Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre | March 3 2023 | Lionsgate | Guy Ritchie | Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Bugzy Malone, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, and Hugh Grant

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• Jason Statham as Orson Fortune

 

 

[Cmasterclay]

[Pinacolada]

Looking forward to this. I think "Ruse de Guerre" is a pretty unnecessary subtitle though

Edited December 7, 2021 by Pinacolada

[DAJK]

Hyped for this. Ritchie’s last few have been fun as hell.

 

I guess making a billion dollar movie for Disney let’s you do whatever you want in Hollywood 

[excel1]

Josh Hartnett comeback in full swing I see, good for him. 

[AMCTheater2000]

Pushed Back to March 18th, 2022

 

https://deadline.com/2021/12/stx-release-date-changes-contractor-bed-rest-operation-fortune-1234892360/

[karlleng]

On 12/7/2021 at 9:03 PM, Cmasterclay said:

 

lmao, is this from this latest piece about Jeremy  in New Yorker?

[EmpireCity]

FYI, don't be shocked if this is sold off along with all of STX's catalog.  They are flat broke and can't afford to release any films at this point.  The last small amount of money they had melted away last week.  Right now they are seeking a buyer or outside investment to keep going.  

 

They're done unless someone saves them soon.  Most of the staff has been fired or laid off.  

[Pinacolada]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

FYI, don't be shocked if this is sold off along with all of STX's catalog.  They are flat broke and can't afford to release any films at this point.  The last small amount of money they had melted away last week.  Right now they are seeking a buyer or outside investment to keep going.  

 

They're done unless someone saves them soon.  Most of the staff has been fired or laid off.  

Oh damn. I honestly thought they were doing ok in the mid market movie area. The Gentlemen and Wrath of Man seemed to do well for them

 

Just my own 2 cents, I bet they sell off Chris Pine's The Contractor but release this theatrically. I think this has potential to do as well as the aforementioned Guy Ritchie STX films

 

EDIT: I always forget Wrath of Man was MGM, not STX

Edited December 17, 2021 by Pinacolada

[excel1]

On 12/17/2021 at 2:05 AM, EmpireCity said:

FYI, don't be shocked if this is sold off along with all of STX's catalog.  They are flat broke and can't afford to release any films at this point.  The last small amount of money they had melted away last week.  Right now they are seeking a buyer or outside investment to keep going.  

 

They're done unless someone saves them soon.  Most of the staff has been fired or laid off.  

 

Any word on what happened to this?

 

August/September is straight up dead. This could over perform there. 

[EmpireCity]

11 hours ago, excel1 said:

 

Any word on what happened to this?

 

August/September is straight up dead. This could over perform there. 

 

It's caught up in their bankruptcy / sale.  

[TheDude391]

If this is caught up in the STX bankruptcy, I guess Den of Thieves 2 is also indefinitely on hold too.

[AniNate]

Guess this was a wee bit of an issue too

 

 

Guy Ritchie's new £125m spy thriller gets delayed 'to edit out nationality of Ukrainian gangster characters out of sensitivity to the ongoing war' 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10947485/ALISON-BOSHOFF-Guy-Ritchie-movie-gets-delayed-edit-nationality-Ukrainian-gangsters.html

Edited June 28, 2022 by AniNate

[excel1]

This cost $125m...?

[AniNate]

More like $150mil

[Pinacolada]

Ain't no fucking way. This is like $50m budget MAX

[EmpireCity]

I would bet it has like a $25m budget at most.  

[Eric Atreides]

https://deadline.com/2022/11/adam-driver-daisy-ridley-micheal-mann-guy-ritchie-movies-stx-distribution-ferrari-1235169849/

 

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None more so than Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham’s action-comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre, which has been ready for some time. We understand the film is now most likely to head to a streamer for domestic. We understand there has been back and forth between Miramax, Lionsgate and STX about the film’s domestic release, with neither Miramax or STX keen to be on the hook for sizeable P&A. A theatrical launch was initially the plan via STX but the company couldn’t fulfil that obligation following its downsizing. Lionsgate did at some point show willing to release the movie – a January launch was once mooted but that would have jutted up against Gerard Butler action pic Plane (which we hear is solid). We hear that Miramax is ultimately seeking a high-dollar U.S. streaming deal.  

 

The film’s international distributors — who played a key role in getting the movie financed – have been waiting patiently to get the movie out. We understand they are now tired of waiting and will start their launches from January, even if it means going ahead of the domestic release. 

 

It hasn’t been plain sailing for Operation Fortune, which already had to change its name from Five Eyes — the name of a western intelligence organisation — due to concerns about how that would play in China. Then a plotline involving Ukrainian mobsters became a minor headache after the Russian invasion. We’re assured this was a minor sticking point and re-edits weren’t needed, despite press reports to the contrary.

 

[Verrows]

Ughhhhhhh!

[excel1]

This would be an obvious hit late last summer. What are they waiting for?