Weekend Thread: FvF vroooms past 30M+; Say Goodnight Angels with 8M for CA; Waves washes up 37k+ PTA

[harlequinade]

Joaquin and DiCaprio all have similar range imho, And frankly, lately, they both do similar things in all of their roles. Pitt showed range this year, and not for the first time.

[Nova]

20 minutes ago, Alli said:

i'm not into horror either, but I feel The Shining is the most mainstream of the old horror movies....the movie everyone knows about. but maybe it's just my perception

The Exorcist is far and away more mainstream than the Shining. 

[Valonqar]

This just in:

 

Dark Phoenix sent flowers and chocolates to Charlies Angels with the message "thank you for being a bigger flop than me! xoxo Dark Phoenix"

 

 

[sfran43]

 

[Nova]

3 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Charlie's Angels is a nuclear level embarrassing flop. I should have known something was going on when all these big actress names were being thrown around and then they chose the cast that they chose.

The big names most likely wanted big pay checks and Sony didn’t wanna have a ginormous budget to try and get back. 

[Zakiyyah6]

I love to see a stellar actor like Phoenix lead a billion dollar hit.

[harlequinade]

Elizabeth Banks made some "interesting" comments before the movie released so I'm sure it's about to get....even more interesting once it flops so bad

[TMP]

1 minute ago, harlequinade said:

Elizabeth Banks made some "interesting" comments before the movie released so I'm sure it's about to get....even more interesting once it flops so bad

What comments?

[Alli]

4 minutes ago, harlequinade said:

 Pitt showed range this year, and not for the first time.

walking around and driving is not exactly range, but he was mesmerizing doing it. does that make sense? he was just too beautiful to look at in OUATIH. and he deserves the oscar for that, dammit!

Edited November 16, 2019 by Alli

[Zakiyyah6]

Just now, Nova said:

The big names most likely wanted big pay checks and Sony didn’t wanna have a ginormous budget to try and get back. 

Charlie's Angels is nothing without big/interesting names. Also there are no big interesting action set pieces in the trailer.

[Valonqar]

6 minutes ago, harlequinade said:

Joaquin and DiCaprio all have similar range imho, And frankly, lately, they both do similar things in all of their roles. Pitt showed range this year, and not for the first time.

Pitt is incredible in OUATIH and it's really annoying that people dismiss his role as "easy" when it's him who makes it look easy even though it's not. Unfortunately, we are trained to appreciate actressing more than natural-ness so if an actor doesn't shout or break a plate, he/she "didn't do anything in the movie". 

Edited November 16, 2019 by Valonqar

[Nova]

Just now, Zakiyyah6 said:

Charlie's Angels is nothing without big/interesting names. Also there are no big interesting action set pieces in the trailer.

Of course. That’s what we’ve been discussing lol The lack of leads and the piss poor marketing. But I don’t think big names staying away from it meant the project wasn’t good. It’s gotten decent reviews. It just didn’t have the marketing and the leads. But there was still no guarantee that with big names, the movie would have been a success either. 

[harlequinade]

1 minute ago, TMP said:

What comments?

Some crap how if it flops it's because men didn't go to see it

 

Well I'm a woman and I didn't go to see it because trailers sucked lol

[a2k]

		Movie	Distr	Gross	%YD	%LW	Thr	Per Thr	Total Gross	D
-	N	Ford v. Ferrari	20th Century…	$10,941,000			3,528	$3,101	$10,941,000	1
-	N	Charlie’s Angels	Sony Pictures	$3,150,000			3,452	$913	$3,150,000	1
-	(2)	Last Christmas	Universal	$2,000,000	+150%	-51%	3,454	$579	$17,875,765	8
-	(7)	Playing with Fire	Paramount Pi…	$1,900,000	+304%	-46%	3,125	$608	$18,847,824	8
-	(3)	Doctor Sleep	Warner Bros.	$1,685,000	+114%	-68%	3,855	$437	$20,543,159	8
-	N	The Good Liar	Warner Bros.	$1,635,000			2,439	$670	$1,635,000	1
-	(5)	Joker	Warner Bros.	$1,475,000	+145%	-42%	2,337	$631	$318,439,593	43
-	(8)	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	Walt Disney	$1,187,000	+206%	-40%	2,549	$466	$101,980,384	29
-	(4)	Terminator: Dark Fate	Paramount Pi…	$1,075,000	+75%	-61%	2,477	$434	$53,585,077	15
-	(9)	Jojo Rabbit	Fox Searchlight	$754,000	+157%	-34%	995	$758	$11,533,498	29
-	(10)	Zombieland: Double Tap	Sony Pictures	$535,000	+87%	-55%	1,407	$380	$68,918,247	29
-	(14)	Black and Blue	Sony Pictures	$240,000	+97%	-52%	558	$430	$20,073,804	22
-	(12)	Motherless Brooklyn	Warner Bros.	$135,000	-18%	-79%	611	$221	$8,449,596	15

[Jonwo]

13 minutes ago, efialtes76 said:

Good Liar-Budget was $10M,with $2.5M from Bron Studios. 

Motherkess Broklyn and Godzilla-Warner only spend 25% of the budget

The Goldfinch-Coproduced with Amazon. 

Even a smash hit like Joker was coproduced with Bron Studios and Village Roadshow Pictures. 

 

 

Even The Good Liar won't lose money due to the budget, I do think they should have released in a quieter period but I wonder if they picked November so it could be ready for when HBO Max launched. 

 

 

[newknicksfan]

12 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Bale had already established himself as a very good actor long before playing Batman (American Psycho, anyone?) so it's hardly a surprise he's had a terrific post-comic book movie career. It'll be surprising if he doesn't win a second Oscar someday (a Lead one most likely).

Bale was the lead actor in a Steven Spielberg epic and garnered universal acclaim for his performance back in 1987! That's crazy lol Though he did have a very under the radar 90s output. 

[MrGlass2]

Jesus, poor Angels.

[harlequinade]

1 minute ago, Valonqar said:

Pitt is incredible in OUATIH and it's really annoying that people dismiss his role as "easy" when it's him who makes it look easy even though it's not. Unfortunately, we are trained to appreciate actressing more than natural-ness so if an actor doesn't shout or break a plate, he/she "didn't do anything in the movie". 

Yep. For example. I love Keira Knightley who usually plays her roles so naturally and gracefully, she should have won an Oscar for Imitation Game and there were all those comments how 'she did nothing', no, she played a believable human being with a lot nuance and warmth. I hated OUATIH and Pitt was the only thing keeping me watching

[Movie nerd]

3 minutes ago, harlequinade said:

Joaquin and DiCaprio all have similar range imho, And frankly, lately, they both do similar things in all of their roles. Pitt showed range this year, and not for the first time.

I don’t know about that, in Ouith he played (granted he was great in that) the same "cool badass" type of role he played many times in his career. 

He was good in Ad Astra but I don't know how it showed some great range. 

[Zakiyyah6]

1 minute ago, Nova said:

Of course. That’s what we’ve been discussing lol The lack of leads and the piss poor marketing. But I don’t think big names staying away from it meant the project wasn’t good. It’s gotten decent reviews. It just didn’t have the marketing and the leads. But there was still no guarantee that with big names, the movie would have been a success either. 

There's no guarantee of anything when it comes to box office. I know that after following it for 18 years. That still doesn't change the issues that CA was facing.