Doctor Sleep | November 8 2019 | Ewan McGregor is Danny | Jacob Tremblay joins

[JB33]

1 minute ago, CoolioD1 said:

it's the best scene in the movie though so he's got that going for him.

Oh...well that's good!

[Julian1410]

Everything about this shining sequeel works except all the things that link iT to the shining. Some scenes iT was just sooo bad and iT felt that they Were ridiculing that masterpiece. All the other parts were absolutely phenomenal but man that third act is so not good

Edited November 8, 2019 by Julian1410

[John2015]

15 hours ago, efialtes76 said:

$45M.

Deadline reported that the budget was in the $50Ms.

[JB33]

5 hours ago, John2015 said:

Deadline reported that the budget was in the $50Ms.

Either way, it's probably not going to make its budget back, domestically speaking. Big yikes, considering we're talking about a studio who usually nails horror films (It, Conjuring universe etc. ).

[Eric Duncan]

 

[John Marston]

Warners was so keen on Doctor Sleep that movie studio chief Toby Emmerich had already struck a deal with director Mike Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures to script a sequel whose working title is Hallorann, drawn from the character who appears in both The Shining and Doctor Sleep.

Box office analysts say Doctor Sleep ran too long (roughly 151 minutes) and that many members of the millennial and Gen Z generations aren't necessarily familiar with The Shining (1979), which was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.

"The Shining, despite being a cult classic, just doesn’t have traction with younger audiences. Thirty-nine years was just too long between sequels," says Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations.

 

 

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-doctor-sleeps-dismal-14m-debut-terrifies-hollywood-1253734

[JohnnyGossamer]

I didn't think much of this... Not surprised it's not taking off as no one was really asking for it. Rebecca Ferguson is fucking great though. She has a lot of fun here. All of it actually.

[Valonqar]

3 hours ago, John Marston said:

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-doctor-sleeps-dismal-14m-debut-terrifies-hollywood-1253734

BR2049 redux. BR clearly had smaller traction with GA than believed. Not all cult classics have widespread appeal. people may know about them but that doesn't mean they care.

[JB33]

Thoroughly enjoyed this, but yeah, I guess it makes sense in hindsight why it's so disappointing at the box office. The Shining really isn't that big a deal - or even a known quantity - for millenials/Gen Z'ers, which makes this sequel really pointless (in their eyes).

 

Looking forward to reading the book!

[Lucas]

It was on the edge of not making it for a long time, but now at 271 reviews it's been certified fresh.

[Curtis1986]

1 hour ago, Lucas said:

It was on the edge of not making it for a long time, but now at 271 reviews it's been certified fresh.

Cool but at this point the movie is pretty much a bust.

[Dbui8743]

This is not being done any favor in Aussie land.

 

Second week and i went to buy tickets only to find there were 3 sessions on Saturday at major theatre chains.

[4815162342]

It was cool that they had a Dark Tower-verse reference in this

[xiazhi]

On 11/8/2019 at 11:00 PM, JB33 said:

Either way, it's probably not going to make its budget back, domestically speaking. Big yikes, considering we're talking about a studio who usually nails horror films (It, Conjuring universe etc. ).

It2 is a letdown too

[Joel M]

On 11/11/2019 at 10:20 PM, Valonqar said:

BR2049 redux. BR clearly had smaller traction with GA than believed. Not all cult classics have widespread appeal. people may know about them but that doesn't mean they care.

 

I think Kubrick's Shining is too famous/iconic even among the GA to be still considered a cult classic. It's just that it's been completely seperated in everyone's mind from the source material and not just because of King's hatred towards it. The people that hate Kubrick's version the most are the biggest fans of the book and many of the people that love it haven't even read it. Even with all the visual callbacks to Kubrick's movie, this never felt like a "real" sequel to a lot of people. 

[JB33]

On 11/14/2019 at 8:44 PM, xiazhi said:

It2 is a letdown too

A letdown compared to It, but still big and very profitable.

[Krissykins]

On 11/15/2019 at 4:44 AM, xiazhi said:

It2 is a letdown too

It Chapter 2 may have dropped $200m from the first, but it’s still one of the biggest horror films of all time. 
 

I just can’t call that a let down lol

[shayhiri]

Fucking hate Kubrick and his ugly "cult" movies so much that I couldn't even make myself see a free torrent of The Shining; stopped it after 5 minutes.

 

His only good movie is the NASA financed "Landings on the Moon", at least it got something interesting going about it.

 

Too bad Dr. Sleep (a very nice movie) had to associate itself with such utter garbage like The Shining. So it is paying the price now.

[Krissykins]

On 11/9/2019 at 1:21 AM, John2015 said:

Deadline reported that the budget was in the $50Ms.

Warner Bros already confirmed it was actually $45m. 

[xiazhi]

On 11/17/2019 at 4:10 PM, JB33 said:

A letdown compared to It, but still big and very profitable.

most horror movies are very profitable