that doesn't mean it won't happen, similar to climate change
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
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.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
funny i only take orders from doctors and my wage enslavers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
if you want to get rid of Pixar, you'd probably be better off torching Steve Jobs' garage in the past
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
why_not_both.gif
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Robin Hood featuring zoo animals voiced by Bobby Cannavale
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 January 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
Princess and the Frog: 2 Ribbit 2 Quit
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
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
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
winter tentpole, surely
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
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
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
Hanging with Mr Cooper...in Space!
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 04:32 (four years ago) link
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
― buzza, Monday, 20 January 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
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
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 10 February 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
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).
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
Kino Lorber is doing something in that vein, VOD of new release indies and foreign films where profits are split with local theaters.
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
Are you putting together the final pieces to prove that Disney Did Coronavirus, sic?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 April 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
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
― donald failson (sic), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― donald failson (sic), Monday, 20 April 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
Supposedly it's out on streaming services, but I can't find it in Canada.
― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
this should work afaict
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
US only
― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
ah, I vpn'd to look but 🤷
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
It took “Parasite” *nineteen weeks* to get onto 2000 screens. Because it was able to build word of mouth through the awards season.This is devastating news for mid-size and indie studios.— Kevin Jagernauth (@jag24fps) July 28, 2020
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
^ AMC and Universal have signed a deal reducing the theatrical window to 17 days, in exchange for AMC getting a cut of the VOC revenue.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
*VOD
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
jesus christ, no― mh, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:21 AM (eight months ago) christ― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:57 AM (eight months ago) five-baggers for everyone― imago, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:59 AM (eight months ago) Bob Iger's erection could cut steel today― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:18 AM (eight months ago)
― mh, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:21 AM (eight months ago) christ
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:57 AM (eight months ago)
five-baggers for everyone
― imago, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:59 AM (eight months ago)
Bob Iger's erection could cut steel today
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:18 AM (eight months ago)
"Given this changing marketplace, the Court finds that it is unlikely that the remaining Defendants would collude to once again limit their film distribution to a select group of theaters in the absence of the Decrees and, finds, therefore, that termination is in the public interest."
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
:/
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
damn, man
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
wow a little naive maybe??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Or, y'know, completely cognizant of the havoc this will wreak.
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
'We completely trust The Big Bad Wolf to leave this huge, glistening, scrumptious turkey roast on the counter right where it is'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 August 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
Sure would love to see that judge's stock portfolio.
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 August 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
Also, Disney phasing out physical media, significantly on the format that favours 20th Century Fox catalogue restorations
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Sunday, 9 August 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
when Disney bought Lucasfilm, as contract-holder they stopped paying Alan Dean Foster his royalties on the still-in-print original 1970s Star Wars novels (one ghosted adaptation, one pre-Empire sequel). when they bought Fox, they similarly stopped paying his royalties on the adaptations of Alien, Aliens and Alien³.
Having already had the US copyright law rewritten to suit them several times, they are now attempting to break it through precedent for all prose publishing.
They will not respond to Foster's lawyers, to his agents, or to his professional not-a-union org, and have demanded that he sign an NDA before they will respond to him: http://www.sfwa.org/disney-must-pay/
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
what??? that is... completely fucked up!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 November 2020 08:08 (three years ago) link
It is. I was just reading that last night. Apparently their argument is that when they bought Fox, they bought the assets but NOT the liabilities. Insane.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 November 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
Crooked as hell. Hopefully they do the right thing
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 November 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Tracer wait until you hear about the guy who coincidentally started getting a million-dollar annual stipend from a future division of Disney, after he started going to court to testify that authors don't deserve royalties, because if they'd signed non-existent contracts decades before, the contracts probably would have said they had no rights
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Does the world need to fall apart completely for Disney to die?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 November 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link