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- Comment on Jack Black tells Minecraft Movie audience to stop throwing popcorn 2 days ago:
In the real world people are nuanced and complex
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 3 days ago:
I mean, sure, but compelling characters and interesting situations is not what you said. You talked about making the viewer uncomfortable. It’s not hard to identify characters and situations that are compelling and interesting and yet don’t particularly challenge the viewer or make them feel uncomfortable.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
But themes and conflicts that make you uncomfortable are what makes fiction interesting
Most moviegoers want to shut their brains off and escape and be entertained for 90-120 minutes. Not be challenged or be uncomfortable.
I own thousands of movies on 4K and Blu-ray. I’ve had a surround sound setup since the mid-2000s. I have complete collections of many directors’ entire filmographies. Even in my case, the ratio of entertained to challenged that I want most nights is about 90% to 10%.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 4 days ago:
I liked the movie, but it had no chance. The budget was way too big. It should never have been given such a big budget.
I want more mid-budget original movies that actually have a chance of financial success.
- Comment on Bryce Dallas Howard's New Documentary Uncovers the Emotional Ties Between Humans and Pets 4 days ago:
Uh, you want to expand on that?
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 5 days ago:
Obviously Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was inevitable.
Red Letter Media initially joked about Gremlins 3 bringing chaos to the White House and Capitol Hill, but the concept doesn’t work anymore (for obvious reasons). So they did a new pitch to set it in Hollywood instead.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million 5 days ago:
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. is considering selling off the rights to Looney Tunes.
- Comment on Star Wars original cut to be screened this summer in London 1 week ago:
Why one over the other? Genuinely curious since I haven’t watched either, but have considered taking the time to upgrade my ancient non-anamorphic DVD copies
- Comment on Disney/Marvel will be releasing "CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on May 13. 1 week ago:
What I really look for in a superhero movie is an 80-year-old CGI villain
- Comment on ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Breaks Ground Overseas With Strong $18M+ Through Thursday – International Box Office 1 week ago:
And this is why we just get bland, by the numbers, marketable IP vehicles from studios now instead of original movie concepts.
- Comment on Robert McGinnis, Creator of Iconic James Bond Posters, Dies at 99 1 week ago:
Yeah, that poster for Diamonds Are Forever is the best thing about the movie.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 2 weeks ago:
Pneumonia. RIP.
- Comment on Disney Announces Restored And Remastered ‘Lilo & Stitch’ 4K Blu-Ray 2 weeks ago:
It has Dolby Vision
- Comment on From Cleaner Bathrooms to Fewer Trailers, 5 Movie Theater Owners on Ways to Bring Audiences Back to Cinemas 2 weeks ago:
So long as my local theater has reserved seating, I’ll continue to show up 20 minutes late, skip all the actual TV commercials, and be just in time for the movie.
Maybe they should start with “what do audiences want” versus “how can we make more money”?
- Comment on Coyote vs. Acme is getting its day in theaters 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t crazy about The Day The Earth Blew Up, but I’ll check this out when it’s released here.
- Comment on 'Joker,' 'Matrix' producer files for bankruptcy protection amid Warner Bros. fight 2 weeks ago:
The company may attribute it to the legal fight in order to make itself look like the victim and deflect blame from itself, but the actual culprit appears to be spending too much money, to the point where they weren’t paying screenwriters. Village Roadshow took on a bunch of debt to finance this debacle.
Former Sony executive Steve Mosko, who joined Village Roadshow in 2018 as chief executive, left this year. He had attempted to build Village Roadshow into an independent studio that produced its own movies and television shows.
But the Mosko-led campaign to remake the company into a full-service studio proved costly and untimely.
Village Roadshow put into development 99 feature films, 166 scripted television series and 67 unscripted series. Of those, six movies and seven television series went into production. “No film or television series that was produced was able to create a profit that could sustain the studio business,” Maib wrote.
So Mosko cratered the company with a half-baked plan and then danced away without consequences. Variety says
Mosko, well-liked and deeply experienced, will have his pick of new corporate jobs. Some individuals close to his thinking said he may take a stab at producing on his own.
