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This Collider piece says $14m. Not sure where they've pulled that figure from, as I don't think I've seen anything more specific than "less than $20m" anywhere else. https://collider.com/ready-or-not-2-box-office-10-million-samara-weaving-horror-sequel/

Speaking of trailers, what feels like a really early one for one of Disney's awards plays for next year dropped today. It's racked up... um... 1.8 million views in 12 hours. Be forewarned, the trailer contains vulgar language, if that bothers anyone out there.

It definitely wasn't my favorite PTA flick either, but it was definitely in the group of 2025 films I would have been satisfied with winning.

A... war movie? We're talking about Snow White here, or am I just really confused as to what you're talking about?

I believe that Snow White's score was significantly lower upon release and has slowly (and rightfully) been rising since then. It's a solid 6 or 7 for me in that I would recommend it to fans of certain other things. I don't recall Captain Marvel being review bombed, unless that happened well...

Agreed that score is insane (much like the Snow White one you cited upthread), but it's got a 5 MetaScore and is 11% fresh, so it's possible that brand of propaganda doesn't make for a formally good film. Curiously, the popcorn meter is 98%. Do we have a term for reverse review bombing?

I did and enjoyed it quite a bit, but then again I'm onboard with pretty much all of PTA's efforts (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, The Master, etc.) to date. It's pretty crowd-pleasing compared to most of his stuff, which is how it ended up being the #1 scripted movie two weeks in a row. [Note...

I'm trying to remember what movie ads I saw last night. I didn't tune into the pregame, so missed the Hoppers one. I think during the game there was: Minions The Mandalorian and Grogu Project Hail Mary The Adventures of Cliff Booth (which I don't think actually named the movie in the ad) Super...

This probably comes down to the kind of distributor/theater deals that the Ankler pieces I linked were talking about. Universal makes them take 17-day movie A as a requirement to being allowed to also screen movies B, C, & D. Netflix's movies are all the same short window (if they're even put...

Theaters do currently turn down Netflix's 17-day movies. That's why they don't play at most of the large chains. You are right in that it would be a whole different proposition if the entire WB slate also became 17-day movies overnight. Studios have theaters over a barrel in a lot of different...

Hasn't Miranda been working on new songs/music for this? (It's part of why he didn't do the songs for Moana 2.) That would imply that there will be additional sequences added, if nothing else.

Sometimes, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. My spouse and I both love it as well. Our local single-screen variety theater just showed Return to Oz a couple of weeks ago. The marquee said something like "Just a normal kids movie" above the title -- had us both laughing. Alas, we...

Right. To corroborate the timeline on this, although it may have been an open secret, allegations didn't really hit the public sphere until June 2025. So any impact to Leto's career re: casting decisions will happen from here on out. For example, he'll be Skeletor in next year's Masters of the...

Yeah, this has definitely been a thing over the past year or two for us, too. Luckily, I can sneak away from work and shift my hours to the evening if I really want to see something, but folks with rigid schedules would be locked out of these. I have to wonder if most of the movies that get...

I know this is a joke, but they did actually do a screening of the original cut through BFI earlier this year. If they did ever release that one widely, I have to imagine the curiosity factor would increase the take by some amount. Heck, I'd probably even show up for that, and I generally don't...