I mean I don’t know how much $120 million gets you anymore. I don’t mean that flippantly, but I don’t think something like Indiana Jones cost $300 million just because they wanted to throw money at it. $100 - $150 million is like the new mid-range as unsettling as that thought is.

Just for the record now that the article has been updated - It accused Jessica Chastain as seemingly being carefree about wantonly breaking strike rules. It was unnecessarily mean-spirited to someone who has always supported actors rights.

I did mean most famous person playing a character similar to how Amy Ryan slid in and was clearly going to be a bigger deal.

While I agree it’s not a direct product of QAnon, it is notable that the veracity of pretty much all the “true” facts has been called into question with Ballard for years so I think it’s fair to suggest that they were hoping to appeal to that base and sell propaganda.

The QAnon stuff has been coming from the marketing - Caviezel very much supports QAnon conspiracies as does Tim Ballard. Additionally, many of the statistics cited in the movie including over the epilogue aren’t accurate and are embellished to align with QAnon talking points.

It’s in Federal Court because it relates to constitutional rights under Citizens United.

They threatened to sue the dance studio I taught at in college for using the title of one of their movies in our local dance production that took place in the park and rec gym.

God, I hope you’re right.

I’m hopeful Meryl Streep is a red herring. I’m sure she’s more than a simple woman looking for her big break, but I think we’re all very primed to think “she’s the most famous. She’s the killer!” and I hope we get a subversion to that.

Not the point of Oher’s stance, but studios are notorious for making that percentage dwindle to nothing by counting expenses against the box office take.

Sean Tuohy spoke to a paper and said the conservatorship was a work around to NCAA rules - basically, if you saw the movie, the whole “Are they making you go to Ole Miss?” part was solved by a conservatorship which allowed them to act as his legal guardians. Basically, because Sean Tuohy donated so much money to Ole…

She also isn’t “pitching” anything. She says Celia is a character she thinks about a lot and wishes she could revisit and would like to imagine what that relationship would have been like.

That’s all fair, but the movie certainly implied alien universe.

I know it’s way too hard to ask you to do some research before posting a link implying Jessica Chastain violated the Strike rules, but Entertainment Weekly explicitly stated that the podcast was recorded BEFORE the Strike.

I think that if it can make back its production budget and do well on Max that may be a win at that point, but I’m side eying AVClub acting like Blue Beetle is on its way to an opening weekend to celebrate. If we are going to celebrate $30 million on a $120 budget, I expect a bunch of retractions on how badly other…

J.C. Chandor’s work is a very mixed bag. I love A Most Violent Year and All is Lost as character studies, but Triple Frontier was a mess that squandered an awesome cast. I got my doubts on Kraven being anything beyond “more of the same.”

There have been reports that they fell out over money and there has been some “blame” put on Oher’s wife. I suspect his wife was the first person to be like “hey, how come you didn’t get x, y and z” and helped to spur on him discovering all of this.

The book The Blind Side is much more faithful to Michael Oher’s childhood including acknowledging that he knew how to play football, was already enrolled in the private school after being recruited and such already. The book definitely paints him as a kid who needed help and the Tuohys as his benefactors, but he…

This isn’t necessarily proof of anything, but the Tuohys were present when he was drafted. I’m sure that they probably did agree to the NFL contract, but I’d also argue that the NFL teams probably would have side eyed them getting money from that tbh.

I mean Ted was genuinely great with something to say and good screenplay.