Wicked Becomes Biggest Stage Musical Adaptation Ever At Global Box Office

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• demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And looks objectively terrible compared to basically ANY major motion picture released this year (perhaps just short of the great film but terribly-lit “Rob Peace”).

  I was flabbergasted that such horrifically flat lighting and incredibly uninspired camera work didn’t trigger any reshoots (particularly with the $150 million budget they had and, as a consequence, the equipment they had at their disposal.)

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  • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    people didnt seem to mind

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    • demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They could have shot it on a potato and no one would have noticed.

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  • USSMojave@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe your theater didn’t illuminate it correctly? I saw it twice, both IMAX and non-IMAX and it looked incredible both times

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    • demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I used to be a projectionist.

      The projector was fine.

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    • koberulz@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are articles with the cinematographer about how they deliberately made everything grey.

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• jumjummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anytime I hear anything about this movie I remember the hissy fit the lead actress made over the fan edit of the poster. “How dare they erase my face! Racism!”

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  • koberulz@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    *erasism

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• brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As others have mentioned, this movie looked like dogshit.

  This is what happens when you give an inexperienced, low-budget DoP a 100 million project because of little more than gender.

  Listen to her squirm: youtu.be/ZRL8NSOgOj8

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  • demesisx@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image

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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We have TONS of examples of “inexperienced, low-budget” male DPs shooting blockbusters. Sometimes they look great, sometimes they look terrible. Women deserve those opportunities too. That’s how they become experienced.

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    • brutallyhonestcritic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      99% of the time, they work their way up. There are hundreds of better female DoP’s out there.

      Also, most DoP’s don’t usually go from $10 million to 150 million pictures in the space of one project unless there’s some massive nepotism afoot. She already is in the ASC. Do you know how hard it is to get into the ASC?

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      interesting case you stumbled upon here 😭 they disappear from comments for ten months then return to exclusively trash on Alice Brooks, stating without evidence that she is a meritless recipient of DEI benefit. all their recent comments (that don’t get banned straight away) have no less than 8 immediate upvotes with their interlocutors often getting mirror downvote treatment—which just screams vote abuse to me*. very unique character here.

      *this is speculation and i could be wrong

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More than “Grease”?

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Grease (1978): $328 million

    Wicked (2024): $634.3 million

    Unadjusted for inflation, of course.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Adjusting for inflation shows this Wicked claim to be marketing bullshit.

      www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1978?amount=10…

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I enjoyed the movie overall, but casting Jeff Goldblum as the wizard was not a good choice.

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• Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The amount of marketing for this movie makes me not want to watch it. Tbh I was never going to watch it in a theatre anyway. Would you guys recommend it to a non Disney fan? I’ve been watching all major 2024 releases digitally, so I was wondering.

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It was fine but not exceptional in my opinion.

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