Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: They've already recouped $75M in the foreign market, so they'll get their other $90M back between theatrical, Blu-Ray, and new subs.

FWIW tentpoles usually need to double their budget to start being profitable

I doubt it'll do that well. What's the marketing budget on this thing?

I can see it easily reaching $330m in the box office.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: They've already recouped $75M in the foreign market, so they'll get their other $90M back between theatrical, Blu-Ray, and new subs.

FWIW tentpoles usually need to double their budget to start being profitable

I doubt it'll do that well. What's the marketing budget on this thing?

I can see it easily reaching $330m in the box office.

Worldwide totally, piece of cake. Domestic (where they need it) it's less of a sure thing

Why is that important?

The Argonaut wrote:Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve are obviously related and similar in a lot of ways. They don't make bad movies, but I also don't think they make great movies. I think it's more that their movies are great accomplishments. And not just on a technical level, even a storytelling level. But, perhaps because they are executed so well and so cleanly, the movies lack a certain vitality that keeps them from being great, maybe

VinylGuy wrote:im fuckig dyying to see House Of Gucci.

Ridley Scott is the best director of the year.

BurtReynolds wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve are obviously related and similar in a lot of ways. They don't make bad movies, but I also don't think they make great movies. I think it's more that their movies are great accomplishments. And not just on a technical level, even a storytelling level. But, perhaps because they are executed so well and so cleanly, the movies lack a certain vitality that keeps them from being great, maybe

They are kinda representative of the best that can exist under the current iteration of Hollywood I think. They are filmmakers who make movies that appeal to corporate execs. This doesn't mean that they are bad or that they are sellouts, just that their movies are more likely to get made right now than people with other aesthetics. More so for Nolan than Villeneuve.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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subversion of expectations as regarding the protagonist/hero worship.

BurtReynolds wrote:It's weird that, of all the future dystopian movies, Demolition Man came closest to accurately predicting the future.