Also note
Village Roadshow’s library assets generate about $50 million a year in revenue, according to Maib’s declaration.
They literally would be better off if they had just done nothing.
- Comment on Millie Bobby Brown, the Netflix algorithm queen who lives on a farm far with more than 45 animals 2 weeks ago:
“I also struggle with loneliness a bit. I always felt quite alone in a crowded room, like I was just one of a kind, like nobody ever really understood me.”
On the other hand, she could struggle with this and not be rich. So it probably worked out pretty well for her.
- Comment on Is ‘Mickey 17’ the latest victim of the Oscars’ newest curse? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it really matters much. For example, Chloé Zhao doesn’t seem to be having trouble getting big names to line up to fund or star in her next project (a dramatized tragic moment in the life of William Shakespeare). I suspect most blame the failure of The Eternals on other factors (like the terrible script), not her. I further suspect that the house it probably paid for is more than enough to make up for any twinge of disappointment she has that it didn’t please the fans.
- Comment on James Bond Sean Connery 4K steelbook collection is up for preorder 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure I’ll end up rebuying them. But just give me the regular 4K discs, not a space hogging “SteelBook library case.”
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 2 weeks ago:
Tomorrow I’m seeing The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie before it leaves theaters. (I’m not really into horror movies or Statham action movies.)
FWIW, Paul Rudd stars in Death of a Unicorn, and David Harbour and Michael Peña are in A Working Man.
- Comment on Report: WB looking to sell Looney Tunes brand after Coyote vs. Acme 3 weeks ago:
What is WB even doing? With the Discovery merger they’ve destroyed HBO as a brand, and now they want to sell the most iconic thing about their studio
- Comment on "Avengers: Doomsday" is officially in production 3 weeks ago:
Most new movies are not those things, but likely most new movies you’ve heard about are. They’re the only ones that get any real marketing spend behind them.
- Comment on With 5,700 Movie Screens Shut Down and the Box Office in a Slump, Theaters Are Still Waiting for a Post-Pandemic Comeback 3 weeks ago:
Where on earth do you live that the cost of a movie ticket is over $50
- Comment on AMC Entertainment To Bring ScreenX, 4DX Premium Formats To U.S. Theaters For First Time 3 weeks ago:
No one:
AMC: Let’s add motion sickness and smell-o-vision
- Comment on ‘Mickey 17’ Projected to Lose $75 Million in Theatrical Run 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d expect it on opening night. But the drop-off for many movies these days is huge.
- Comment on Apple Loses $1 Billion Annually on Apple TV+ | Report 4 weeks ago:
That’s “look under the couch cushions” money for Apple
- Comment on ‘Mickey 17’ Projected to Lose $75 Million in Theatrical Run 4 weeks ago:
Granted, I saw a weekday matinee, but there were only 3 other people in my IMAX theater. This has been the case with every movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I can’t remember the last time I had someone sitting next to me in a full theater. Maybe 2021 when theaters reopened?
- Comment on Warner Bros Negotiating Big Sale Of Shelved ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Movie: The Dish 4 weeks ago:
It deserves to be seen
- Comment on Moviegoers Want More Comedies, Thrillers and Action Titles, Global Cinema Study Finds 4 weeks ago:
I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.
Studios are creatively bankrupt.
- Comment on Anyone else found Mickey 17 embarrassingly bad? (Just watched it) 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I had the same thoughts about where her character was going, and that either her character arc was cut for time or got lost in a rewrite.
But the really weird thing was how Bong portrayed her as a little unhinged when she was shooting the baby bug: no restraint and no expression. They made sure to show her face at the end of that scene after the baby had been turned into hamburger, and it seemed a little intentionally unsettling based on the context.
When they depicted Nasha as a little unhinged as well, I was wondering if they were saying something about future soldiers. No, I guess, based on the ending. Nasha just gets homicidal about Mickey, and who knows what’s up with Kai because her character failed the Bechdel Test and then disappeared.