What Films Are You Looking Forward To In Cinema 2024?
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UPDATED: Monday, December 23, 2024 16:52
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One of my favorite local theaters has been saying "upcoming listings" with Fall Guy for several weeks now - they must be as jazzed as I am. It comes out in May.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Did you see The Green Mile? Galaxy Quest?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't even know her background. Out of everyone in the trailer, she's the one person I didn't recognize and I wasn't even speaking of her when I mentioned how much I like the cast showing up in this movie.
Honestly, I'm always happy to watch Sam Rockwell in another flick.
I wouldn't focus too much on Dua Lipa. It looks to me to be a pretty "ensemble" cast.
From what I can see, I think that Bryce Dallas Howard would be the main character, and everybody else is supporting roles. I haven't seen her in much, but she did star in one of the best episodes of Black Mirror that Netflix made, and I thought she was great in that.
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Believe it or not, yes and yes.
I know we've talked about Galaxy Quest before. Great flick. My old man finally got me to watch Green Mile during the summer and I really wasn't surprised how much I liked it since I've always known it was one of those movies that I should have watched but never had gotten around to.
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What is your favorite Sam Rockwell film?
Moon.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I liked Tom Petty in The Postman.
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I think Argyle might be ok but part of me also thinks it looks like shit
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Personally, that's probably my favorite cameo of all time in cinema.
The Postman itself is probably the most underappreciated flick I've ever seen on a fairly long list of great flicks that the general audience just didn't get.
And then to see my favorite artist show up 2/3rds of the way in as himself and not even mention his own name was fun.
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Argylle comes out this weekend. Looking forward to seeing how it does in the Box Office.
Production Budget was a stupid $200 Million, so I'm already not too happy hearing that.
BoxOfficePro gives a 1st weekend prediction range of $13 to $21 Million and puts an actual $16.5 Million figure on it.
That's not good news at all. This could be the first major Hollywood flop of 2024, and by Universal who was the king of 2023 to boot. Why on earth would they spend $200 Million on this? They only had one film last year that cost over $100 Million, and that was the insane $340 Million they spent on Fast X.
When you spend $200 Million to make a movie, you need to gross HALF A BILLION worldwide just to break even.
Very bad decision on Universal's part here, and a very poor start to the year for them, whether this breaks even or not.
And honestly... what was that $200 Million budget even spent on other than the obscene paydays the actors get? Certainly not on special effects. That scene in the trailer with the cat flying up to the camera was pure cringe, and was the one thing that I would have left completely out of the trailer if I were making it.
Hopefully the movie is as good as the trailers make it out to be otherwise, and hopefully it gets a good international box office showing if the predictions at BoxOfficePro are correct.
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Beekeeper came out on 12 Jan, and I was glad to see it.
The week before that, I saw The Painter listed, and it only had one showing per day in town. Hadn't heard about it. Checked the trailer, and it seemed almost like Beekeeper - which were along the lines of R.E.D. or John Wick-ish (minus the criminal underworld aspect). Didn't know anybody in it other than Jon Voight. I does have quite a few plot holes, poorly assembled script or maybe just lousy editing and transitions. But the worst part was the actress Marie A. who either is incapable of acting, or else the script was so horrible that it made her seem that way. Maybe she has just gotten by for years on her looks. Too bad, but they needed to get that released before Beekeeper. Possibly still better than the dreck from the last 3 months of last year. I'm not sure if higher production values would have saved this from the script.
I.S.S. This is out now. I started noticing this a while ago, seemed like Sci-Fi so I was interested. Seems like not so much sci-fi, just a setting. Seems more like harrowing cat-and-mouse. Might be a diorama film - one setting. Might be like Lord of the Flies, or Bielko Experiment, or Escape Room type story. I missed it last week, and now it is down to one showing per day in my area, so I'll need to struggle to shoehorn it in to my schedule.
I'll need to check out Argylle soon, maybe this weekend.
Magical Negroes seems to be out now, although the poster says it was only out in December. It is listed in Green Bay as "American Fiction"
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Argylle comes out this weekend. Looking forward to seeing how it does in the Box Office.
Production Budget was a stupid $200 Million, so I'm already not too happy hearing that.
BoxOfficePro gives a 1st weekend prediction range of $13 to $21 Million and puts an actual $16.5 Million figure on it.
