Some of it is weird licensing stuff and deals that were in place with creatives. There’s red tape that seems to come along with streaming stuff.

I will say that I found the Beach Boys documentary to at least go pretty hard at Murry Wilson especially in light of what he sold the catalog for relative to recent sales, but it also was clear that they wanted both Mike Love and Brian Wilson involved and welp, you’re not going to break new ground and still get them…

They’ve been promoting these documentaries all over the place especially through paid social media ads, ad buys on linear cable and articles on a bunch of news sites.

I think the actual catalyst for backlash was that some nepo babies were suggesting that being the child of famous people didn’t help them at all. Gwyneth Paltrow I think went that direction, for example.

I don’t like to be down on Gen Z, but the nepo baby discourse that has widely come from that circle kind of feels like Gen Z just discovered the world isn’t a meritocracy. Maya Hawke is right - she doesn’t deserve her career, but neither do most people. I do think actors from families of actors probably need to be…

That’s the industry standard.

People are of course complaining about him not being allowed to do and say whatever he wants, but the reality is that he can do and say whatever he wants, but the people who paid an organization to see a talk that was supposed to be about Jaws also have the right to be pissed and demand their money back. 

Two times budget is deemed a success. Three times is deemed profitable. So for Garfield to make money it needs to make 3x it’s production budget (in large part because in this case I’m sure Pratt has a backend deal).

For the box office to rebound (i.e. be back where it was), it would need to exceed 2019 - the last pre-pandemic year before the 2020 closures. If you use your own YTD link, Box Office Mojo shows that the 2024 box office is 42% behind where it was in 2019. AV Club doesn’t want to let me add the image, but this is from…

I think you are taking an overly optimistic interpretation of the numbers you just shared particularly as the previous years do not appear to be adjusted for inflation. A box office still 42% behind 2019 without adjusting for inflation is in trouble. The numbers actually suggest last year was the anomaly. 

If Taylor Swift is truly in it as Dazzler, I imagine her fans alone will push it up high (I’m mostly kidding on that point).

To make a profit, it’s going to have to make $180 million.

Some of it is likely a cycle: people don’t go to the movies, people don’t see the distant trailers and teasers so people don’t go to the movies.

And let’s be real: Too Old Gibson probably could have still gotten the Harrison Ford revisits his greatest hits treatment. It’s the problematic part that kept him out. 

I think it’s possible to have a Mad Max franchise where each movie is just its own thing as opposed to an ongoing plot, similar to an anthology. I think the issue is that it is trying to have it both ways by incorporating canon sometimes and not others. That’s what leads you to be like “Wait, what...”

A movie being bad is rarely a correlation to it not making money. If might be bad, but that doesn’t always impact opening weekend especially of a family/kids movie. The family box office has taken the biggest hits and AV Club et all has spent two years trying to pretend otherwise.

Well, places like the AV Club keep insisting it’s just changing tastes and pretending it’s not a massive trend so I’m sure the corporations are also lying to themselves.

Wolverine and Deadpool is probably going to make bank regardless of how people feel about the MCU. It was moved from Memorial Day Weekend to July because of the strikes, which are a factor.

The part where some of his victims like Anthony Rapp were allegedly very underage is problematic no matter how common. Even if he was acting out things he had seen or had done to him, that doesn’t change that it can lead to people not wanting to support him or watch him or work with him. Such are the consequences. We…

I’m wondering how fast they are going to burn through the back half of Interview.