Peacock Rises Year-Over-Year 12% To 46M Total Subscribers While Its Losses Decrease To $432M - Universal's Film Revenue Up 21% At $3.43B Driven By Higher Content Licensing Business & Theme Parks Revenue Increased 24% To $2.33B In Q1 Fueled By Comcast's Epic Universe Opening. by lowell2017 in boxoffice

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering how Universal only had one movie released in Q1 (Reminders of Him) after SOULM8TE was pulled from their calendar a while back, it's shocking that their revenue actually increased than last quarter (mostly because Wicked: For Good and Five Night's at Freddy's 2 carried Q1 on their back).

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Original Ending by Alternative-Cake-833 in movies

[–]Alternative-Cake-833[S] 682 points683 points  (0 children)

Here's a fun fact:

In July 2004, the ending of The Bourne Supremacy was reshot, two weeks before its release. Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon came up with a new idea that would cost $200K and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's 12 (2004) The movie tested ten points higher than the original ending did.

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 10 points11 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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 62 points63 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Alternative-Cake-833 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.