agree to disagree.

It seems more likely that WB scheduled their big movie for that date as a “fuck you” to Nolan for leaving them for another studio.

The distributor works with the marketing department and is solely responsible for the release date. The producers don’t have any official say.

I don’t think the release date is Margot Robbie’s decision to make. Pretty sure the heads at Warner Brothers are the ones to make that decision. Nice puff piece though.

I would think the distributor / studio makes the call on when to release a film, not the producers.

I will never bet my sweet tush

I watched two minutes of Barbie, followed by three minutes of Oppenheimer, followed by two minutes of Barbie, and so forth, as the filmmakers clearly intended.

So two people who likely had no say on the release date had a brief conversation about it?

Right? This is nuts. Though I guess it is a bit different these days when movies are actually pretty expensive and everyone’s wallets are already stretched tight, maybe they can only afford one movie a week or so. They care more about the splash of who had the biggest “opening weekend,” and people are usually going to…

I think Murphy’s right that Barbenheimer will never happen again, but you can bet your sweet tush that Hollywood is gonna try their darndest to make it happen every time a pair of stylistically differing movies come out near one another.

It’s a weird thing about Hollywood. They aren’t mutually exclusive, and don’t have to compete. They aren’t concerts. Just because I watch one movie doesn’t mean I can’t watch the other.

Hark, the travails of an enterprise owned by a billionaire developing a product only for use by millionaires. I cannot fathom the intense hardship, agony, and significant societal loss should this company go kablooey, literally or figuratively.

Have you tried The Dark Urge yet? I played the whole game as a “Tav” and loved it. I recently decided to dive back in and try the Dark Urge. A shit-ton of people online seem to think, with good reason, that it was intended to be the default Create a Character storyline. I see why they say that, it does seem to offer…

They’re only repeating a bit for you? Man, I’ve visited the same H3 refinery or the same abandoned weapons facility on different planets half a dozen times, for instance.

I couldn’t even read your whole post, so there’s no way Starfield is going to entertain me for a decade.

Yep. As of this post skyrim has 21k playing the special edition (26.4k if you include the original base release + the ~300 VR players) vs starfield’s 18.6k. Fallout 4 is a hilariously close 3rd at 16.6k.

He’ll be lucky if it lasts as long as Fallout 76 has.

Hell, I think Skyrim has more daily players than Starfield RIGHT NOW.

It’s not Skyrim , even if you'd like it to be. 

He’s setting himself up for disappointment if he’s expecting Starfield to be the next Skyrim. He’ll be lucky if it’s the next Fallout 4.