WEEKEND THREAD | Actual: Wonder Woman 58.63M, Estimates: Mummy 32.2M, Underpants 12.3M, Pirates 10.2M, ICAN 6M

[Zakiyyah6]

I still think that Steve Jobs would have been a hit if it had been starring an A-lister.

[franfar]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

He can do both.  He used to vary it up a lot more.  It's harder now as the market's changed but I don't think he's like Ford was 15 years ago - demanding $20m to do a drama and pricing himself out of non action/sci fi roles.  I can't imagine he doesn't get sent some of the better scripts or opportunity to work with some of the better directors.  He's too good to be making a movie with Kurtzman and I'm surprised he accepted it.

True. Now, I don't know how big his ego is, but apparently he's a consummate professional on set. All depends on if he can accept a reduced paycheck.

[Jonwo]

2 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

 

Makes sense. Similar enough to Fox w/the original Star Wars flicks.

 

Fox owns A New Hope forever but ESB and ROTJ will revert to Disney within the next five years. The prequel trilogy for example was funded by Lucas and Fox just got a distribution fee whereas the IJ were funded and distributed by Paramount. 

[Jake Gittes]

1 minute ago, TalismanRing said:

 

From the leaked e-mails they wanted him - or at least put feelers out for him - around the time Fincher was attached.

 

 

 

What could have been. 

[Dementeleus]

7 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

I remember someone suggested Cruise for Steve Jobs before Fassbender signed on, and while that was never realistically in the cards it could have been something special. Maybe not with Boyle as director though. 

 

5 minutes ago, HesAPooka said:

aaron sorkin wanted this.

 

 

 

btw, it comes at night has the same RT audience score as The Mummy lol

 

5 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

From the leaked e-mails they wanted him - or at least put feelers out for him - around the time Fincher was attached.

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I still think that Steve Jobs would have been a hit if it had been starring an A-lister.

 

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

What could have been. 

 

The most amazing version would've been Christian Bale. Too bad it never came together.

 

(The version we got was still pretty dang special).

[Maxmoser3]

33 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

He's a mediocre director's whose movies stopped making money.

GI Joe did quite well. 

[Alli]

Cruise has the same acting problem as depp. they did too many fantasy/sci-fi/action movies where they don't play a real person, that the public will have a hard time accepting them in a normal role

Edited June 9, 2017 by Alli

[Maxmoser3]

Looking back I wonder if Clive Barker did manage to make his own take on the Mummy. That would've been interesting

[Zakiyyah6]

1 minute ago, Maxmoser3 said:

GI Joe did quite well. 

Quite well is an exaggeration.

[The Futurist]

Those Wonder Woman-Tom Cruise headlines comes Sunday tho ...

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, Alli said:

Cruise has the same acting problem as depp. they did too many fantasi/sci-fi movies where they don't play a real person, that the public will have a hard time accepting them in a normal role

 

Counting THE MUMMY, Cruise has made 20 movies since 2000. Three of them have been fantasy/sci-fi.

 

(That being said I don't think he would've been a good fit as Jobs.)

[Blaze Heatnix]

Biggest first day for a Cruise movie in China- $18.7 million

 

Biggest opening day for a Cruise movie in Russia- $1.6 million

 

Biggest Cruise debut day in Brazil- $526.000

 

Record for biggest opening day for any movie in South Korea

 

More $20.5 million from 33 international markets.

 

 

http://variety.com/2017/film/asia/mummy-china-box-office-opening-tom-cruise-1202460329/

[Maxmoser3]

Just now, Zakiyyah6 said:

Quite well is an exaggeration.

At the box office it did fine. The GA wasn't impressed, but it did decent with overseas and a better than expected domestic total. 

[Jonwo]

Just now, God Emperor Tele said:

 

Counting THE MUMMY, Cruise has made 20 movies since 2000. Three of them have been fantasy/sci-fi.

 

Does that include the Mission Impossible films? 

[MCKillswitch123]

8 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

 

Fox owns A New Hope forever but ESB and ROTJ will revert to Disney within the next five years. The prequel trilogy for example was funded by Lucas and Fox just got a distribution fee whereas the IJ were funded and distributed by Paramount. 

 

Well, it's their business but I think that Fox should have held on to the original trilogy altogether. I mean, they are all classics, and staples of 20th Century Fox's filmography, not just A New Hope. Hell, I think they should hold on to the prequels too, but I get why those are being handed to Disney. Empire and ROTJ not so much, but oh well, biz is biz.

Edited June 9, 2017 by MCKillswitch123

[Maxmoser3]

Just now, The Futurist said:

Those Wonder Woman-Tom Cruise headlines comes Sunday tho ...

I got one planned Wonder Woman whips Tom Cruise.

Wonder Woman makes Tom Cruise and The Mummy her bitch.

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, Maxmoser3 said:

GI Joe did quite well. 

 

$175m budget - $302m WW....  meh - and about financially as well as Van Helsing which was an abomination - though it probably gives us the only time the love interest died from being landed on by her leading man...

 

 

[James]

Side note, but all the Indi talk made me think of this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq4JVKJcG8E

 

This was my favorite thing on TV as a kid and I haven't watched it in sooooo long. I think I might have a binge. Did anyone else watch it?

 

EDIT: How do you embed a YT vid?

Edited June 9, 2017 by James

[Alli]

1 minute ago, God Emperor Tele said:

 

Counting THE MUMMY, Cruise has made 20 movies since 2000. Three of them have been fantasy/sci-fi.

 

(That being said I don't think he would've been a good fit as Jobs.)

i added action after i posted.  the characters he plays are not real people with normal surroundings

[Jake Gittes]

2 minutes ago, God Emperor Tele said:

 

Counting THE MUMMY, Cruise has made 20 movies since 2000. Three of them have been fantasy/sci-fi.

 

(That being said I don't think he would've been a good fit as Jobs.)

 

Off the top of my head Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Oblivion, EOT and Mummy are already more than three. And it's not like Ethan Hunt is any kind of a "normal" character.