Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
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'Gladiator II' has a net budget of $210M.
pre sales numbers? Gladiator II in some overseas markets is tracking to open -60.6% lower than Gladiator and +2.7% bigger then Napoleon which also flopped
However in other overseas markets Gladiator 2 seems to sell well and could be a hit....
...however that 210 Million is a high budget product cost?
the pin up girl from Canada
Is she a pornographic actress, maybe not but she is a movie tv star and a Pinup softcore girl, Pamela Anderson a Playboy Bunny Playmate, movie The Last Showgirl is a 2024 American drama film directed by Gia Coppola and written by Kate Gersten. It stars Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Billie Lourd and Jason Schwartzman. Controversy has surrounded her with Rockers, Tommy Lee, Kid Rock and STI STD rumors AIDs, she was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada, she has issues and told stories of abuse, Anderson decided to have breast implant surgery, increasing her bust size to 34D, she is a self made 'star' one of her starts in film tv was role as Lisa, the original "Tool Time Girl", on the ABC comedy series Home Improvement, her big breakthrough role was as C.J. Parker on Baywatch, which she played for five seasons, she has appeared in many reality tv shows like Big Brother, Dancing with the Stars, Dancing on Ice etc outside of her pip-up girl look she had to struggle to be taken seriously.
it has potential as a film from the trailer, it seems to have Blonde 2022 film vibes or The Fighter, The Cutting Edge Going for the Gold, Flashdance, Myra Breckinridge, Fatal Instinct, Strictly Ballroom 1992, Roseland, Eyes Wide Shut, Saturday Night Fever, Black Swan, Wild Things, The Wrestler 2008 film
Pamela Anderson was a sexy icon Bunny before youtubes and the internets and the Snapchats and Facebooks and OnlyFans Pronopgraphy Camgirl and Instagrams of people half naked advertising themselves online
the Hugh Hefner era, women became exhibitionists and I guess it still had 'class' before everything went trashy, the Alan Dershowitz era would come to back up the wife killers and those convicted of distribution of obscenity, a new age of interweb pornography everywhere while the Aussies now decide only 16 yr old should be on the net, avoid all the temptations of drugs, pornography, gambling other terropr extreme vices and addictions
it could be an interesting subject, somewhat like the 1920s the 'Burlesque' entertainment era
but I don't see it doing huge at box office, the topic is 'strange' maybe adult-ish
Arguably 2014's Whiplash, is a movie of similar style...however they are not 'dance' films and a male role or Mickey Rourke as a Wrestler is a different subject matter
Korean remakes of foreign hits become new movie industry trend
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/11/398_386389.html
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Did they reshoot Gladiator 2 and take all the woke shit out? I haven't heard anything about this one for ages now.
At $210, I don't imagine this one comes very close to breaking even. I think it will go somewhere along the lines of the flops we had in the first 1/3rd of the year before the summer blockbusters came out and made cash. Probably won't lose so much money it's embarrassing like Borderlands or Argylle though.
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‘The Wild Robot’ Flies To $300M+ At Global Box Office
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Gladiator II opens Nov 22, 2024 in the USA, but you can watch now for free!
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According to reports from The Hollywood Reporter, "Gladiator II" is estimated to have cost around $310 million to make, with the budget significantly ballooning from its initial estimate. (Paramount insiders insist the net cost of the 49-day shoot was under $250 million.)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/ridley-scott-gladi
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The Substance has passed 50 million worldwide
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt17526714/
it qualifies for the Low Budget thread somewhere reported 15 but others said Budgets of $17.5 million
but not sure if 'good'
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Gladiator II opens Nov 22, 2024 in the USA, but you can watch now for free!
Was it any good?
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Quote:Good? If you want to see baboons and rhinos killing gladiators, sharks eating sailors, an Emperor being assassinated, but that's not my idea of "good."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
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Gladiator II opens Nov 22, 2024 in the USA, but you can watch now for free!
Was it any good?
The movie did carry over one good thing from the first Gladiator: the sad music sung in a language I don't recognize played at the very end, when Russell Crowe is having a death dream of being reunited with his murdered wife and son and he walks across his fields of grain in the Pagan version of an after life.
