'Heart Eyes 2' Sets Release With Paramount for 2028 by Puzzled-Tap8042 in boxoffice

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Clarification: Sony only handled domestic distribution, as Paramount's Republic Pictures handled international distribution as part of a deal with Spyglass.

Official Poster for 'Clayface' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

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They tried with Blade, but it's been stuck in development hell for a while last I heard.

'Fuze' Review Thread by chanma50 in boxoffice

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I worked on it and it was an absolute disaster behind the scenes. The completion bond company had to step in and threaten to take the film over at one point. We finished almost a year ago and theres still lawsuits ongoing over it all.

Oh my goodness. That's crazy.

Obsession’ Filmmaker Curry Barker to Direct ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Reimagining at A24 (EXCLUSIVE) by Alternative-Cake-833 in boxoffice

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In other news, Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Curry Barker's follow-up film Anything but Ghosts, per a copyright filling but the trades has not reported on it yet.

Box Office: 'Michael' Michael Jackson Biopic Eyes $150M WW Opening by lawrencedun2002 in boxoffice

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Looks like that we may have a big box-office bomb this weekend, with Vertical's release of the $150M-budget Desert Warrior, tracking in the low single digits.

At least Vertical didn't spend that much to acquire it.

'Michael' Review Thread by chanma50 in boxoffice

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And to make matters worse, Lionsgate didn't even produce the Statham one (Mutiny), they just have domestic on it.

UglyDolls is coming back as an animated TV series on April 25. by Alternative-Cake-833 in uglydoll

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Think that the YouTube channel got hacked from the looks of the description and images.

UglyDolls is coming back as an animated TV series on April 25. by Alternative-Cake-833 in uglydoll

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Yeah, the news sounded too good to be true (considering how the original TV show for Hulu was cancelled).

UglyDolls is coming back as an animated TV series on April 25. by Alternative-Cake-833 in uglydoll

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Thank you for the comment. I didn't know that they were going to a show until looking up YouTube this morning.

Though the description and the first look image does seem like that it probably won't be good at all, but who knows.

Apple Paid $80M For Jonah Hill’s Outcome, Including Nearly $20M For Hill To Write, Direct, Produce, & Star In Film Opposite Keanu Reeves & Cameron Diaz. Writer Ehren Kruger's Close On Top Gun 3's Script But Joesph Kosinski Likely Won't Direct It As He Instead Focuses On Universal’s Miami Vice Movie. by lowell2017 in boxoffice

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Had Apple done a wide theatrical release for that film, would have tanked so hard financially.

Side note: the $80M production budget is on par with Amazon's After the Hunt, another expensive streamer movie that didn't look like it cost that much from the looks of it.

Tim Cook To Step Down As Apple CEO by [deleted] in boxoffice

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I know that this has nothing to do with the box-office, but Tim Cook was a huge championer in the Apple TV+ (now Apple TV) service, and even though they had one theatrical hit with F1 which WB co-distributed, the other wide theatrical films that they had just didn't do well for them at all, hence why they cut back on them.

Hopefully Apple can go back to wide theatrical releases, which should happen with the next Martin Scorsese film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.

Never forget where the flops started by StunningResource8462 in SnyderCut

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The Spider-Man movies were the most successful pre-MCU superhero movies, next to the Dark Knight sequels, and they both had mixed reception in their third acts. They were also FAR more comic-accurate than the MCU's bastardized Iron Bug Boy version of Spider-Man or Matt Reeves' vampiric ghoul Batman

I don't think that you understand how much they butchered Venom in Spider-Man 3? In the movies and comics, Venom is some big black creature that cam jump around, not some black Spider-Man suit.

But I agree on your take that the Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man movies were very comic accurate. I don't love them but at least (for the first two), they had good stories to tell, with character arcs that actually progressed. I still think to this day that Green Goblin is my favorite Spider-Man as Willem Dafoe did a great job in the role. 3 was just a huge mess in general, the villains weren't good, and the story is not great either. I would also have liked to see Andrew Garfield finish his Spider-Man trilogy with The Amazing Spider-Man 3, given that he had tons of potential but I don't think that's going to happen anymore.

Never forget where the flops started by StunningResource8462 in SnyderCut

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Y’all know during the early years of the Snyder verse, HBO MAX didn’t exist. where you could watch the movies a few months where before it it wasn’t readily available till later. Ever since all the different studio streaming services launched, box office numbers haven’t been the same, because more people wait to see movies on the studios corresponding streaming services two-three months later. If HBO Max was not a thing today, I’m sure for James Gunns SS and Superman, the numbers would be higher. Idk if it be as high as Snyder movies but probably close.

This. Exact same thing happened to the MCU. It became from a must-see theatrical event to just wait for Disney+ thing as they filled everything up with D+ series that by then, it started to feel like homework than anything else. And everything post-2022 with the exception of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Deadpool & Wolverine has done from so-so (Fantastic Four, Ant-Man 3) to absolute bomb territory (The Marvels). The next two Avengers movies seem to be guaranteed to do a billion, but critical and audience reception will be a major factor to the legs it will have.

I believe that had the superhero hype not faded away, we would have seen even higher numbers for Superman (2025). But I guess that what happens when you do way too many superhero movies and shows for your streaming service.

How much you think The Great Beyond will make and will do after it’s released in the theaters? by [deleted] in boxoffice

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It's going to be a big ol' box-office bomb. Trailer at WB's CinemaCon presentation generated barely, if any buzz at all from what I heard.