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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If anybody else like Jaynez and/or JSF wants to play the game we'll do it and we'll just mark down Second as saying every movie is going to fail since that's what he called the other day.

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Originally posted by second:
You are unaware that most movies are failures. By predicting failure, you will be a success most of the time.

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Anybody want to see if they can make a better list of predictions for 2025 than Second's blanket "they'll all fail" prediction?

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Back in the 1950s Hollywood feared that the invention of TV would destroy ticket sales at theaters.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Let's see how we do in 2025.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Man....

Even Nosfaratu carries a $50 Million bill in America in 2024 huh?

I haven't seen even a screencap of the movie, so I can't speak to where the money went, but that's just disappointing to hear it cost that much is all.

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As the curtain finally draws on 2024, it feels like a good time to take stock of the past 12 months at the movies. So what will we remember most from this past year? How about the renewed dominance of animated kids films like Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4, and Moana 2, which raked in a combined $3.5 billion at the box office? Or the unsettling leadership soap operas at Disney, Warner Bros., and Paramount? Or what about the rise of tricked-out popcorn buckets that double as mutant sex toys? All of these are certainly worthy topics of discussion, but for me, 2024 will go down as the Year of Big Swings and Bigger Misses.

As a movie critic, the question I get asked most frequently is: Why can’t Hollywood make original movies anymore? Or course, it could if it wanted to. The real answer is complicated, and it’s not one that anyone will feel very good about. In short, the town is now permanently operating from a position of fear. Producing movies has become so expensive—the average budget for a major-studio film is closing in on $100 million—that taking risks has been removed from the equation. This is why you hear people droning on and on about intellectual property. After all, virtually every film that gets a green light these days needs to be as conservative a bet as possible to justify the transparent size of the bet. Which is to say that every new movie needs to be a sequel or a prequel or a reboot or based on some other form of existing IP. Yes, the bean counters have officially won.

The fact that Tinseltown runs on flop sweat isn’t exactly a news flash. But a quick glance at the year’s 15 top-grossing movies reveals that there were precisely … checks notes … zero original movies in the bunch...

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
What the Biggest Hollywood Flops of 2024 Reveal

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/biggest-hollywood-flops-2024-reveal-15080036
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm one of 3 people in America who know who Robbie Williams is.

Dude's been trying to break into American pop culture for over 25 years now and still hasn't figured out that's never going to happen.

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I'm one of 3 people in America who know who Robbie Williams is.

Dude's been trying to break into American pop culture for over 25 years now and still hasn't figured out that's never going to happen.

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Question for Robbie Williams: From watching the documentary, I know that it ultimately ended up being a good thing for you, not being well known in America, as you were able to seek refuge there from the spotlight.

Robbie Williams: I genuinely think that I don’t know if I’d be here without it. It was a very different time, with very different aspects of a sociopathic industry, leaching from you by any means necessary, most of them illegally. And if they weren’t illegal, they should have been. I made a grown-up decision and chose to live in anonymity in North America for the last 25 years, so I can be Bruce Wayne here and Batman everywhere else.

https://time.com/7205825/robbie-williams-better-man-take-that-gary-bar
low-oasis-interview/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

That's a cool story.

But it begs the question, if nobody in America knows who he is, why waste the special effects budget turning him into a monkey on screen when he could just play his performing monkey self and just as many people in America would recognize him either way?

My curiosity is piqued on this one. Is it just a stupid gimmick, or does little Robbie have something to say now that he's all grown up?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

That's a cool story.

But it begs the question, if nobody in America knows who he is, why waste the special effects budget turning him into a monkey on screen when he could just play his performing monkey self and just as many people in America would recognize him either way?

My curiosity is piqued on this one. Is it just a stupid gimmick, or does little Robbie have something to say now that he's all grown up?

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Robbie Williams has sold all his USA houses and moved back to the UK. Robbie wants this movie to reignite his fandom in the only place that matters, Jolly Old England.

The BIG question is what was Hollywood thinking when it placed Robbie in a Planet of the Apes movie? How will that be profitable? That makes as little sense as Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown (2024), wearing a chimp costume, which would increase the cost to produce the movie and drive away serious fans.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Complete-Unknown-A-(2024)#tab=summar
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Robbie Williams sells his LA mansion for £51.6m and nets himself a £12.3m profit with his fourth house sale in two years
Published: 11:36 EST, 15 May 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13421767/Robbie-Williams
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
I discovered the Brits can still do comedy

seems these clips are 20 years old

not sure who these pop stars are but the 'story' or career makes more sense now

Robbie Williams meets Oasis and quits Take That - Star Stories

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Let me see if I can dig it up.

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Originally posted by second:
‘Moana 2’ Sparks Copyright Lawsuit as Animator Revives Idea Theft Claims

Woodall seeks damages equivalent to 2.5 percent of Moana‘s gross revenue, or alternatively at least $10 billion, as well as a court order barring further infringement of his copyrights.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
a 2024 film

still winning in 2025 Sonic 3 Blasting Through Another $16m Global up Nearly $450 Million

https://x.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1883552713084223586

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Quentin Tarantino asks himself why see a movie at the theater when it is on TV? | Jan 27, 2025

“That’s a big fucking deal pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the fuck is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fucking weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fucking year of movies. That was a shit deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And that it’s just it’s a show pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Fuck you, rich people.

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“For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things, and I don’t think the term, you know, ‘America,’ should be one of those representations," he said. Instead, he highlighted qualities such as honor, integrity, and dependability, emphasizing the hero’s moral strength over national symbolism.

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