Father’s Day/Juneteenth Weekend Thread | Flash implodes with 55M, Elemental bombs with 29M, holdovers hold atrociously | Theaters are dead, streaming is dead. Everything is dead really.

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, Dominic Draper said:

Aren't ads usually targeted based on your browsing habits?

i mean i didn't not click on it. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

I'm no Chalamet stan but the comparison to Hartnett is an odd one... I don't recall Hartnett every being as liked by critics. And, yeah, maybe he's not in a superhero movie but he is the lead in the Dune franchise. I expect the next one to do well critically and at the box office.

[Mulder]

4 hours ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Hey @keysersoze123 what was that about Deadline never being accurate previews wise?

[TwoMisfits]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Turning Red would be a perennial counterprogramming because so many movies are male-dominated.

I think the only real female-ish movie this summer is Barbie.

 

Mermaid says Hi...as does Elemental (60% women)...as does Book Club 2, which didn't stay around long enough for hello...

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, TwoMisfits said:

 

Mermaid says Hi...as does Elemental (60% women)...as does Book Club 2, which didn't stay around long enough for hello...

Barbie will be much more female-skewing than Elemental I think.

Isn't 60% female a typical demographic for a Pixar movie?

[Eric Prime]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

What's Brad Bird up to these days?

He's directing a movie at John Lasseter's new animation studio. So yeah, real scumbag.

[ZattMurdock]

1 minute ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

I'm no Chalamet stan but the comparison to Hartnett is an odd one... I don't recall Hartnett every being as liked by critics. And, yeah, maybe he's not in a superhero movie but he is the lead in the Dune franchise. I expect the next one to do well critically and at the box office.

He was. Way back then. Something of 20 years ago. I remember similar interviews with him saying that superhero films were beneath him. And well, here we are.

[CoolioD1]

6 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

What's Brad Bird up to these days?

looked it up he's doing a new animated feature for Skydance animation so it'll probably be ugh... an AppleTV movie. There was some announcement of a live action/animation hybrid musical he was trying to make just after Incredibles 2 but seems like that project died.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, Eric Prime said:

He's directing a movie at John Lasseter's new animation studio. So yeah, real scumbag.

I think none of those movies are going to make it. They'll all end up like Luck. generic looking trash

[ThomasNicole]

22 minutes ago, AJG said:

You’re seeing animation produced globally thats fantastic, and somehow doesn’t manage to cost $200m. There’s enough evidence to tell you animated movies made cheaper can surpass that of expensive productions. 
I, as a viewer, truly cannot tell you what’s going into these Pixar movies that requires it to cost $100m more than Mario and Spider-Man. 

Spidey i get it and i know why is cheaper despite not looking like it, but Mario is clearly a “cheap” movie lol 

 

Everything on that movie looks basic af, well made of course but nothing astonishing from a technical pov. I’ve seen better looking movies than Mario from a decade ago, so yeah i can easily see why a Pixar movie is way more expensive than that. 
 

 

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, ThomasNicole said:

Spidey i get it and i know why is cheaper despite not looking like it, but Mario is clearly a “cheap” movie lol 

 

Everything on that movie looks basic af, well made of course but nothing astonishing from a technical pov. I’ve seen better looking movies than Mario from a decade ago, so yeah i can easily see why a Pixar movie is way more expensive than that. 
 

 

Turning Red's climax would look a lot jankier without the outsized budget.

[JohnnyGossamer]

3 minutes ago, Eric Prime said:

He's directing a movie at John Lasseter's new animation studio. So yeah, real scumbag.

No comment on the Lasseter aspect of this... Otherwise, glad Bird's working on something new that hopefully is coming soon. I didn't even hate Tomorrowland and have loved his other stuff.

[TwoMisfits]

5 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Barbie will be much more female-skewing than Elemental I think.

Isn't 60% female a typical demographic for a Pixar movie?

 

Depends on the movie - last year, Lightyear was 52% men, 48% females (from Deadline)...

[cooldude97]

58 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

i can't do it man. I turned off my adblock one time...

 

Every time I come here the ads are either woman's cosplay costume, children's swimwear, or borderline porn/hentai ads

Edited June 16, 2023 by cooldude97

[Grebacio]

2 hours ago, YM! said:

Out of curiosity what are your predictions for the upcoming MCU movies?

Assuming they get good reception:

Marvels - 107/ 302M

Deadpool - 190/486M

Thunderbolts - 80M / 323M

 

 

Substract ~20% if they get Quantumania reception 

[JohnnyGossamer]

5 minutes ago, ZattMurdock said:

He was. Way back then. Something of 20 years ago. I remember similar interviews with him saying that superhero films were beneath him. And well, here we are.

I remember his career at least somewhat. I don't recall critics being spellbound with him like they are Chalamet. I don't doubt Hartnett said like that about superhero movies especially 20+ years ago when the genre wasn't nearly respected. I remember the him and Affleck being mocked endlessly for their work in Pearl Harbor though. 

[keysersoze123]

9 minutes ago, Mulder said:

Hey @keysersoze123 what was that about Deadline never being accurate previews wise?

they said 9m. 

[ThomasNicole]

The Pixar movies is probably the only super budgeted movies coming from DIS that you can see the money on the screen 

 

With that said, i do agreed the budgets are unsustainable at this point and for the whole industry. Fast X is a flop due to an insane 340M budget, Mermaid is a disappointment due to an insane 250M budget. 
 

Still, when it comes to original animations where we’re seeing movies struggling for 200-250M, so even with 100M budgets, it would still be bad. I don’t think just reducing the budget is the solution here.
 

Hollywood needs to learn how to sell original stories again, in any medium, they can’t keep making everything cheap and paying talent even less to ignore the problem, because people will eventually get tired of these IP’s, many of them is already with clear cracks.

[cannastop]

Spider-Verse may look cool but it's obviously made in a cheaper way than Pixar or WDAS.

[WorkingonaName]

2 minutes ago, cooldude97 said:

Every time I come here the ads are either woman's cosplay costume, children's swimwear, or borderline porn/hentai ads

Aint ads targeted according to your browser history.