dudalb Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 2 minutes ago, cannastop said: A $100 million marketing budget? That seems pretty high for this movie. Agreed. Of course COpolla c ould be using the classic tactic of asking for more then he knows he going to get so he can bargain down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomThomas Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 (edited) Quote Most of those who spoke to THR describe a film that is an enormously hard sell to a wide audience. Two people say it’s hard to figure out who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. The big exception is LaBeouf, who they say is the best thing about the film (he’s one of the antagonists). Shia carries. Edited April 8 by TomThomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedorito Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 44 minutes ago, filmlover said: Quote Not everyone was turned off. “I liked it enormously,” says one specialty label founder, who describes Megalopolis as a “very big film” that “has a real life. … How do you define commercial? You look at movie like Blade Runner and it became so much more commercial than on opening weekend.” Despite the vote of confidence, Megalopolis won’t find a home at his studio: “It takes time to find right match,” he says. Another studio head, however, was far less charitable in his assessment: “It’s so not good, and it was so sad watching it. Anybody who puts P&A behind it, you’re going to lose money. This is not how Coppola should end his directing career.” Yeesh, even people who liked it don’t want to pick it up. Realistically, who will pick it up? Focus and Universal have passed, I don’t think Paramount is in the position to gamble on this, and I doubt A24 can afford it if they recently had a Springsteen film stolen from them by 20th Century. Neon probably can’t afford it either. That leaves Warner Bros, 20th Century, and Searchlight. Maybe Warner Bros since they’re on a prestige rush lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceRico Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 The Babylon of this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude391 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 "Most of those who spoke to THR describe a film that is an enormously hard sell to a wide audience. Two people say it’s hard to figure out who is the good guy and who is the bad guy." This level of insight from studio execs running multibillion studios explain a lot about the current state of things lol. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 2 hours ago, Speedorito said: Yeesh, even people who liked it don’t want to pick it up. Realistically, who will pick it up? Focus and Universal have passed, I don’t think Paramount is in the position to gamble on this, and I doubt A24 can afford it if they recently had a Springsteen film stolen from them by 20th Century. Neon probably can’t afford it either. That leaves Warner Bros, 20th Century, and Searchlight. Maybe Warner Bros since they’re on a prestige rush lately. Lionsgate? They distributed Moonfall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmasterclay Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Not going to trust a bunch of suits in the trades to have any taste whatsoever on the artistic merits of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 6 hours ago, filmlover said: Pretty sad article. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Coppola wanted to make a distribution deal before commiting to a big fest, but it seems he really needs to go to a big fest first and pray for good reception, maybe even fest award, then chances to find distribution would definitely improve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatebox Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 (edited) 7 hours ago, TheDude391 said: "Most of those who spoke to THR describe a film that is an enormously hard sell to a wide audience. Two people say it’s hard to figure out who is the good guy and who is the bad guy." This level of insight from studio execs running multibillion studios explain a lot about the current state of things lol. you couldn’t parody that quote if you tried. When you read about filmmakers rallying against studio heads in the 70s this exactly the mindset they were fighting Edited April 9 by Hatebox 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyDargon Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Coppola needs to take this to Venice or Cannes. Otherwise the studio heads will continue to be morons. Of course he probably could have sold it to Netflix for 150 mil if this was still 2017. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excel1 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 All this chatter doubles as advertising and is definitely building curiosity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyDargon Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 It's not advertising so much as it is studios bitching about their unwillingness to distribute. At least Coppola controls his own movie, as horrifically expensive as it must be for him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderByte Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 (edited) 100m ad spend isnt exactly a small number. It'll likely do great at awards season but that'd need to do much bigger numbers than it probably will to justify it. Someone needs to be willing to eat some money for awards, and Netflix sounds to be moving away from ridiculously overspending on films now even if they did get it a theatrical release Edited April 9 by SpiderByte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WittyUsername Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 It just occurred to me, but could Apple not pick this up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 5 minutes ago, WittyUsername said: It just occurred to me, but could Apple not pick this up? I doubt they and Coppola could come to terms. He probably wants a long thretrical run for this, which sort of runs counter to Apple's strategy. And, of course, this could just be Coppola manuevering to get a deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 5 hours ago, MightyDargon said: It's not advertising so much as it is studios bitching about their unwillingness to distribute. At least Coppola controls his own movie, as horrifically expensive as it must be for him. Maybe the studio heads should remember what happned to Jack Woltz, head of Woltz Pictures, in the God Father. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasNicole Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 I don’t trust studio executives to tell me if a movie is good or not If it’s on Cannes in competition it probably have strong artistic value, even if it’s divisive Now Coppola have to pray he actually won, it would make it easier for him to sell the distribution rights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Glad I elected not to participate in the mindnumbing "unmarketable" discourse yesterday. We'll find out about that soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...