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It's gonna be a while before I can see mother! but I'm so damn curious now. And super tempted to enter the spoiler thread. The Kermode review was very intriguing, same with the Aronofsky interview by Simon Mayo.

DeathyBoy said:
The Hell?

I wasn't a fan of Solaris, but how does it get an F? Bloody audiences.
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It's those damn Tarkovski fanboys.
 
Busty said:
A lot of people filling out application forms for Burger King.
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I'm sure it wasn't that bad this year!
Monster Trucks..
xXx.....
GITS.........
Baywatch.........
Transformers............
mother...............


Save us Daddy's Home 2!
 
Speaking of Darren Aronofsky and superhero movies, he's been talking about his Batman Year One adaptation on the mother! press tour (from before Nolan made Begins). Some choice comments,

Q: Yes, same here. So I want to ask about this – whenever you are brought up, there's always a discussion about your involvement with Batman. You once expressed interest and everyone now says "oh, I would have loved to see Darren's version." Or even, "Darren's version would have been too dark for the studio." Do you still feel that way?

Darren: You know what, I think it's finally… I think we were basically – whatever it is – 15 years too early. Because I hear the way they’re talking about the Joker movie and that's exactly – that was my pitch. I was like: we're going to shoot in East Detroit and East New York. We're not building Gotham. The Batmobile – I wanted to be a Lincoln Continental with two bus engines in it.

Q: Seriously?

Darren: Yeah, with two bus engines, all duct taped together. It was the duct tape MacGyver Batman. And some of my ideas got out there through other films. Like the ring with "BW", Bruce Wayne's ring making the scar was our idea and I think that was in Zack's or something. Which is fine, you write these ideas and they get out. We were all about reinventing it and trying to make it more Taxi Driver visceral. That was the whole pitch. But the toy people were like, "oh it can't be a Lincoln Continental, you have to make a Batmobile."

And I think with Chris [Nolan's] work, which was great, it was just - he hit it [out of the park]. He was able to get the darkness in, and the psychology of the character, yet he was still able to give the gizmo thing, which I wasn't ever really interested in. So, I think that's the back story. I think we were ahead of our time. And I was always like; why can't we make a more lower-budget rated-R [movie], just like in comics you have different brands but and now they're finally doing that. They're doing the spinoffs, which is great. This is an exciting time because they'll be able to take more risks and we won't be seeing the same superhero movie over and over again. You'll get things like Deadpool, which was a relief as compared to seeing the same film over and over again.
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He wanted Joaquin Phoenix as Bruce Wayne for it.
 
Aronofsky didn't get to do Batman. He didn't get to do Wolverine. He likes the idea of weird low budget superhero spin-offs. His girlfriend is part of the X-Men franchise.

Guys, I have interpreted the omens.
Darren Aronofsky's Gambit.
 
Jigorath said:
I wonder what the vibe is at Paramount HQ right now
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Code: 
[B]FILM			DOM GROSS	BUDGET[/B]
Transformers 5		$130M		$217M
Baywatch		$58M		$69M
XXX 3			$45M		$85M
Ghost in the Shell	$41M		$110M
Monster Trucks		$33M		$125M
Rings			$28M		$25M
Mother!			$20M (est)	$30M
[B]TOTAL			$355M		$661M[/B]


Wonder Woman		$411M		$150M
 
I wonder what it would take for me to run Paramount? 🤔

You wouldn't see me greenlighting fucking Monster Trucks for one.
 
Martinski43 said:
WW sits on a pretty even 50/50 domestic and foreign gross too according to boxofficemojo. Thats pretty unusual as well.
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At least in regards to dom/foreign split of recent movies, there's a strong correlation with movie quality. The better the consensus on movie quality, the closer the split is to 50%. If the movie is bad, foreign will be 65% or more of the take. Thus, WW isn't that unusual for a good first entry in the past 2-3 years. It goes without saying this only applies to movies produced by American film companies.
 
Toa TAK said:
You liked Monster Trucks????????
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I like that it exists.

