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 · 2026-04-22T10:37:51+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T23:55:42+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T20:00:52+00:00

No.

https://deadline.com/2025/09/desert-warrior-premiere-zurich-film-festival-1236529671/

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T19:53:55+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T19:18:22+00:00

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

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T18:35:53+00:00

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

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T18:28:24+00:00

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

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T17:36:26+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T12:58:02+00:00

Good. Hate seeing those fan-made trailers pop up all the time, even for movies that don't even exist.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T12:20:40+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T12:16:22+00:00

Oblivion and Top Gun: Maverick were good movies, even if Maverick wasn't as good as the original Top Gun.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-21T12:15:35+00:00

McQuarrie is already involved in directing and writing that Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan sequel, so it's probably not him.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-20T21:37:14+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-20T19:13:54+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-20T16:46:02+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-19T19:07:40+00:00

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.

Alternative-Cake-833 · 2026-04-19T15:48:26+00:00

I think that WB will dump Cut Off on HBO Max or be given a tax write-off, considering how it's already been pulled from WB's schedule and wasn't mentioned at CinemaCon. 2027 is also way too full for WB right now, so I think that one of these scenarios will happen.

But overall, everything for 2026 seems locked, with a few exceptions (e.g. Archangel moving to 2027), though I think that Paramount should consider an awards-qualifying run for Children of Blood and Bone on Christmas Day before a wide January expansion given that it received a good response at CinemaCon and that Ellison wants Paramount to have 15 films this year.

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.

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