The song “Now We Are Free” by Hans Zimmer from the 2000 film Gladiator is sung in an invented language called idioglossia created by Lisa Gerrard. Lisa Gerrard doesn't sing in English, but uses "the language of the Heart". “I sing in the language of the Heart,” begins Gerrard. “It's an INVENTED LANGUAGE that I've had for a very long time.
https://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/gladiator/index.cgi?read=85
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Thanks for the review Lisa Gerrard is a great sound artist, they should have paid her to write more music rather than putting raps or electronic noises in as part of Trailer of the new score or sound track. I'm not sure I will watch this movie.
I think the trailer with Rappers sound may have damaged its chances for profits
checking the new soundtrack it seems fine but missing some of that simple melodic harmonic magic in the original, I have no idea why they thought adding Rappers would make it sell better. The Rap thing seems to have been removed from the sound track.
For some reason Hans Zimmer, who had composed the score to the 2000 film Gladiator, chose not to score its sequel. When the trailer came out nobody liked the Raps saying use of modern hip-hop to soundtrack the film set in ancient Rome was jarring
a guy called Harry Gregson Williams was involved, however even though he's been involved in Hollywood for a while and even though I do listen to movie scores I can not recall a single one of his songs. Maybe they are too busy and missing that simple catchy hook or easy listening repeating melodic line that opens and draws people in to classical music or old film music and has them singing or whistling along to a catch part of the tune, his songs are very well done but its missing something basic a short riff, melody, or phrase, that is designed to catch the listener’s attention. I was listening to his stuff and I think the only think I ever rememver is Antz an animation with a sound track, it stared Dan Aykroyd, Woody Allen, Danny Glover, J-Lo, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone as voice actors.
even though Harry Gregson Williams is a skilled musician his stuff just isn't catchy it does not hook you in
Zimmer has however called him a "phenomenal composer"
https://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Gerrard
https://www.zoneout.com/gladiator-film-soundtrack-by-hans-zimmer-turns
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https://thesublimeblog.org/2024/06/07/the-voice-the-music-of-lisa-gerr
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https://www.filmmusicsite.com/en/soundtracks.cgi?id=79
from what I hear of the new sound track in quick clips it seems ok, moments of epic and Orchestra sound, a Zimmer approved guy and very skilled British composer, the Rap song in trailers that pissed off pans of the original movie was Recorded 2011 on US Billboard Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs it also received three nominations at the 2012 British Music Video Awards for Best Urban Video
does Ridley Scott still have the magic as a film maker or is the magic gone?
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 46 Critic Reviews 65 %
Not fantastic but good entertainment for some, maybe the viewers got what they wanted people fight and eaten by captured wild animals
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/gladiator-ii/
User Score or online fan votes is usually much higher but that is always the case on openings and then fan rating scores usually start dropping off
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Gladiator 2 Is a Dismal Retread—With One Bright Spot
I was not entertained.
By Dana Stevens | Nov 18, 2024 5:45 AM
Devising a logical sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 blockbuster Gladiator was not a self-evident task, given that the hero of the original, Russell Crowe’s Maximus Decimus Meridius, does not survive the movie. Rather than go back in time and imagine an origin story for Maximus, director Ridley Scott and his longtime screenwriter David Scarpa (Napoleon, All the Money in the World) have chosen to set the story a generation after the events of the first film. That choice in and of itself was not a bad one: The prequel as an excuse for franchise extension has become such a cliché it’s generated its own genre of online joke (see: calling a particularly maddening news story or social phenomenon one’s “villain origin story”). But Gladiator 2 (or as it’s spelled in the opening title, GladIIator) sadly comes off as less a reinvention of the original than a curiously literal retread of its plot beats, characters, and themes.
Did we really need the full-on naval battle inside the Colosseum to be complete with circling sharks?
If you answered that question with a hearty “Hell, yeah!” then maybe Gladiator 2 is the holiday movie for you. But I make no guarantees that a taste for bread and circuses will get you through the dramatic longueurs of this two-and-a-half-hour saga . . .
https://slate.com/culture/2024/11/gladiator-2-movie-2024-denzel-washin
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