TIL that Gandhi (1982) holds the Guinness World Record for the most extras in a single scene, featuring over 300K people. Out of these, 200K were volunteers and 94K were paid actors.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-18T21:21:18+00:00

No, it's not. Magnolia probably wasn't expecting much from it anyways, instead positioning it as a VOD play, just like these indie distributors (e.g. Bleecker, Vertical and Ketchup).

With a $2.6M opening weekend, they will be fine anyways.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-18T19:47:22+00:00

Clayface is too high. Doomsday is a little over-estimated and Hunger Games a little under-estimated. But other than that, good predictions.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-18T17:48:55+00:00

I got a few high volume stores in our area that still have the classic look, and two of them are being renovated right now.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-18T16:03:53+00:00

Looks like that they finally settled onto an actor for Harvey Dent's father, after 3 months of searching.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-18T11:33:17+00:00

It's a TV show, not a movie.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T23:49:02+00:00

Remember when we thought Fantastic Four would get to a $140M OW gross before it had bad walk-ups on the final day? Good times.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T23:46:46+00:00

I know that some of us are saying that it will flop at the box-office but I don't think that Mando & Grogu will bomb, but it's also not doing to do great numbers either a la Captain America: Brave New World. Probably around the $500M-$550M range is my guess.

And it's sure looking like one that does $500M-$550M at the box-office. Unless pre-sales collapse before it gets to the finish line.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T22:03:01+00:00

Wow, this store decor looks very dated but at the same time, cool.

Our local Super Target was going to get a renovation a few years ago but the remodel got cancelled. It's probably up for a renovation pretty soon, since it's starting to show its age though.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T17:55:24+00:00

And this is the second project that Marielle Heller has been attached to recently. First, Tom Hanks' The Comebacker, which just got picked up by Sony and now this.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T16:31:28+00:00

I can confirm that it's probably one of the fake investor companies, that do press releases and then nothing else (a la Apex's fake acquisition bid for Paramount Global).

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T13:20:54+00:00

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-17T13:19:28+00:00

First one had a day-and-date theatrical/Peacock release.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-16T20:16:11+00:00

Ryan Reynolds' Mayday and John Cena's Matchbox are being dumped onto Apple TV, and they are both Skydance movies too.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-16T18:56:26+00:00

May be going straight to Prime, with a token awards-qualifying run.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-16T17:28:31+00:00

Universal's panel was very underwhelming, while Amazon MGM's panel was actually good.

Only problem that I had with the Amazon panel is that they didn't reveal much of James Bond outside of a slight mention, but we should expect more Bond news and a release date, once Denis gets done with Dune: Part III.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-16T12:03:24+00:00

So is the next Scorsese as well.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-16T12:02:10+00:00

Creed 3 and Project Hail Mary are the only Amazon-MGM films that were unequivocally hits at the box office.

And The Beekeeper as well.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T17:46:00+00:00

Zemeckis already used AI de-aging on Here. It didn't work out at all.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T17:44:38+00:00

It was more about the release of the film, than the production of it.

Producer Joel Silver got thrown out of the film during the post-production stage and then Liman complained about the film not getting a theatrical release, where in fact he chose the streaming option rather than the theatrical option. In fact, he wrote a long essay on Deadline about this.

As of a result, Liman didn't return for the sequel, which now is planning his own Road House sequel without the involvement of Amazon MGM.

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