"It's a monster truck, you see. AND there's a monster IN the truck!"
Someone heard that and greenlighted a $100M+ movie. That is a very precious thing.

And that someone probably giggled at the sight of the giant robot balls in Transformers 2.
Just like I did.
 
Sgt. Kabukiman said:
You're hired!
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Thank you. If elected I'd start by getting Simon Pegg and Justin Lin working on a Kelvin Universe Borg movie. Then I'd start courting directors like Rian Johnson or Alex Garland and giving them $150m and 2-3 years to make whatever Star Trek movie they wanted.

Vote me for President of Paramount.
 
Sgt. Kabukiman said:
I like that it exists.

"It's a monster truck, you see. AND there's a monster IN the truck!"
Someone heard that and greenlighted a $100M+ movie. That is a very precious thing.

And that someone probably giggled at the sight of the giant robot balls in Transformers 2.
Just like I did.
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Monster Truck should have been Monster Trucks, an animated tv series pushing a toyline. It also should have come out in the 90's and aired in the timeslot after Street Sharks.
 
Cvie said:
Monster Truck should have been Monster Trucks, an animated tv series pushing a toyline. It also should have come out in the 90's and aired in the timeslot after Street Sharks.
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And then, in 15 years, after a 36 episode "season" spread out over 3 years on a variety of syndicated stations, it would have its rights purchased by Paramount, to become a dumb, PG-13 violent & crass version of itself with hundreds of thousands of acolytes trashing it while simultaneously putting forth their own violent & crass version of the film from their own treasured headcanon.
 
Bobby Roberts said:
And then, in 15 years, after a 36 episode "season" spread out over 3 years on a variety of syndicated stations, it would have its rights purchased by Paramount, to become a dumb, PG-13 violent & crass version of itself with hundreds of thousands of acolytes trashing it while simultaneously putting forth their own violent & crass version of the film from their own treasured headcanon.
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It would have a pretty great Jablonsky score, tho
 
Can I stand up for Monster Trucks? Everyone makes fun of the premise, but that's a wonderful idea for a movie aimed at kids. The problem is the movie doesn't do anything with the idea, and weirdly feels aimed at teenagers instead of 8 year olds.
 
Random Human said:
Can I stand up for Monster Trucks? Everyone makes fun of the premise, but that's a wonderful idea for a movie aimed at kids. The problem is the movie doesn't do anything with the idea, and weirdly feels aimed at teenagers instead of 8 year olds.
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That's kinda like Transformers.
 
kswiston said:
Code: 
[B]FILM			DOM GROSS	BUDGET[/B]
Transformers 5		$130M		$217M
Baywatch		$58M		$69M
XXX 3			$45M		$85M
Ghost in the Shell	$41M		$110M
Monster Trucks		$33M		$125M
Rings			$28M		$25M
Mother!			$20M (est)	$30M
[B]TOTAL			$355M		$661M[/B]


Wonder Woman		$411M		$150M
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Hoooooooooly FUCK

Paramount pls
 
Guys please stop mocking Monster Trucks. Everyone complains about sequels and reboots and finally a studio takes a chance on a brand new original IP and that's not good enough for you.
 
shintoki said:
I'm sure it wasn't that bad this year!
Monster Trucks..
xXx.....
GITS.........
Baywatch.........
Transformers............
mother...............


Save us Daddy's Home 2!
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If Paramount can convince Tom Cruise to do a sequel to Top Gun, they should have him do a sequel to Days of Thunder.
 
kswiston said:
Code: 
[B]FILM			DOM GROSS	BUDGET[/B]
Transformers 5		$130M		$217M
Baywatch		$58M		$69M
XXX 3			$45M		$85M
Ghost in the Shell	$41M		$110M
Monster Trucks		$33M		$125M
Rings			$28M		$25M
Mother!			$20M (est)	$30M
[B]TOTAL			$355M		$661M[/B]


Wonder Woman		$411M		$150M
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Paramount execs:
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