Hollywood's Abysmal 2023 in Numbers
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UPDATED: Friday, August 2, 2024 09:17
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So you've said.
About 10,000 times.
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Quote:Tough shit for you being a Trumptard but you earned the afflictions.
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So you've said.
About 10,000 times.
Coming April 19th, 2024: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Ungentlemanly_Warfare
World War II, Filmed in Turkey, Nazis, Action Comedy
Source: Based on Factual Book/Article
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ministry-of-Ungentlemanly-Warfare-Th
e-(2024)#tab=summary
Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming. The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely unconventional and utterly “ungentlemanly” fighting techniques. Ultimately their audacious approach changed the course of the war and laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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This is the 2023 thread dummy.
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Quote:This movie was a 2022 movie, then a 2023 movie, then . . . it doesn't matter because Hollywood finally decided (at the last second) to send The Tiger’s Apprentice directly to pirates for free:
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This is the 2023 thread dummy.
https://yts.mx/movies/the-tigers-apprentice-2024
The Tiger’s Apprentice is going to TV on Paramount Plus.
Domestic Releases: January 19th, 2024 (Canceled) by Paramount Pictures
International Releases: December 21st, 2023 (Canceled) (Italy)
January 11th, 2024 (Canceled) (Australia)
January 11th, 2024 (Canceled) (New Zealand)
January 18th, 2024 (Canceled), released as O APRENDIZ DO TIGRE (Brazil)
January 19th, 2024 (Canceled) (South Africa)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tigers-Apprentice-The-(2024)#tab=sum
mary
It started out as a live-action/CG hybrid television film adaptation of the novel in the late 2000s, but it never came to fruition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tiger%27s_Apprentice_(2024_film)#Dev
elopment
Rated 55 out of 100 at https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-tigers-apprentice/
89% Audience Score / 50% Critics Score at https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_tigers_apprentice
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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They can't all be Paw Patrol.
Hopefully Paramount didn't spend Peter Pan and Wendy money on that.
Nope....
https://slashpage.com/tiger-apprentice-full-movie?lang=en
$70 Million vs Disney's loss of $170 Million.
They probably should have ate that cost last year since they already lost nearly $600 Million in 2023.
https://filmyap.substack.com/p/the-tigers-apprentice
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The animation is decent, with a very sharp, detailed look that still retains a certain cartoon-y aesthetic. Similarly the voice work is emotive and engaging, and includes some “name” actors including Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh.
Unfortunately, the storytelling doesn’t have the same level of polish.
Directed by Raman Hui from a screenplay by David Magee and Christopher Yost (based on the novel by Laurence Yep), it’s a fast-paced, slapdash and often confusing affair that will probably leave anyone older than kindergarten age underwhelmed.
If you don’t include the credits bonus scene, the movie comes in around 73 minutes. It feels like it either needs to be much shorter or longer.
Why don't they go back to good storytelling instead of making identity the only selling point?
I'd watch Spirited Away for the 5th time, or rewatch any single production from Studio Ghibli I've already seen or delve even deeper into their catalog of things I haven't seen before I spent 1 minute watching The Tiger's Apprentice.
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Quote:From that same page, here is a sentence that does NOT make sense:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nope....
https://slashpage.com/tiger-apprentice-full-movie?lang=en
$70 Million vs Disney's loss of $170 Million.
They probably should have ate that cost last year since they lost nearly $600 Million in 2023.
"Warner Bros. is continuing to beat out Warner Bros. and Warner Bros,, over the New Year’s holiday weekend, with “Tiger's Apprentice (2024) ” now rising above “Tiger's Apprentice (2024) ” and “Tiger's Apprentice (2024) .”"
I think that page was written by an A.I., one that makes up fake numbers to fill in blank spaces such as $70 Million for the cost of making The Tiger's Apprentice.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I only cited it because it had the production budget listed. It very well may be completely made up. I can't seem to find anybody else who is listing the costs. I'd say it cost at least $70 Million since they're hiding that figure now that it released on streaming only.
The article probably was written by A.I. A large amount of the so-called "movie critics" that have been mindlessly shilling for Disney for years now are already out of their jobs with more layoffs to come. Nobody is taking any of them seriously anymore, and they know it because the ones who haven't been fired yet have all turned on Disney and identity politics so A.I. doesn't come and take their jobs too.
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The Iron Claw arrived in theaters Dec 22, 2023 in the US, and Dec 21 in Germany.
It has finally arrived at the Pirates. Only 54 days between Dec 21, 2023 – Feb 13, 2024
https://psa.wf/movie/the-iron-claw-2023/
https://yts.mx/movies/the-iron-claw-2023
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $35,302,251
International Box Office $2,972,368
Worldwide Box Office $38,274,619
Production Budget: $15,900,000 (worldwide box office is 2.4 times production budget)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Iron-Claw-The-(2023)#tab=summary
Too bad about the low ticket sales for a well-reviewed movie.
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-iron-claw/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_iron_claw_2023 94% audience score
Main character is Zac Efron, who played young Simon Tam, which connects Firefly to the movie.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Only needs less than $1.5 Million to break even. Probably not going to get it though.
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The most Hollywoodish movie I ever saw, when it was new in 1962, was Lawrence of Arabia.
Domestic Share: 53.6% (domestic box office/worldwide)
Production Budget: $15,000,000 (worldwide box office is 4.7 times production budget)
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/lawrence-of-arabia-re-release/ rated 100%
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lawrence_of_arabia rated 94%
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lawrence-of-Arabia#tab=summary
It is about time that Hollywood makes a Lawrence of Arabia sequel: Lawrence after Arabia.
I was surprised to learn Hollywood made the sequel not once but twice:
1) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_dangerous_man_lawrence_after_arabia
2) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lawrence_after_arabia
Funny, but neither made any money because one of the sequels was not released to theaters.
https://www.the-numbers.com/custom-search?searchterm=Lawrence+After+Ar
abia&searchtype=simple
There are no featured reviews for A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia because the movie has not been released yet to theaters.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_dangerous_man_lawrence_after_arabia
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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