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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...

For sure, I was not intending to get particularly specific, and as you point out China is the single biggest overseas market. I haven't looked to see if there's been a general softening in, say, western Europe or Latin America vis a vis this type of movie as well. And then the question of how...

See also the commoditization of modern special effects. Not sure I'm parsing your thoughts correctly, but is anyone actually surprised by the international markets pushing back against "American" products like superhero movies? For someone who likes to talk about brand damage a lot, it should...

Finally saw Elio, and my spouse and I both enjoyed it a ton. Nice nods to Close Encounters in there and I'm always happy to hear Carl Sagan featured (2nd time this year, also in The Life of Chuck). I think it really landed in a good place story-wise. If you weren't paying attention to the...

Also, TP's numbers are the adjusted prod budgets, which makes Gunn's movie the 2nd cheapest* Superman movie ever made. * This is a little fuzzy since Superman 78 & Superman II was a dual production for the most part, so attributing cost to one or the other is a little silly.

That's only a million episodes streamed a day and there are a lot of boomers out there. The MeTV daytime airing of Gunsmoke reportedly pulls in 600,000 viewers daily. Seems plausible to me, but we're far away from box office talk here. This all probably should have been in the Nielsen thread.

Or it's retirees like my dad who are actually sitting around and watching stuff like Gunsmoke on the regular. Not background for them (unless you count alternating between actively watching and napping as being on in the background), although I am a little surprised that one of the modern...

Gunn's been pretty explicit from the jump with DC about requiring approved, completed scripts prior to starting production, which is why they currently only have two confirmed movies (one of which wasn't even in their original plan) lined up post-Superman. This has definitely been the MCU's...

They're not merely financing flops. They're helping to finance their entire slate of movies with monies derived from streaming, so that, you know... they have more they can put on to those platforms in the future. Some parts of that slate end up being winning lotto tickets that also help the...

Yet that probably represents more people watching it than saw it in North America during its entire theatrical run. [Note: Not an endorsement of either number being good.] NA BO: $87m / $11.31 (avg ticket price) = 7.7m theater goers Streaming: 581m mins / 109 mins (runtime) = 5.3m views * 1.5...

The way I read the end-of-year Deadline pieces (and other folks can correct me if I'm wrong here) is that it's literally recording (or perhaps merely estimating) the amount that Disney+ (and other outlets) is paying to the movie production side of Disney for that particular title. TP, etc. like...