A Star is Born | 5th October, 2018 | Warner Bros | Bradley Cooper directing, Lady Gaga cast as lead.

[The Panda]

13 hours ago, TombRaider said:

12/25/15	Joy	Fox	$56,451,232	2,924	$17,015,168	2,896	17
10/30/15	Burnt	Wein.	$13,651,946	3,003	$5,002,521	3,003	22
5/29/15	Aloha	Sony	$21,067,116	2,815	$9,670,235	2,815	20
3/27/15	Serena	Magn.	$176,391	59	$100,090	59	26

I believe the only one of those movies he was actually the star of was that Serena movie which was a minuscule studio that never pushed the film wife lol.

[Hatebox]

13 hours ago, harry713 said:

Loool labeling Gaga a “fallen pop star” when she headlined the Super Bowl and had a 100m tour last year. She’s not for everyone but has undeniable star power and popularity. 

She hasn't had an unqualified hit solo album for ten years, so I don't think it's too off the mark to say that. As far as her music goes she's basically a legacy act at this point, which no doubt partly informed her decision to branch out into stuff like this.

 

 

Edited August 12, 2018 by Hatebox

[GraceRandolph]

15 hours ago, harry713 said:

Loool labeling Gaga a “fallen pop star” when she headlined the Super Bowl and had a 100m tour last year. She’s not for everyone but has undeniable star power and popularity. 

every other artist that headlined the superbowl got 200+ m tours. so thats not really impressive at all. 

[ThomasNicole]

37 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

every other artist that headlined the superbowl got 200+ m tours. so thats not really impressive at all. 

She just made 40 shows or something, the other made 90 shows or more, so...

[harry713]

2 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

She just made 40 shows or something, the other made 90 shows or more, so...

Shhhh. It’s better not to look at the details. It helps support their stance. 😉

[filmlover]

I said this in the Venom thread but I could see these two movies play out like the 2010s equivalent of Batman & Robin and My Best Friend's Wedding where the "chick flick" beats the comic book movie even with a much lower opening. This movie has clearly the better pre-release buzz and is shaping up to be a breakout.

[TalismanRing]

10 hours ago, PANDA said:

I believe the only one of those movies he was actually the star of was that Serena movie which was a minuscule studio that never pushed the film wife lol.

He was the lead or co-lead in all of those except Joy.

 

Serena wound up being released by the production company's distributor b/c no other studio or distributor would purchase the rights.  That movie was in the can for a long time though.  I think they made it before American Hustle

 

Still, he's Rocket and he had American Sniper less than 4 years ago.

 

 

[The Futurist]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

He was the lead or co-lead in all of those except Joy.

 

Serena wound up being released by the production company's distributor b/c no other studio or distributor would purchase the rights.  That movie was in the can for a long time though.  I think they made it before American Hustle

 

Still, he's Rocket and he had American Sniper less than 4 years ago.

 

 

Serena was shot in April 2012, just when the first Hunger Games was released.

[filmlover]

Aloha had its name smeared before the marketing even began when the Sony hack happened and revealed the studio wasn't happy with it. Add to the fact it was a horrible film and it flopping despite the starpower makes complete sense.

 

Burnt was Weinsteined lol.

[Jonwo]

Bradley Cooper was barely in Joy, it was a minor role similar to how he was in War Dogs. 

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Aloha had its name smeared before the marketing even began when the Sony hack happened and revealed the studio wasn't happy with it. Add to the fact it was a horrible film and it flopping despite the starpower makes complete sense.

 

Burnt was Weinsteined lol.

Aloha was doomed either way and not because of Cooper but the whole Emma Stone playing an Asian character controversy. 

 

  

[TombRaider]

18 hours ago, harry713 said:

Loool labeling Gaga a “fallen pop star” when she headlined the Super Bowl and had a 100m tour last year. She’s not for everyone but has undeniable star power and popularity. 

still a flop compared to taylor, adele, rihanna, beyonce and company

[PDC1987]

18 hours ago, harry713 said:

Loool labeling Gaga a “fallen pop star” when she headlined the Super Bowl and had a 100m tour last year. She’s not for everyone but has undeniable star power and popularity. 

