This is true in some circumstances, but I think certain actors still have more immediate drawing power than others. It's impossible to definitively prove, of course, but Scarlett seems to be one with considerable drawing power. Granted, she's only had one intended money-earner where she was the primary draw, but its…

You're selling "Thor" more than any actor there, though, and Marvel had already established its success at that point, so you're selling the studio as well, and finally, selling an increasingly reliable genre of superhero film. A better comparable would be a big budget picture of a riskier / lesser known property.…

This is the core of the issue. It even happens in smaller films based on the true stories of actual Asian people. Most of us, I think, know of the debacle that was 21, but it's ever irksome that it ended up starring Jim fucking Sturgess, who could probably walk through most malls in America right now with hardly…

I think you can build up an Asian-American movie star, but one is not going to be placed as the lead of a 9-figure film that isn't already an automatic cash-in. If it was a Marvel property, I'd (in theory*) have more faith it could happen, because you can sell the character and studio more than the actor. But for…

In this case, regarding Scarlett getting the lead, a live action Ghost adaptation with a 9-figure budget probably doesn't get off the ground without a bankable female lead, and unfortunately, we don't have any Asian bankable female (or male?) leads. I don't necessarily have faith that if an Asian female superstar were…

It doesn't strike me as terribly negative so much as cautious. I think the little sprinkled teasers were more effective on selling the show. This trailer is decent, but when the expectation is for excellence, it's understandable to me that some people would find it underwhelming.

It's a good poster, and given the general state of posters for major film releases these days, "good" indeed looks a lot like wonderful.

Me as well. And it looks like at least a reference / vision of the fire made the cut.

Yesterday I went to run the trails at my favorite nearby park as soon as it opened. It was my first time being the first person there, and as I ran the main loop I soon realized that the early arrivals apparently break up unseen spider webs stretching across the trail at various points. Holy shit, I must have run…

And move us where? Minnesota? Michigan? After the last election, no thanks.

It is weird that any time this sort of thing comes up, the reaction seems to be "yeah, get rid of this entire region" instead of "get rid of the specific people we don't like from that region." Maybe saying it that way would make people more uncomfortable.

Of all the pictures I've ever seen of human beings sitting around a table, this is the most…. human.

I mean, I know you're a scientician and all and make that big scientician money, but sometimes movies can still make a billion worldwide even without you shelling out your usual $500-million for that Super-AVX-SkyMAX ticket.

It probably has something to do with my interest in maritime disasters, shipwrecks, and general water-based mayhem, but as stupid as the last 3 of these movies have been, they still come up with some pretty good visual carnage.

For a dollar?

Naming an all-time worst sports movie after the nickname of one of the most legendary college basketball teams ever elevates this debacle to something uniquely criminal.

It'd be funny if Cracker Barrel could respond to Brad with, "Because of that thing you did. You know what it was." And then just leave it cryptic like that.

Unsure if you're serious but…. from what I see above, this isn't "internet getting mad", but is instead "(many people on the) internet finding some random thing funny for some reason."

Only if she's modeled after Judi Dench.

I don't know what either of them are supposed to be age-wise in whatever timeline this is set in, but I think they both started as characters under 18. And once the name sticks, trying to re-brand under a different name is just more difficult than trying to keep the name up with the aged-up characters, especially for…