BronsonLee
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Fury Road should be on that list too, probably at the top
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Wkd BO 0721-2317 - Slam Dunk' for Nolan, Apes escape, not rough Girl's Trip, Luc
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lightskintwin
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Avator nor Suicide Squad was over 300 million, although I remember all the rumors about Avatar being way over.
Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End and On Stranger Tides production budgets were at or over 300 million dollars.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Movie was expensive, but nowhere near the top budgets ever.
BronsonLee
Member
If we're activating Tangled Rules where reboots/pre-production starts and stops count, then Fury Road and Superman Returns are probably 1-2
PhoncipleBone
Banned
The reported budget for Superman Returns did include all the false starts though. I am not sure about Fury Road, but that I thought was just Miller refining the script/storyboards for years and not actually starting production.
EDIT: Looked closer at their Superman Returns number. Yeah, they are not using the right one. Box Office Mojo is listing the $270m budget that has been floating around for years. IMDB list is saying only $209m.
Ancient box office meme right here folks. Real ones who used to browse 8 year ago ago know.
Even knowing in retrospect how expensive Tangled would be I think it was a good investment when the toys/TV show/goodwill for Frozen, etc... is factored in.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Wasn't it rumored that Terminator 3 ended up having a budget north of 300 mil? I might be misremembering.
Lol at Amazing Spider-Man though. But in its defense, the movie did look quite good.
The Rock is MM's Earth form
Yes, $300m dom will happen.
Of course it will. Sony had Spectre in theaters for like 2 extra months trying to go from $199m to $200m, they aren't going to allow Spidey to miss to $300m.
Razgriz-Specter
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Yeah, i'd think so.
CrichtonKicks
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It's honestly one of my favorite things about him.
I think there is tendency after finishing major productions/mega successes to take an extra long time before moving on to your next project. Whether it's burnout or just fear of not being able to top your last outing. Hell it's been 18 months since TFA and is JJ Abrams even attached to anything as a potential director yet?
But Nolan is just constantly working, moving from mounting one major production into another. And considering he is involved on the writing end too that means he pretty much never takes a break. I expect he is probably gearing up to start writing his next pic already and could be shooting this time next year.
Messofanego
Banned
He looked like he was always on the verge of a panic attack in the Hobbit behind the scenes stuff.
Yeah I don't see him directing anything for a while.
Directing PTSD right there.
Lights and Waves
Member
The same Sony Pictures that optioned a script called 'Princesses', that's an Avengers esque take on classic Princesses featured in (public domain) literary classics, just a few months earlier.
EDIT - Actually, that's probably why they took this off the market, to make sure that another studio couldn't make a competing 'princess actioner'. They have done this sort of thing before.
Have you seen Tangled? It looks amazing. It also had a troubled production that stretched out for years. The directors were changed twice.
What? No. You're imagining things. Glen Keane originally wanted it to be traditionally animated, but Disney never went for that.
Lights and Waves
Member
Agreed. The webslinging and action sequences in that movie blow Homecoming out of the water.
He didn't bail to go make another movie. He bailed because after 2 1/2 years of pre-production the movie was still tangled in some legal issues so it was going to be at least another 9 months to start full on production, plus he was also getting a lot of pushback on his ideas because people involved wanted Peter Jackson's universe to remain intact. In the end the thing I guess was he didn't want to spend 6+ years in NZ away from his family.
When he left he pushed hard for Mountains to keep busy, got James Cameron to produce and Tom Cruise on board, and the movie was greenlit and then cancelled 3 weeks before production was set to start. And Universal went ahead with Cruise and the Dark Universe instead :thinking emoji:
They both got the shortest end of the stick on that one.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Can't believe the PS4 game has a cooler set piece and better looking one the the whole of SM:H.
Vault Dweller 111
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Moana and Zootopia look as good or better for $130 million less.
DarkLordMalik
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So Tangled basically laid out the foundation for Disney 3D animation resulting in movies like Moana and Frozen. They look impressive animation wise and follow an aesthetic that closely matches the trademark Disney animation, I guess.
At the end of the day, seems like it was worth it after all.
Yeah six years later, and taking advantage of all that sweet R&D that went into Tangled.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Ha! I completely forgot about this, but you're absolutely right.
They just left that corpse in the road until it drew juuuuuuust enough flies.
Jon Carter
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Not at all. John Carter is great though (see nickname), but Valerian is a very different film and it's excellent too. John Carter wins by a landslide in the acting, chemistry and romance departments, but then Valerian wins by a landslide in the creativity and imagination department. I'm not surprised that it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's absolutely not a bad film, unless you hate imagination.
Dat Wondy effect.
Man, I might have to watch JC again, but I really wouldn't call it "great". Haha you seem a bit biased though
For me, a rich visual imagination just doesn't cut it. There needs to be a solid underlying foundation of a good movie, and Valerian is just lacking everything in that department. (It's also a ridiculously sexist film, but that's another issue.)
True Savior
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Armond White Valerian's review is delicious
Frenchness baby.
Frenchness baby.
Box Office Mojo reported that the audience for Girls Trip was close to 80% female. Most of us are not really the target audience.
Along those lines, Hollywood Reporter shared exit polls this morning suggesting that only 51% of the audience was African American and that 34% were white. Best Man's Holiday's audience was 85% black on opening weekend, so this film is getting a lot more crossover.
If the audience was over 30% white, that means that more white women went to go see Girls Trip than Rough Night. It looks like quality wins.
LordOfLore
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Has anyone seen a movie called Tulip Fever yet? We're showing it here in Stockholm at our cinema but I haven't seen it yet and I'm unsure if it has opened in the rest of the world.
Stars Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, Christoph Waltz and Cara Delevingne.
Stars Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, Christoph Waltz and Cara Delevingne.
It comes out in late August in North America.
I'm seeing it tonight. Cast is pretty dope.
LordOfLore
Banned
It's pulling in an alright amount of people here. It's the "dead season" here and yet I can still sell around 30% of all seats each showing at our largest screen. We mostly do smaller and foreign movies.
2 I'd say. I'm looking at maybe weekend after next.
LordOfLore
Banned
Tell us what you think later. The fact Cara and Dane are both in it and Valerian amuses me.
I think it's the movie for which Cara shaved her head right? Good thing I don't like short hair on women that much. Not sure if I would be able to handle the cuteness overload of Cara and Alicia in the same movie.
Edit: seems like that was for another movie of her. Damn she working.
A bit longer than that, I'd guess.
With 30% drops:
Code:
Gross Domestic Total
Mon-Thurs this week $2.65M $391.7M
Weekend #9 (Jul 28-30) $3.25M $394.95M
Mon-Thurs next week $1.85M $396.8M
Weekend #10 $2.30M $399.1MIt will need drops of around 25% in the next two weeks to hit $400M by weekend #10.
Hari Seldon
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I saw someone else on gaf say it, but Valerian comes across as some type of money laundering scheme lol.
Everyone was expecting a Black Widow like movie, some trailers were going that way.
Pilgrimzero
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Honestly after the dog turd that was "Lucy" he can only go up.