Movies you are most looking forward to
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 02:54
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I'm down on my knees in front of my autographed River Tam cover Serenity comic, bowing and chanting, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy!"
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Hey Sleepy,
I like your choices, can I add one: The Immortals
http://immortalsmovie.com/splash/index.html
Aside from sci-fi, I love epic adventure-battle movies. This one looks to be a good one in the style of 300.
SGG
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Perhaps a small overseas film maybe thriller or scifi
maybe a US indie horror production
the movie industry seemed to die 2014, 2015 to 2016, Batman Begins 2005 was considered a high culture product, you had other products Star Wars, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Iron Man a 2008 film, The Avengers 2012 film there was one big final blockbuster Avengers End Game.
What is there to watch now
Maybe some Japanese Chinese or S.Korean movie on Robots or Mutants or AI or something, Japan monster movies can be worth a view.
Too many Hollywood flops now so pretty much giving up on Hollyweird
not all will flop but the Superhero comicbook thing is mostly dead, Barbie and Oppenheimer can make money.
Some of the Video Game cartoon stuff Playstation Xbox adapted to tv / movies seem ok
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Hollywood's problem right now is the budgets, plain and simple.
Just because they're almost all flopping doesn't mean that they're all bad movies. The overall quality has certainly improved now that all the DEI departments have been liquidated and Joe Biden*'s economy killed Woke.
But we're nearly 5 months into the year and haven't even cracked 3/4 of a Billion on a single movie, and only three movies have grossed over 1/2 a Billion.
And the budgets of all of these other studios are starting to resemble the average budget for all of Disney's failures last year. Those budgets were fine in 2019 when there were multiple Billion dollar movies put out every year and plenty of movies that would get pretty close to that. Not in Joe Biden*'s America in 2024 though.
This situation is untenable. They need to adapt or die.
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Tome Cruise and an expensive CGI Aircraft battle is still a big seller, Barbie and Oppenheimer but other stuff is not selling
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But we're nearly 5 months into the year and haven't even cracked 3/4 of a Billion on a single movie, and only three movies have grossed over 1/2 a Billion.
if your profits are smaller how about trying to cut costs?
example the indie horror scifi video game or documentary stuff
or Japan,
Godzilla Minus One
Budget $11 million
Box Office $120 million?
made over ten times its own budget?
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Tome Cruise and an expensive CGI Aircraft battle is still a big seller, Barbie and Oppenheimer but other stuff is not sellingQuote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But we're nearly 5 months into the year and haven't even cracked 3/4 of a Billion on a single movie, and only three movies have grossed over 1/2 a Billion.
if your profits are smaller how about trying to cut costs?
example the indie horror scifi video game or documentary stuff
or Japan,
Godzilla Minus One
Budget $11 million
Box Office $120 million?
made over ten times its own budget?
Well you quoted my 3rd sentence but skipped the first one.
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Hollywood's problem right now is the budgets, plain and simple.
I've been railing on the budgets since I started talking about movies in the CINEMA board, but I've been banging that drum twice as hard in 2024.
The budgets are Hollywood's #1 problem now that all the woke crap was cancelled.
I brought up actor's salaries in The Fall Guy Failure Thread. If Ryan Gosling made $20 Million and Emily Blunt made $5 Million, that's an additional $62.5 Million that the production company needs to make in theaters for the movie to break even just for those two actor's salaries.
The Fall Guy cost $125 Million to make, it has grossed $144 Million worldwide so far and still needs to make an additional $168.5 Million to break even.
It likely won't hit $200 Million worldwide before it's out of theaters, and it needed $312.5 Million to break even. Even bringing the pay for the two main actors down to earth weren't going to save this movie, but about half of the studio's losses on The Fall Guy will be because of how much Gosling and Blunt were paid.
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another Godzillia-ish thing?
something from South Korea maybe
indie US movies grow, European movies, Chinese is inspired by manga and anime they have their own movie industry, in South Korea "The Tower" is a mysterious structure that is completely enclosed and hosts many unique environments, Tower of God is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by S.I.U. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform, this time Japanese copy South Korea, it received an anime television series adaptation by Telecom Animation Film that first premiered on Naver Series On in South Korea, and aired in Japan immediately afterward. According to the author, each floor is the size of the North American continent. Living on the top floors is associated with a higher status in the Tower and better living conditions. Is this South Korea's Christian story? Limbo is a concept in Roman Catholic theology12that refers to the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. This is because ascension from one floor to the next is only allowed by passing increasingly difficult tests of strength, dexterity and wit. Each floor often has its own culture, language and governance systems, and it is not uncommon to have nations living in isolation and unaware of the existence of the tower.
Hollyweird should keep their budgets under 200 Millions, its beyond a train-wreck now
Tv a lot of it jumped the shark,
seems 'The Boys' character 'Fire-Cracker' is a Texan redneck girl MTG
other movies?
I watched some 40 films at this year's Sydney Film Festival. Here are my top five picks - and one hilarious flop
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274419591/i-watched-some-40-films-
at-this-year-sydney-film-festival-here-are-my-top-five-picks---and-one-hilarious-flop
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maybe something from South Korea or China next year, some India Bollywood stuff can entertain, what else maybe small indie European or USA fantasy horror low budget art independent projects beyond Hollywood culture.
Mickey 17 is kind of Hollywood it seems to be a science fiction black comedy film written, directed, and co-produced by South Korea's Bong Joon-ho.
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Tim Burton a somewhat Low Budget well know Stars and they can't figure out how to make money on the 'Beetlejuice' brand, is Hollywood over.
Mickey 17's Release Date Shows A Lack Of Studio Faith
https://gamerant.com/mickey-17-release-date-january-lack-studio-faith/
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as for the comicbook thing
maybe not dead yet as a genre
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Gets Its Groove Back as It Passes Major Global Box Office Milestone
https://collider.com/venom-3-global-box-office-317-million/
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