It's nice that MGM brought the logo back, but it really isn't the same to see it being used exclusively for low budget genre efforts these days.
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Weekend Box Office - 3•20-3•22 - I'm getting too old for this shit...
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I'm hearing Michael Keaton as Batman?
I don't see it. That movie will suck.
Michael Keaton! Dude is an okay actor, but Batman he is not. Do we have any idea who the villain will be? I am guessing they save Joker for sequels.
They're getting the Peewee's Big Adventure director, they're going all in on the camp.
Call me crazy, but I think that Jack Nicholson would make a good Joker.
This is an amazing idea for the down time.
Also, because I accidently put this in the MCU thread (because I was on mobile), just want to remind everyone when we time travel back:
Dune will probably have more competition in the future. The curse continues.
Also, because I accidently put this in the MCU thread (because I was on mobile), just want to remind everyone when we time travel back:
Dune will probably have more competition in the future. The curse continues.
Wonder Woman will be released straight to digital, and Cats: Butthole Cut straight to Pornhub.
This is a pretty fun concept, can't wait to see what next week's box office throwback is.
First time I've ever heard of that Burglar movie though. Between that movie and The Telephone which came out the following year, I guess Goldberg was stumbling around in the dark for a while between The Color Purple and Ghost.
I like to think that since they don't make tentpole/mid-budget films anymore, the Orion logo from the 1980s is (besides nostalgia reasons) the only logo they could afford to use. Producing a new logo or even retrieving the 1990s logo isn't in their budget. :v
First time I've ever heard of that Burglar movie though. Between that movie and The Telephone which came out the following year, I guess Goldberg was stumbling around in the dark for a while between The Color Purple and Ghost.
I like to think that since they don't make tentpole/mid-budget films anymore, the Orion logo from the 1980s is (besides nostalgia reasons) the only logo they could afford to use. Producing a new logo or even retrieving the 1990s logo isn't in their budget. :v
If you haven't, watch They've Gotta Have Us on Netflix. Robert Townsend talks about Hollywood Shuffle in it.
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Dream Warriors definitely started the whole funny guy Freddy bit. The first film had him quipping a lot, yet he was depicted in a deeply dangerous and scary manner, which the first sequel maintained for the most part. Unexpectedly, Freddy wound up hitting a chord with audiences and they more or less dictated the change in direction, which led to WELCOME TO PRIME TIME, BITCH and beyond. You saw the same thing happen a year earlier with Jason on Part VI, which is where he undoubtedly became the star of the series and they adjusted accordingly there for more self-aware humor. A lot of horror films wound up going in that direction by the late 80s, largely for the sake of keeping audiences that were abandoning slashers en masse prior to Nightmare giving the genre some CPR.
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Was about ready to fuck your ass up.
And Charlie Sheen went on to make Major League. Classic.
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My mom took me with her to see it; the appeal as I recall was that it was another romance/comedy/adventure film in the vein of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile. A supermarket romance novel played out on the big-screen.
I remember my mom covering my eyes when Linda Kozlowski stripped down to her thong bikini, so I almost missed the croc attack scene.
most distributors aren't even posting numbers.
The leaks are pretty dire though, with the #1 movie pulling in maybe 70k and 99.x% drops across the board.
Some of the films that went to digital this weekend are likely to make more money there than in theaters.
Right thats what I wanted to ask, dire or not I was wondering if anyone is actually reporting? Looks like no though.
I believe that they are, but seeing as there's about 300 of them at most and the very limited number of showtimes they can have, any money a movie makes on them is an utter pittance.
Not gonna lie I love Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile to this day. I'll throw War of the Roses in there too. The Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner with a splash of Danny Devito formula worked well.
For people who aren't versed in studio history, a lot of Sony Pictures is actually Columbia Pictures, which they bought in the 90s, but Coca-Cola owned for a while in the 80s.
I think I get Burglar confused with Jumping Jack Flash? I've seen them both but remember very little.
Everynow and then I remember Quantum Leap and how awesome that show was. I wish I could get the DVDs with the LATAM dub
Huh, Beetoven was on TV and I didn't realize Stanley Tucci played one of the effeminate evil henchman who work for the evil veterinarian
Did you guys hear that they want to open Batman a week after Ghostbusters II comes out? Hell, the new Indiana Jones movie is coming out around that time, too! With the way things are going (Michael Keaton/Tim Burton?!) WB might have a megaton bomb on their hands.
It still blows my mind that in the summer of 1989, the opening record was broken three times with Last Crusade in May then Ghostbusters II in June and immediately the next week by Batman.
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