the Disney-Fox merger and film/TV production/exhibition hegemony in general

I’ve seen one Star War in the last 39 years. Black Christmas has been reduced to one screening a day at 11:45pm, and both it and Knives Out are ending altogether on Tuesday. I waited for Jojo Rabbit to reach an independent theatre. My choices are not causing or supporting this behaviour by Disney.

Not gonna see the star war, will most likely continue to bitch

*34 years

Did anyone actually give a shit about Black Christmas

Women, rape survivors, Brett Kavanaugh victims, me

My local Regal theatre is showing a full slate of Star Wars, pretty bfull slate of Jumanji, and two showings of Jojo per day, 6 Bombshells, 6 Cats, four Hidden Life, and even still showing two Midway, five Knives Out, five Ford vs Ferraris, 4 Queen Nd Slim, 5 Richard Jewells...

So if you don't care about Black Christmas, you're pro-sexual assault? That's bold even for you.

Did anyone actually give a shit about Black Christmas

― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Friday, December 20, 2019 9:49 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i do! i wanna see it very badly!!!!

My comment was more directed at the fact that it's been poorly received critically and commercially, which might have something to do with its hasty exit (not directed at you Brad - report back if you see it!!)

Tbf the trailer made it look like generic nu-slasher dogshit

has a good cast, and I was curious about it, but even though it is only a loose remake, it is the second one in the last 13 years.

and the original is one I love dearly

Brad I think you will like it!


So if you don't care about Black Christmas, you're pro-sexual assault? That's bold even for you

pretty sure I said nothing of the sort tbf

even though it is only a loose remake, it is the second one in the last 13 years

it's the first one by April Wolfe! I can't imagine a closer remake would have been a better PG-13 slasher film for teenage girl audiences in 2019.

"bitching" not directed at anyone in particular.
i have tickets to see little women with the little woman on christmas, theaters even in nyc are kinda dead right now

it cold, guy

hasn’t everybody headed back to winesburg, ohio by now anyway?

ha i felt like I was missing a few good series by leaving town but can't remember what they actually were

Agnes Varda, Doc

join the Resistance

Totally normal industry which is in no way headed for a creative reckoning, you love it and you love 2 see it https://t.co/oadCfWN9fG

— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) December 24, 2019

That “creative reckoning” is never going to happen. People have been predicting doomsday for the film industry for decades.

that doesn't mean it won't happen, similar to climate change

Well they've made ME sick of superheroes and Star Wars. and i never liked the live-action remakes of cartoons.

all 3 live-action remakes this year were artistic failures -- lady & the tramp didn't even make it into theaters. i can't see them having any shelf life.

That “creative reckoning” is never going to happen. People have been predicting doomsday for the film industry for decades.

Those two things aren't synonymous. You don't need doomsday for a correction, you just need enough people to get tired of existing properties to give them a year over year dip.

Hollywood is usually fairly quick to stop riding a dead horse. They hate, hate, HATE to lose money. They are usually pretty quick to spot where the next profits will be coming from. It's why Cannes, Sundance and the other IFFs still draw the big money crowd looking to cut deals.

Just got my time travel assignment, and it's to torch Walt Disney's 1923 garage. So long Pixar.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 2, 2020

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

funny i only take orders from doctors and my wage enslavers

if you want to get rid of Pixar, you'd probably be better off torching Steve Jobs' garage in the past

why_not_both.gif

Untitled boot stamping on a human face forever

― milkshake chuk (wins), Tuesday, May 7, 2019 6:05 PM

Tiny funkopop boots stamping on our faces forever.

Reboots stamping on our faces forever.

Robin Hood featuring zoo animals voiced by Bobby Cannavale

Princess and the Frog: 2 Ribbit 2 Quit

The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe was built on Favreau convincing a bunch of executives that a middle-aged actor not long out of rehab and prison, who had described himself as "box office poison" even during his earlier 1990s heyday, would be the perfect Iron Man. https://t.co/C6tbVcTE8M

— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) January 8, 2020

TBF, I'm sure the word of Jon 'director of summer tentpole action movie smash Elf' Favreau carried some weight in that discussion.

Hollywood, I will save you the time you would've wasted on your algorithm construction and suggest that you just create scenarios that favor you haplessly tripping over your own dick, because that seems to be the secret to your success time and time again.

winter tentpole, surely

Jokes bruv, suggesting that even Favreau's CV at the time didn't give him a lot of sway in an argument about what might or might not make for a blockbuster superhero film.

I'm looking forward to these AI-generated movies, though, tbh. Harry PotterPants & the Furious 97: John Wick? starring Brad Pitt-Morgan and Emma StoneStone should be amazing.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgifimage.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2Fcomputer-says-no-gif-2.gif&f=1&nofb=1

Hanging with Mr Cooper...in Space!

William Fox nor any of his heirs haven’t had any control of the company since 1930. Fox died penniless in 1952. https://t.co/DFMZr59z22

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) January 17, 2020

Twentieth Century Pictures of 1933, merged with Fox Studios in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (the hyphen was dropped a half century later in 1985 under Australian Rupert Murdoch). For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has now claimed the 1935 merger as its founding date.

lol Zanuck finally fully erases Fox thanks to Iger

there was obviously some impressive vfx work done in this film but there's something so revealing about the the MCU that they would rather do cg instead of make-up or costuming because they don't want to be locked into having to make real creative choices on set lol pic.twitter.com/di4GRFSpRT

— josh lewis (@thejoshl) February 9, 2020

reply:

Fun fact: a very high % of the people on a film set are in unions, and basically no one in a VFX house is. A cynic might go so far to say the $22 billion annual revenue corporation wants to wrap production as quickly as possible so they can get the labor into the post sweatshops https://t.co/wb00aioWMq

— an cory (@corypalmer) February 10, 2020

via jaymc:

The US domestic box office total for the week of Mar 20-26 was $5,179. The same week in 2019 was $204,193,406.

$5,155 of that was home rentals of an indie shot in Klamath Falls, Oregon, whereby renters can direct $3.25 of their "ticket price" to an independent cinema in a handful of states.

The other $24 was for Lost In America (the new homeless documentary, not the Albert Brooks film).

Kino Lorber is doing something in that vein, VOD of new release indies and foreign films where profits are split with local theaters.

Yeah, Kino did a push for Bacarau last week, and this volunteer-run arthouse in Seattle has switched all possible existing bookings to home rental. I'm guessing that the "Phoenix Oregon" distributor was just canny enough about setting up reporting their takings.

Are you putting together the final pieces to prove that Disney Did Coronavirus, sic?

Disney+ didn't want butts on their platform so they edited Splash with digital fur technology pic.twitter.com/df8XE0G9om

— Allison Pregler 📼 (@AllisonPregler) April 13, 2020

The US domestic box office total for the week of Mar 20-26 was $5,179. The same week in 2019 was $204,193,406

The entire box office last week was $1,710 for Swallow, all at one Florida drive-in.

This week they're showing it in a double feature with Marcel Marceau Vs The Nazis biopic Resistance on one screen, and Trolls World Tour b2b with ET on another, so there could be a top 3 movies reported next week.

An Australian film was #1 for the weekend's US box office!

Jed Kurzel's Peter Carey adaptation The True History Of The Kelly Gang took $9,839 in 5 theatres.

Supposedly it's out on streaming services, but I can't find it in Canada.

this should work afaict

US only