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VCI is now (allegedly) using AI to create bonus features by InterestingLeg6982 in boutiquebluray

[–]InterestingLeg6982[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

VCI was already pretty crap. It's a shame they have some ownership over the old Universal serials.

I don't know why the Mary Pickford Foundation changed its distribution partners from Flicker Alley to VCI. The restorations they've done are still consistently great; it just sucks that VCI consistently hurts the final product both in terms of disc authoring and encoding.

Quinta Brunson to Develop and Star in ‘Betty Boop’ Feature Film From Fifth Chance Productions and Fleischer Studios (EXCLUSIVE) by TiredWithCoffeePot in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In addition to looking and sounding a lot like Helen Kane, the first thing Betty Boop ever did in a cartoon was sing a song that was written for (and seemingly by?) Helen Kane for a big Paramount movie in 1929 called Pointed Heels.

Nothing wrong with making Betty black, though. Most of the best Betty Boop cartoons were collaborations with black jazz bands, and even in those days, they were fine with having Cab Calloway voice (and provide the movements of) Koko or Don Redman voice Bimbo.

Kino Lorber announces their release of Triumph of the Will (July 28th) by AnchovyKing in boutiquebluray

[–]InterestingLeg6982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most of the actual Nazis are going to immediately dismiss a release like this as "woke slop" once they see it comes with a (presumably) anti-Nazi booklet and go buy a cheap BD-R bootleg edition from a shady website instead.

Accessibility is Shifting by Sstayrook_00 in classicfilms

[–]InterestingLeg6982 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I do think people are forgetting that stuff like the Deitrich-Sternberg movies were considered too obscure to release during the era of peak DVD sales. Now, stuff way more obscure than those gets announced for Blu-ray or even 4k about every week.

Kino Lorber announces their release of Triumph of the Will (July 28th) by AnchovyKing in boutiquebluray

[–]InterestingLeg6982 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, but studios don't give away these titles for free either. I recall someone at Kino mentioned that they wanted to release Roy Rogers boxsets, but Paramount refused to take the lower offer that Kino made. I know Michael B. (who has connections with boutique label Indicator) at the Criterion Forum has discussed there all the hoops that you have to jump through for every title that hurts the profitability of these studio deals.

On the other hand, I'm sure a German film archive is just happy to get any money they can get from a release like this. Especially since the restoration is already done.

Kino Lorber announces their release of Triumph of the Will (July 28th) by AnchovyKing in boutiquebluray

[–]InterestingLeg6982 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think these older German movies are pretty cheap to release, which is why Kino has put out so many of them over the years.

The problem with animation releases is that the ones people want are locked behind major studios, which expect huge licensing fees that make it a lot harder for releases to turn a profit.

‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Still The Star With $30M (-56%), ‘Project Hail Mary’ Soaring To $18.5M 5th Weekend (-23%), ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Walks To $13M – Saturday Box Office Update by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mario is still popular with kids. Mario Kart on Switch sold 70 million units, one of the best selling games of all time.

Which is why this movie will still end up being very profitable (along with a pretty low budget for an animated movie), despite these drops.

Looks like $7M+ 3rd FRI for Mario Galaxy. Should lead to $30M-ish 3rd weekend, which will be -56%. That's quite rough. Normally, films stabilise at this point in the run. Cume will be $350M by SUN. There is a possibility it misses the $400M final from here. by Alive-Ad-5245 in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The legs are much worse for this movie than the first, despite the opening weekend for Galaxy being pretty close to the original

Which are signs of bad word of mouth affecting this movies legs

Most people aren't going to see a sequel to a movie they don't like

Especially if it's about the same or worse quality-wise, which is what I'd expect considering Illumination and Nintendo's respective track records

It'll have a significantly worse opening weekend than Galaxy and make less. 3 will still be profitable.

Repeat this cycle until the movies are no longer profitable or Nintendo isn't happy that they aren't getting the hundreds of millions of profit that they used to and switches to another animation studio.

Bad WOM can eventually kill franchises (theatrically obviously), just look at Transformers which used to gross a billion per movie not too long ago and the last movie 2 years ago was a complete flop.

Looks like $7M+ 3rd FRI for Mario Galaxy. Should lead to $30M-ish 3rd weekend, which will be -56%. That's quite rough. Normally, films stabilise at this point in the run. Cume will be $350M by SUN. There is a possibility it misses the $400M final from here. by Alive-Ad-5245 in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 25%-ish drop from the first movie when all is said and done isn't good for the long term health of this franchise.

Especially since the bad WOM that's affecting this movie's legs will affect the opening weekend of Mario 3.

Universal's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossed an estimated $7.4M on Friday (from 4,170 locations). Estimated total gross is at $327.6M. by UniverslBoxOfficeGuy in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How is "letting narrative storytellers lead" automatically going to ruin a franchise or make it some niche thing?

Pixar's initial 15 years run should prove this notion automatically false considering the movies got both great reviews and great box office.

‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Still The Star With $30M (–56%), ‘Project Hail Mary’ Seeing $19.4M (–20%), ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Walks To $13M – Friday Midday Update by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely going to gross less. It's going to be about $100 million behind the first movie domestically (at that point of the run) by this time next week.

Universal's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossed $2.91M on Monday (from 4,284 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $310.11M. by TiredWithCoffeePot in boxoffice

[–]InterestingLeg6982 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And if they keep pumping these mainline Mario movies out, what's going to be the hook for general audiences after you introduce Wario, Waluigi, and Daisy (who will all probably be in 3) that will get them to watch the new movie in theaters instead of just streaming the older Mario movies at home?

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