Wrong. Factually. As someone who follows the music industry with a magnifying glass, let me help you out here:

 

Lady Gaga is a mainstream pop star signed to a major label that only had 1 Top 10 single, for 1 week, from year 6 to year 10 of her career, and she needed to combine a Super Bowl Half Time Show performance of the song with yet another week of it being discounted from $1.29 to $.69 on US iTunes to get it anywhere near the Top 10. (It hit #4.) Its only other week near the Top 20 was the following week, at #18. Her follow up single "The Cure", which was debuted live on stage during her Coachella set and was so basic it baited Top 40 radio programmers as much as possible, debuted and peaked at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100, its only week near the Top 40.

 

Literally over 90% of Gaga's career record sales and chart success comes from the first 4 years of her career, 2008 though 2012. Every single one of her studio albums starting with her second LP, Born This Way in 2011, has plummeted from its predecessor in global sales and singles success. Her decline internationally has been even worse than her US decline. After Born This Way did roughly 4 million overseas ArtPop manged about 1.8 million, and then Joanne pulled down under 900,000. Her drop off in her singles chart success around the globe is just as striking.

 

A couple more things:

 

First; Gaga wasn't even the first choice for the 2017 Super Bowl. Although the NFL later tried to save face and deny it, Adele herself said in an interview that she turned them down. There were also rumblings that, among others, they had tried to get Guns N' Roses too. And really, if you're going to use who gets the Half Time Show, and when they get it, as a barometer I'll ask you this; where are the Black Eyed Peas and Katy Perry now? What happened to them almost right after their respective performances?

 

Second; The Joanne "World" Tour only did well in North America because of scalper sites hilariously misreading demand after the Super Bowl and swooping in and buying the tickets en mass once they were made available, hence the "instant sellouts". Gaga's stans spent days bitching on Twitter about how they didn't even have a chance and ticket prices were now jacked up across the board. The venues were only filled at show time because the scalper sites slaughtered prices as each date approached. My friend John and his bf down in Kentucky only decided to go to the Louisville show because they marked entire blocks of lower bowl seats down to an embarrassingly low $18 a pop the week of the show. The tour was largely a disaster in Europe, where scalpers only filled the shows to capacity (based on ticket sales, not even actual butts in seats at show time) at a couple shows. For one of the Birmingham dates she only sold about 9,200 tickets in a 15,683 capacity arena, and according to the venue seating map the day before she cancelled the remaining Euro dates the second London show was only 60% sold, including scalper purchases.

 

[La Binoche]

13 hours ago, EmpireCity said:

The movie is great. Awards contender lock.

Poor Razzney Spears. 

[PDC1987]

3 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

She just made 40 shows or something, the other made 90 shows or more, so...

This literally isn't even accurate.

Edited August 12, 2018 by PDC1987

[Alli]

5 minutes ago, La Binoche said:

Poor Razzney Spears. 

 

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[AJG]

55 minutes ago, Alli said:

 

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Zoe Saldana truly is in everything.

[Ethan Hunt]

Have I ever mentioned how much I want to have sex with this trailer?

[AJG]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Have I ever mentioned how much I want to have sex with this trailer?

 

If this isn’t a sign of Trump’s America then I don’t know what is.

[filmlover]

21 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Have I ever mentioned how much I want to have sex with this trailer?

[ThomasNicole]

1 hour ago, PDC1987 said:

This literally isn't even accurate.

Make Your research...

Her last tour gross around $2M per show, similar or better average of other pop girls (besides Beyonce / Taylor)

 

The “”low”” final gross is because she made just 49 shows, her fibromyalgia attacks and she can’t add new shows around the globe or even finish the dates already marked.

 

Anyway, this thread is about the movie and i really don’t know why her musical carreer is relevant here.