That's not good news at all. This could be the first major Hollywood flop of 2024, and by Universal who was the king of 2023 to boot. Why on earth would they spend $200 Million on this? They only had one film last year that cost over $100 Million, and that was the insane $340 Million they spent on Fast X.
When you spend $200 Million to make a movie, you need to gross HALF A BILLION worldwide just to break even.
Very bad decision on Universal's part here, and a very poor start to the year for them, whether this breaks even or not.
And honestly... what was that $200 Million budget even spent on other than the obscene paydays the actors get? Certainly not on special effects. That scene in the trailer with the cat flying up to the camera was pure cringe, and was the one thing that I would have left completely out of the trailer if I were making it.
Hopefully the movie is as good as the trailers make it out to be otherwise, and hopefully it gets a good international box office showing if the predictions at BoxOfficePro are correct.
VARIETY: Box Office: ‘Argylle’ Gets Caught in a Trap With Disappointing $6.5 Million Opening Day
https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/argylle-bombing-opening-day-m
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Cat’s out of the bag — “Argylle” is shaping up to be the first high-profile box office misfire of 2024. The espionage action-comedy only saw $6.5 million in ticket sales from 3,605 North American venues across opening day and preview screenings. That is not a good start for a presumed crowdpleaser with a star-studded ensemble and a massive $200 million production budget.
Yup. Just as I suspected. Bummer.
Unless this does some mad business overseas, Universal has the first major flop of 2024 after being the king of 2023. Not a great start.
Stupid $200 Million production budgets are stupid. You get what you deserve.
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Argylle posted a surprising $18 Million for the weekend after Bruce's prediction was all the way down to $12 Million based off of previews. But it only did $17 Million overseas.
$35,345,000 is the projected worldwide total for opening weekend.
That's only 17.5% of the Production Budget on opening weekend.
This movie is dead in the water. If nothing changes after the real worldwide numbers come in, and drastically, I'm wondering if Argylle will even be able to gross $100 Million before it's done.
This isn't quite "The Marvels" level flop, but it's going to make last years DC flops look good. A very bad start for Universal, the king of 2023. Hopefully this was their only $100 Million+ budget for the year. They did have both the Renfield and Fast X failures last year and still came out way on top, so it's too early to count them out. But we're looking at at least a $320 Million loss for Universal right now, if not closer to $400 Million on this one.
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I liked this review. Not sure if I like it for this movie until I see it for myself, but I like the review.
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“Argylle” is a test balloon sent up by a major movie studio to see if we’ll accept AI in movies the way we’ve come to accept CGI. Do not fall for it.
But speak for yourself though... I don't accept CGI. I was blown away by it when Independence Day came out, but I grew tired of it long before it became cool to complain about CGI. They literally ruined the prequel to The Thing that they called The Thing with it.
Practical Effects are where it's at. CGI is to only be used sparingly. This is why Jurassic Park still holds up 30 years later and The Matrix looks like an outdated video game today. And none of the movies using CGI today are putting in 1/4 of the effort that they did with The Matrix.
It's not your imagination. CGI has gotten worse over the years.
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Yeah... Looks like I was wrong about Argylle and I was suckered by a trailer for the first time in I don't know how many years. That'll teach me.
I ignored any video reviews from the usual hate-bait YouTubers, but I finally broke down and watch CriticalDrinker's review of it last night after seeing quite a few of the people I respect on YouTube calling it out.
It's very likely going to have its first sub-Million day this week on either Wednesday or Thursday. The only "exciting" thing left about this movie is seeing if it can even crack $100 Million worldwide on that $200 Million budget.
Mad props to the editor that put that trailer together. It truly is an artform in and of itself, and you managed to really get my hopes up that a decent movie was coming down the pike.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's very likely going to have its first sub-Million day this week on either Wednesday or Thursday. The only "exciting" thing left about this movie is seeing if it can even crack $100 Million worldwide on that $200 Million budget.
Yup. Less than a million on both Wednesday AND Thursday.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Argylle-(2024-United-Kingdom)#tab=bo
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$6.5 Million on its second weekend in the US and what appears to be very little help Internationally. Typically, the International total doubles after the 2nd weekend because it's the 2nd weekend plus all 5 week days. If it doubled internationally it would have $34 Million international. It only has $31 Million international.
It's got just barely over $60 Million right now.
It's about a coin flip that it breaks $100 Million worldwide now, and even if it does it won't be by much.
This movie could lose $400 Million for Universal.
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