Lucy pulled in ten times its budget. He has some equity already. He probably won't get hired to direct another mega-blockbuster vehicle anytime soon, but he'll be fine.

Gonna have to hope for it to catch some miraculous fire overseas, then. Otherwise, Besson's next flick will probably see its budget dialed back to Lucy levels (which did outstanding numbers at the box office, so this one flop might not hurt him too much overall anyway).

To be complete here, Wonder Woman's run is impressive, but the direct competition it faced in its second week was The Mummy, which had zero momentum and minimal buzz for a blockbuster, and was doomed to domestic box office failure weeks in advance. Then it got another bye week against 47 Meters Down (Cars 3 is in a…

My city was achieving peak corniness while that song was making the rounds, so of course when the San Antonio Spurs won the Western Conference that year, some lame local rapper did a lame localized remix about how the Spurs were the champs of the "Wild Wild West." It was every bit as embarrassing as it sounds.

No wonder Kirk left you behind. How the hell would you fit in the spaceship?

I think he owns the Brooklyn Nets.

I mean, he did publicly sexually harass his opponent's wife so… yeah, he'd probably be easily forgiven and get a TV hosting gig or something.

Only thing missing from that parody is a mention of how betting odds for Rocky shot up once everyone found out he ran to the peak of a mountain (while ditching the KGB) in the midst of Russian winter to conclude his training.

Come to think of it, I've never met an honest Stallone…

Your dad is Dee Reynolds?

Holy shit I am with this, and I am with that motherfucking poster.

That story was originally published in old-school men's mag "Cavalier," back when people apparently wanted to read some B-movie / horror-comics inspired monster fiction in between their softcore cheesecake.

He'd also made Raiders by then, so his rep was already pretty secure, I'd say. Amazingly, E.T. just elevated it even more. Spielberg's resume is pretty fucking nuts.

This has to be one of the poorest kept "secrets" / most open rumors (among people interested, anyway) in Hollywood history, and yet any story alluding to it always interests me.

Going back farther, we'll always have Jaws and The Exorcist.

Sounds a bit like CELL in that regard.

This does seem like a particularly odd movie to call out as not having any degree of commentary. And I say this as someone who generally falls in the camp of thinking too much fiction is over-analyzed and projected upon.

Goddamned hostile Arizonans.

I've been attacked by a dive-bombing bird. It's an odd experience. Ideally, you can get a pretty good story out of an animal attack. "A fucking wolf dove for my head, but I Matrix'd that shit and back-flipped into a downward roundhouse to kick its literal tail and send it running back into a different part of its…

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the article. Which is sort of embarrassing in a "Must I relate everything to my favorite works of fiction?" way.