I always defer to Dustin on this issue: Eon opens up the toy chest, spills the contents out, and then sees what can be made, with potential additions from current collaborators.
The result, as @secretagentfan notes, doesn’t always work, but they persevere. For the record, it did not always work when Hitchcock or Kurosawa emptied their toy chests either.
Good for him. I really like Krasinski in the role. The show itself sadly went down the usual ‘CIA vs the Terrorists’ rabbit hole of frequent shootouts and cqc shenanigans, everything you’ve got on your spy-show bingo card, twice and with the usual cliffhangers. But it’s still more entertaining than many other shows or films in the genre.
More Brosnan, always welcome.
(Paramount+ execs run to look if they need Coppola’s permission to make a Godfather prequel)
Just make him an offer he can’t refuse.
And M:I 8 has a cost of 400 million, 100 more than DR.
Yeah, financing Bond is much too risky…
“Here”
A $5 million opening weekend for a Zemeckis/Hanks movie on 2,700 screens?
Wow
I had to drive to another town and go to a different theater chain to see “Here” because my local AMC theaters weren’t showing the film. I go to the theater, a lot, 50 to 60+ films a year. I only saw the trailer play in theaters a couple of times. I wouldn’t be surprised if people just didn’t know it was out.
Despite the overwhelmingly negative reviews I actually quite liked it and appreciated them trying something different.
Making my point: the adult audience has not returned to cinemas, and opening this film on election week is as baffling a choice as opening Eastwood‘s new film only on a handful of screens.
Also older audiences tend to wait until a film has been out several weeks before they go see it. Unfortunately cinemas can’t afford to wait for them to show up thus films that would appeal to older crowds get pulled sooner because nobody came to see it. Eventually theaters just stop booking those type of pictures and studios stop making them.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told my father that if he wants to see a movie he needs to do it in the first week. Honestly he would miss seeing Bond in theaters if I didn’t take him myself.
As for Juror #2 if WB rolled out a wider release for over November/December I think it would do quite well. I’m hoping the positive buzz and articles criticizing WB will get them to reconsider. Especially since this could be Eastwood’s final film.
Thanks for the link to the review SAF.
Loved this line: “She’s supposed to be the grounding force that humanizes Redmayne’s character.”
Guess Fred Zinnemann never understood that the Jackal had to be humanized. Slacker.
Anybody caught the promo interview/game Craig and his costar did for „Queer“?
The young guy is asked „How many Bond films did Daniel make?“
His answer: „Too many.“
Craig laughs and nods. And when he is asked how many he claims at first to not being able to remember, laughing again. He then acts as if he is counting them, at least coming up with the correct number.
I know, this is all just „fun“ and an attempt to further distance himself from this „not so important past era“.
But it goes to show a lot.
I did see that. Craig definitely seems to me like he’d fall into the “don’t meet your heroes” category.
