, she said. “So I do imagine, to be a brown-skinned girl of any race throughout the world, looking up on that screen and seeing Storm, I think that is a capital A, capital W, E, some, AWESOME, experience,”

Awesome indeed.

[Alli]

so when does the embargo lift?

[Porthos]

2 minutes ago, Alli said:

so when does the embargo lift?

The 7th (Wed).  Not sure what exact time.

[Porthos]

 

[Alli]

4 minutes ago, Porthos said:

The 7th (Wed).  Not sure what exact time.

yuck. not a good sign

[Porthos]

Just now, Alli said:

yuck. not a good sign

It's been discussed.

 

Still, wouldn't be the first time a film was good/great despite having a late embargo.  Best not to read too much into it, I reckon.

[Alli]

1 minute ago, Porthos said:

It's been discussed.

 

Still, wouldn't be the first time a film was good/great despite having a late embargo.  Best not to read too much into it, I reckon.

I guess...

 

They aren't even allowing reviews on letterboxd. It screened, yet nobody has posted anything.

[Porthos]

boxoffice.com has downgraded AWiT's tracking to 39/115 (-19%).  No reason given in the actual article.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Porthos
Wrong link. Bah

[TalismanRing]

Film reporter for The Wrap, though not a critic

[MovieMan89]

2 hours ago, Porthos said:

boxoffice.com has downgraded AWiT's tracking to 39/115 (-19%).  No reason given in the actual article.

I though it was tracking between 34-37 last we heard? 

[Porthos]

19 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

I though it was tracking between 34-37 last we heard? 

current tracking (supplied the wrong link before accidentally oops)

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8-Week Tracking:

Release Date	Title	3-Day Wide Opening	% Chg from Last Week	Domestic Total	% Chg from Last Week	Estimated Location Count	Distributor
3/9/2018	Gringo	$3,000,000	-25%	$7,500,000	-25%	2,400	STXfilms
3/9/2018	The Hurricane Heist	$4,500,000	-10%	$11,300,000	-10%	2,500	Entertainment Studios
3/9/2018	Strangers: Prey at Night	$7,000,000		$15,000,000		2,400	Aviron
3/9/2018	A Wrinkle In Time	$39,000,000	-19%	$115,000,000	-19%	3,800	Disney

last weeks tracking

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Current 8-Week Tracking:

Release Date	Title	3-Day Wide Opening	% Chg from Last Week	Domestic Total	% Chg from Last Week	Estimated Location Count	Distributor
3/2/2018	Death Wish	$17,000,000	13%	$43,500,000	12%	2,700	Annapurna / MGM
3/2/2018	Red Sparrow	$20,000,000	-7%	$60,000,000	-9%	2,900	Fox
3/9/2018	Gringo	$4,000,000		$10,000,000		1,500	STXfilms
3/9/2018	The Hurricane Heist	$5,000,000		$12,500,000		2,300	Entertainment Studios
3/9/2018	Strangers: Prey at Night	$7,000,000	17%	$15,000,000	17%	2,300	Aviron
3/9/2018	A Wrinkle In Time	$48,000,000	-8%	$142,000,000	-8%	3,800	Disney

Might have been 34-37 elsewhere though.

[MovieMan89]

Didn't realize you just meant boxoffice.com's projections. I was talking actual tracking. 

[Porthos]

3 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Didn't realize you just meant boxoffice.com's projections. I was talking actual tracking. 

Ah, sorry.   I just usually see people pop those in threads and I thought it might be interesting here if only for expectation setting.

[EmpireCity]

Woof.  This movie is not good.  

[YM!]

3 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Woof.  This movie is not good.  

Any thoughts on OW?

[EmpireCity]

Just now, YourMother the Edgelord said:

Any thoughts on OW?

 

Maybe $35m?

[GambitPool]

23 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Woof.  This movie is not good.  

Are you allowed to talk about anything? Is this a case too much? The trailers looked like they were trying too hard. The source material has always been called "unfilmable."

[narniadis]

Well darn.... maybe I will still like it