!television@lemm.ee and !animation@lemm.ee

It sounds like it’ll work for me, being a big Gunn fan, but this feels increasingly risky as the Gunniverse relies on this being a hit.

There’s a lot of reasons there:

• Oscar winning directors get too much of a free hand on budget and runtime - Mikey 17 was really good but with that budget it was doomed to, at best, break even.
• They get offered big projects they may be unsuited for - there was nothing about Nomadland that said Chloé Zhao was ready to direct a blockbuster Marvel movie and it just felt like a cynical exercise to get a bit of indie cred. I doubt she had much creative freedom on The Eternals and would be interested to hear her story about that project when enough time has passed.
• They decide it is a good time to get that passion project greenlit and out when it stood a better chance of finding an audience - I’m a big GdT fan but his Nightmare Alley didn’t do much for me. I like all.of his films but would rank that somewhere towards the bottom.

The ones who go against this trend have won for bigger budget films and then dial it back and make smaller, more personal films which can get done on a lower budget but will get extra eyeballs because of the Oscar win and so can turn a profit.

That said, the “curse” may be no bad thing. I suspect Bong knew Mickey 17 wouldn’t cover the costs but felt like this was his chance to get an expensive film made on the studio’s dime. He may even have enjoyed the idea of an anticapitalist film getting a great reception but costing a big American studio money. He’ll not have any problem getting future projects funded because of this, they may just have a more modest budget.

I’m looking forward to this but fear the trailer may have shown too much.

No, the movies with their earliest appearances in are copyright, so they aren’t public domain until those films are.

That would be a daft thing to do as it seems so tied to WB but:

it is worth noting that the original Looney Tunes animated shorts, which ran from 1930 through 1969

A lot of these are public domain already because their copyright wasn’t renewed. For those under copyright the public domain wall is approaching:

The earliest currently copyrighted Warner Bros. cartoon, “Ride Him, Bosko!”, is set to enter the public domain in 2028.

So, while some later cartoons are PD, some first appearances of classic characters (albeit often in unnamed and prototype form) aren’t but the wall approaches:

• Porky Pig - first appeared in “I Haven’t Got a Hat” (1935) - PD in 2031
• Daffy Duck - first appeared in “Porky’s Duck Hunt” (1937) - PD in 2033
• Elmer Fudd - first appeared in “Little Red Walking Hood” (1937) - PD in 2033
• Bugs Bunny - first appeared in “Porky’s Hare Hunt” (1938) - PD in 2034

I didn’t think Twisters was too bad.

Now that’s the kind of ambitious thinking that can get things done.

Batgirl was written off. A friend was contacted about coming in to help finish the VFX but they scrapped the film before he could even sign the contract.

Judgment Night - definitely wins in a debate about the biggest disparity between the quality of a film and it’s soundtrack.

I’m definitely up for this.

Right now she is reluctant because English is her 4rth language and especially older movies are using language differently too, but one day she will give in :D.

Turn it around and watch films in the languages she is comfortable with.

If you let us know what they are (and if she has any red lines, like “no horror”), I am sure we can rummage up some good suggestions.

I thought that was Nic Cage.

Yeah, bit underwhelming.

It was pretty inevitable.

Good stuff. 👍

At least Deadpool & Wolverine made a lot of cash, Red One didn’t do well at the box office, although it was more entertaining than I was expecting.

Yep, Martyrs (2015). It’s pretty bad and best avoided.

Yep, we’re still Europeans despite Leave’s best efforts.

I suppose I should start with the horror movies that got an, often inferior, American remake:

• The Wicker Man (1973)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Nightwatch (1994)
• Funny Games (1997)
• [•REC] (2007) - Quarantine
• Martyrs (2008)
• Låt den rätte komma in (2008) - Let The Right One In
• Somos lo que hay (2010) - We Are What We Are
• Ich seh, Ich seh (2014) - Goodnight Mommy/Mummy