AD Astra | Sep 20 2019 | Sci Fi | Best movie of the year with a B- cinemascore? | Brad Pitt

[CoolioD1]

that's fine apocalypse now was delayed for years. j gray about to make space apocalypse now we're not worthy.

[Chewy]

Doesn't really seem like a May movie anyway

[CaptainJackSparrow]

May is too crowded, this should be moved again.

[DMan7]

I agree it should be moved, to Netflix

[TheManFromBeyond]

3 hours ago, DMan7 said:

I agree it should be moved, to Netflix

Don't jinx it.

[Eric Atreides]

 

[TMP]

This sounds very much like my shit

[Zakiyyah6]

Sounds like a recipe for box office failure. 

[DeeCee]

Sounds like a recipe for GLORIOUS box office failure. 

[norbar]

3 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Sounds like a recipe for box office failure. 

Naah. If it was released in Aug or in Dunkirk date it could work. May is just problematic for it beause in may you need a huge opening while later summer months give you room for good word of mouth to work.

[SLAM!]

If it does make its current May release date, I'll be scrambling to see this. Especially if my immediate weekend secondary choice is Aladdin. I don't wanna see Aladdin. 

[The Futurist]

Sounds like a film student neurosis.

[The Stingray]

I have such high hopes for this one. In a year packed with comic book movies and Disney remakes, Ad Astra feels like a much needed breath of fresh air.
 

[The Futurist]

Like Roma, This movie should have been released on the format it was meant to be seen :

 

Android

 

 

[Alli]

Edited February 20, 2019 by Alli

[CaptainJackSparrow]

It would be interesting if this outgrosses Aladdin. 

[Alli]

1 minute ago, CaptainJackSparrow said:

It would be interesting if this outgrosses Aladdin. 

from the description, i doubt this will make more than 100M. Aladdin...at least 200M

[The Futurist]

Yeah, this movie is the new star wa obviously.

[Barnack]

49 minutes ago, CaptainJackSparrow said:

It would be interesting if this outgrosses Aladdin. 

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=jamesgray.htm

 

Date	Title (click to view)	Studio	Lifetime Gross / Theaters		Opening / Theaters		Rank
4/14/17	The Lost City of Z	BST	$8,580,410	866	$110,175	4	2
5/16/14	The Immigrant	Wein.	$2,025,328	150	$44,064	3	4
2/13/09	Two Lovers	Magn.	$3,149,034	148	$94,986	7	3
10/12/07	We Own the Night	Sony	$28,563,179	2,402	$10,826,287	2,362	1
10/20/00	The Yards	Mira.	$889,352	146	$57,339	8	6
5/19/95	Little Odessa	FL	$1,095,885	-	n/a	-	5

 

Twenty years after his father left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, Roy McBride, an Army Corps engineer travels through the solar system to find him and understand why his mission failed.[2]

 

http://film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2.0-Website-Approved-Projects-List-Online-12.10.18.pdf

2016-2017 Ad Astra Lima Project Films Feature Film Indie 60 1252 272 99 $ 49,751,000 $ 2,500,000

 

Sound a lot like a Annihilation/Solaris (with a 88% RT, 8/10 type of reception and very good trailers, good buzz, really big and good press made 32M because it had good legs).

 

Would be really interesting if this match Arrival massive success story (100m).

 

Lost City of Z was quite epic and James Gray with non insignificant budget (50M below the line in California) isn't nothing, Pitt can still put a lot of awareness on a title and help it if the movie deliver, but that a James Gray Sci-fi, more than doubling is previous box office peak isn't certain.

Edited February 20, 2019 by Barnack

[TMP]

No delay? Disney's gonna release two films against one another?