Prediction: Monica Barbaro’s “Phoenix” will be sporting the mustache.

Like I said, by MCU standards. The bottom of the heap includes the first two Ant-Man movies ($130M) and Captain America: The First Avenger ($140M). Considering the top 5 each cost more than $200M and the top 3 cost $300M or more, $140M is low.

I’ll add that RDJ’s Iron Man salary was quite low, under $1M base, while Bale earned $10M for The Dark Knight, so that budget gap between those two films are actually narrower.  The point being that they’re both quite expensive.

Yeah, maybe by MCU standards, that might be low, but 2008's The Incredible Hulk had a $150M budget and The Dark Knight had $180M, which doesn’t feel that much higher. From the year before, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix cost $150M.  I’m not sure if the filmmaking approach was indie-like scrappy, but that’s…

What do you mean “no one”? I was totally game and was planning on doing a “You talkin’ to me?” bit on DeNiro, maybe a dick joke related to The Crying Game, and maybe something about boob jobs.  It could have been edgy and fresh!

Bands really need to ask themselves if they ever really need three guitars.

Looks like a double-neck Gibson Custom EDS-1275 SG.  (The top’s a 12-string.)

It’s really shocking that this famous person is polite to that other famous person.

This tornado loves you.

We all know the greatest villain is unfettered screentime.

Kangnabbit!

I thought his arc was about how he changes a small town for the better and, shockingly, the small town changes him, too.

I get Rodrigo’s appeal: her songs can be catchy and her lyrics relatable especially for younger people, and she also has a charisma and personality/persona that are also relatable and ripe for parasocial relationships with fans. I think that I just feel that the music is not for someone my age so while I generally…

I felt exactly the same way about what I saw in All The Light... It already started off not very well, then Ruffalo showed up as Kindly French Dad With Awful British Accent, and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. It became unwatchable after that. I really haven’t been all too impressed with Ruffalo…

Agreed that it’s in a way self-inflicted, but I don’t know if they’re necessarily valuing the opening-night $20 more. Maybe it’s more that Hollywood is paying attention to the costs of screening a movie instead of just the revenues. A theater collecting $2M in receipts over 3 days would be accompanied by 3 days’ cost…

Sorry, ElectricSheep. You’ve already made the exact same point.

Past Lives was really beautiful, but I’m a sucker for this category of movies. Before Sunrise came out when I was about the same age as the main characters, and it ended up being a landmark movie for me. I can easily see Past Lives having a similar impact on other people in the same stage in life as those main…

But they do kinda compete for opening weekend box office numbers. I think there are a number of people who only have time or the motivation to watch one big opening a weekend, especially if one of them is a three-hour movie like Oppenheimer. While many movies can be buoyed by great reviews and by gradual word of…

Maybe people with loud babies are just more committed to saving movie theaters.

Maybe they’ll stuntcast Wilde as Miggs in a future remake of The Silence of the Lambs.