Heard that the release of the latest Bill and Ted film has been moved to 04 September with a simultaneous release at cinemas and on PVOD. Test case for other movies?
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I find herā¦grating and sycophantic
But, yes, positively or negatively, this WILL have an influence over NTTD
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Bloody hell! Never seen her before but she seems to be channelling Joan Cusackās role in Grosse Pointe Blank.
I saw her, oddly, just this morning, talking to Zack Snyder about his Justice League cut for HBO max.
Youāve never seen someone suck up so hard! Snyder actually looked uncomfortable
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I bit. I shouldnāt have.
God, sheās unbearable.
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I am so sorry. Heās seriously cool, sheāsā¦not
No argument from me, but she has been a reliable source of news.
Her info is good. She herselfā¦a wee bit much
I think that if they made the price somewhere in the $50-$60 dollar range, and made it clear that a certain percentage of the proceeds would go to some kind of Coronavirus relief aimed at the workers who are out of work due to cinemas being closed, that there could be some traction there that might yield a decent profit for them, in addition to theatrical releases in the global market where the virus situation makes sense for it.
For your bigger budget films like Bond, I almost have to think that just turning a profit of any size should be considered a win at this point. If they can turn around and say that they got to the other side of this without losing any money, that would be a win. Between that and the considerably smaller budgets that they will need to be using when it comes time to make another film, it might not be the complete disaster that they might otherwise be staring at.
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I really think that a relief package tied to the home video release of NTTD would put MGM ahead of the other studios which so far only repeat the mantra āWE BELIEVE IN THE CINEMA EXPERIENCE, WE BELIEVE IN THE CINEMA EXPERIENCEāā¦ only to turn around and make the inevitable decisions anyway.
But hey, this is business. And MGM would probably tell us: what are you smoking? WE need the relief package. Our yachts are in desperate need of new paint!
Her voice can be somewhat grating, but overall sheās pretty good. Or maybe Iām just biased because she actually liked The Last Jedi.
Total props for that! The Last Jedi is the best of all 11 Star Wars films!!
How dare it break the Lucas rules! 
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For fear of getting off topic, Iāll quickly mention how Iāve said quite a lot that The Last Jedi is LEAGUES better than the embarrassments that are The Force Awakens and the utterly abysmal Rise of Skywalker.
And when you really think about it, he mostly didnāt. The Last Jedi is more a Star Wars movie than either of the other 2. Itās the only one that actually depicts a STAR WAR! How did either of the other 2 not feature space battles? Star Trek Into Abrams was brimming with themā¦
I totally agree!
Abahms made (VERY GOOD) fan fics.
Johnson made a true movie!
But you can easily track my love for Rian Johnson. I am bias.
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Another delay:
I had to look it up and was shocked that itās been eleven years since Avatar was released. At this point, Iād honestly be surprisedif these sequels ever get made.
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Not entirely sure why we need five Avatar movies in total. Is there really an audience for that many instalments?
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Cameron has an ego. His films have people taking laps of the sets to make sure you truly love the set he made round clippys script.
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Didnāt even need the one we already have. Saw it in cinema but only went because of the 3D novelty value. Just another white saviour movieā¦
What Iād really love to see (and Iām waiting for that for 17 years now) is another Master & Commander.
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Abrams is very good at fan service, well until Rise of Skywalker when it was terrible. Heās great at setting up mysteries, but awful when he has to actually provide answers. Ex: Lost had terrific mysteries set up, but ultimately gave very poor and underwhelming and potentially lore-breaking answers to them. Then he had to course-correct Star Wars when Rian Johnson decided to not give the easy answers to questions from TFA that Abrams so embarrassingly telegraphs. Rey was obviously going to be a true Skywalker originally and the Palpatine ātwistā was only created when Johnson killed off Snoke.
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Couldnāt agree more. I felt like most of the praise it got was from those that felt like they had to praise it because they loved Titanic.
I wish that Cameron could just drop the pretense of his work and just give us another great film. I would imagine he could probably garner more goodwill among moviegoers if he were to actually get back in the directorās chair and give us a good Terminator film rather than another Avatar, which is essentially just Ferngully meets Dances With Wolves.
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