So long as my local theater has reserved seating, I’ll continue to show up 20 minutes late, skip all the actual TV commercials, and be just in time for the movie.
Maybe they should start with “what do audiences want” versus “how can we make more money”?
I wasn’t crazy about The Day The Earth Blew Up, but I’ll check this out when it’s released here.
The company may attribute their bankruptcy filing to the legal fight with WB in order to make itself look like the victim and deflect blame from itself, but the actual culprit was just plain spending too much money, to the point where they weren’t paying screenwriters. Village Roadshow took on a bunch of debt to finance this debacle:
Former Sony executive Steve Mosko, who joined Village Roadshow in 2018 as chief executive, left this year. He had attempted to build Village Roadshow into an independent studio that produced its own movies and television shows.
But the Mosko-led campaign to remake the company into a full-service studio proved costly and untimely.
Village Roadshow put into development 99 feature films, 166 scripted television series and 67 unscripted series. Of those, six movies and seven television series went into production. “No film or television series that was produced was able to create a profit that could sustain the studio business,” Maib wrote.
So Mosko cratered the company with a half-baked plan and then danced away without consequences. Variety says:
Mosko, well-liked and deeply experienced, will have his pick of new corporate jobs. Some individuals close to his thinking said he may take a stab at producing on his own.
Also note:
Village Roadshow’s library assets generate about $50 million a year in revenue, according to Maib’s declaration.
They literally would be better off if they had just done nothing.
“I also struggle with loneliness a bit. I always felt quite alone in a crowded room, like I was just one of a kind, like nobody ever really understood me.”
On the other hand, she could struggle with this and not be rich. So it probably worked out pretty well for her.
I don’t think it really matters much. For example, Chloé Zhao doesn’t seem to be having trouble getting big names to line up to fund or star in her next project (a dramatized tragic moment in the life of William Shakespeare). I suspect most blame the failure of The Eternals on other factors (like the terrible script), not her. I further suspect that the house it probably paid for is more than enough to make up for any twinge of disappointment she has that it didn’t please the fans.
Tomorrow I’m seeing The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie before it leaves theaters. I like to support 2D animation on the big screen, and I’m not really into horror movies or Statham action movies.
For those who might be interested, Paul Rudd stars in Death of a Unicorn, and David Harbour and Michael Peña are in A Working Man.
What is WB even doing? With the Discovery merger they’ve destroyed HBO as a brand, and now they want to sell the most iconic thing about their studio
Most new movies are not those things, but likely most new movies you’ve heard about are. They’re the only ones that get any real marketing spend behind them.
Where on earth do you live that the cost of a movie ticket is over $50
No one:
AMC: Let’s add motion sickness and smell-o-vision
Yeah, I’d expect it on opening night (I go later). But the drop-off for many movies these days is huge.
That’s “look under the couch cushions” money for Apple
Granted, I saw a weekday matinee, but there were only 3 other people in my IMAX theater. This has been the case with every movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I can’t remember the last time I had someone sitting next to me in a full theater. Barbie was half-full. Maybe 2021 when theaters reopened?
It deserves to be seen
I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.
Studios are creatively bankrupt.
Yeah, I had the same thoughts about where her character was going, and that either her character arc was cut for time or got lost in a rewrite.
But the really weird thing was how Bong portrayed her as a little unhinged when she was shooting the baby bug: no restraint and no expression. They made sure to show her face at the end of that scene after the baby had been turned into hamburger, and it seemed a little intentionally unsettling based on the context.
When they depicted Nasha as a little unhinged as well, I was wondering if they were saying something about future soldiers. No, I guess, based on the ending. Nasha just gets homicidal about Mickey, and who knows what’s up with Kai because her character failed the Bechdel Test and then disappeared.
No. “Objectively bad,” lol. At least make an attempt to distinguish your opinion from objective reality about a subjective medium.
I think it was pretty OK, not bad, a few odd pacing choices. The biggest flaw was how underdeveloped Kai was. She was set up in act 1, had a lot of screen time in act 2, then completely disappeared from existence for the entire last act except for one brief “oh yeah, here’s Kai” shot at the end.
Some of the on-screen violence against the baby bugs was repugnant, but it was supposed to be, so I’ll forgive it.
Otherwise I thought Pattinson did a great job realizing his characters and the overall plot worked pretty well as a movie, without being too simple or too complex.
I remember reading about this guy years ago and at the time the reaction from Netflix seemed to amount to, “You got me! Good one.”
His real problem is that he didn’t steal $11 billion—then you’re apparently untouchable.
Pneumonia. RIP.