Air | April 5, 2023 | Amazon | Ben Affleck, Matt Damon | Getting a theatrical release

[PrinceRico]

99% Critics rating and 99% audience score and up to 82 on Metacritic 

[Halba]

5 hours ago, PrinceRico said:

99% Critics rating and 99% audience score and up to 82 on Metacritic 

Affleck cements his place as one of the greatest modern day directors

 

ranking as follows(Modern day directors- no older than 60) that currently are active.

 

1. Dennis Villeneuve

2. Christopher Nolan

3. Ben Affleck (Air, The Town, Argo, Gone baby gone)

4. Rian Johnson

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by Halba

[TMP]

Just now, Halba said:

Affleck cements his place as one of the greatest modern day directors

 

ranking as follows(Modern day directors- no older than 60) that currently are active.

 

1. Dennis Villeneuve

2. Christopher Nolan

3. Ben Affleck

4. Rian Johnson

 

this could be the greatest movie of all time 😮 

[Lucas]

Since this is clearly staying in the 90s on RT that means Affleck's entire directorial filmography is up there... except Live by Night at 34% lol

[kayumanggi]

 

[Krissykins]

I actually didn’t realise Ben was the director. Excellent scores though, 99% on both critics and audiences. 
 

I wasn’t planning to see it, but Viola Davis is always a draw for me. Matt and Ben not so much. 

[excel1]

breakout incoming plz?!

[Jonwo]

WB is reaping the benefit from their MGM distribution deal with Creed III and now Air. 

[keysersoze123]

1 hour ago, excel1 said:

breakout incoming plz?!

I think it will be a WOM hit. I hope it has a leggy run and actually is in BP/BD contention next year. 

[GOGODanca]

 

[Pinacolada]

The budget for this is absurd.... r u kidding? I literally figured the production budget was like $30m...

 

I'm sure it's a similar deal as Magic Mike 3, where it was originally ended to be a streaming thing, so they just paid all the actors like 2.5x their salaries, but idk, they gotta get that budget out with some asterisks

 

Because it's not gonna be a hit on paper with that budget and it'll be hailed on the internet as a flop, because people will fail to consider WHY the budget might be that high, regardless of how it does at the end of the day

Edited April 4, 2023 by Pinacolada

[thajdikt]

90M including marketing or 90M + the 40M spent on marketing?

[PenguinHyphy]

34 minutes ago, Pinacolada said:

The budget for this is absurd.... r u kidding? I literally figured the production budget was like $30m...

 

I'm sure it's a similar deal as Magic Mike 3, where it was originally ended to be a streaming thing, so they just paid all the actors like 2.5x their salaries, but idk, they gotta get that budget out with some asterisks

 

Because it's not gonna be a hit on paper with that budget and it'll be hailed on the internet as a flop, because people will fail to consider WHY the budget might be that high, regardless of how it does at the end of the day

 

The budget happens to be the budget, though, so they are not going to be wrong in that instance       

[Pinacolada]

51 minutes ago, thajdikt said:

90M including marketing or 90M + the 40M spent on marketing?

The latter

[upriser7]

holyshit...how on earth does a movie like this have $90M budget ? It sounds insane

[GOGODanca]

20 minutes ago, upriser7 said:

holyshit...how on earth does a movie like this have $90M budget ? It sounds insane

Matt , Ben, Viola and Chris Tucker don't come cheap. I read on THR yesterday that some exec said Matt made more from this movie than any non Bourne movie in his career 

[TwoMisfits]

3 hours ago, GOGODanca said:

 

 

And the "it's not clear how long the film is playing on the big screen before it'll stream on Prime" is why I'm not sure I'm gonna use my $5 tickets.  It would be a squeeze into the holiday when I already have Mario booked...and I have Prime, so if it's gonna release by the end of the NBA playoffs (or even the end of this month), I'll be in the mood then (and have way more time)...

[John Marston]

flop and no home media market to save it. The only way to make these types of films is either slashing the budgets massively or just making them for artistic purposes knowing you won't make money

[Ozymandias]

22 minutes ago, John Marston said:

flop and no home media market to save it. The only way to make these types of films is either slashing the budgets massively or just making them for artistic purposes knowing you won't make money

[DAJK]

1 hour ago, John Marston said:

flop and no home media market to save it. The only way to make these types of films is either slashing the budgets massively or just making them for artistic purposes knowing you won't make money

Likely the inflated budget comes from the fact that it was originally planned as a streaming release, so they had to pay out the actor's back-end deals upfront. Guessing this would have been a 50M movie had it been produced intended for a theatrical distribution.