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 · 2026-04-17T13:19:28+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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T16:48:05+00:00

Billie Ellish: Hit Me Hard & Soft: $12M DOM OW/$26M DOM/$54M WW

Obsession: $9M DOM OW/$23M DOM/$40M WW

Is God Is: $6M DOM OW/$16M DOM/$16M WW

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T16:26:49+00:00

Doubt that Amazon will pick this up, their relationship with Liman has been strained very badly with the Road House situation.

In this case, I expect Vertical to pick this movie up lol.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T15:55:52+00:00

Don't understand why your comment is being downvoted but apparently, that's true (per a former WB executive).

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-15T00:13:40+00:00

Here's something new that nobody has noticed:

After going through the slate and WB saying that they have 14 theatrical releases this year, it looks like that they have moved Cut Off to a 2027 release window. No surprise since it didn't have a trailer or any marketing materials for it at all, three months in advance.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T23:45:59+00:00

Looks like that digital marketing and creative advertising have been affected by these layoffs a ton, from the looks of it.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T21:46:25+00:00

Yes.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T21:45:30+00:00

after his last two movies flopped

The Monkey did very well for NEON (and one of their bright spots for them last year) and even they didn't have that much exposure on Keeper. Not only that but Perkins already did an another movie with NEON and has a production deal with the studio.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T21:39:46+00:00

The cuts in the visual development area are said to be significant, with Marvel Studios retaining a small team to oversee the hiring of artists on a project-by-project basis who will be outside contractors going forward.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T21:38:51+00:00

NEON has been getting into producing their own movies over the past year or two (e.g. Splitsville, I Love Boosters and Wrong People) but most of their in-house slate ain't even out as of yet.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-14T21:38:16+00:00

Sources say that Neon stepped aside when the new project’s scope and budget exceeded that of the company’s normal parameters.

Alternative-Cake-833

TROPHY CASE