Friday Estimates by Team Klady
(NOTE: I am checking into the Anna Karenina number above. Pretty sure it’s a punctuation typo and was $90k for Friday.)
April 24, 2024
The Hot Blog
amit on: Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
Christian on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
YancySkancy on: Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Hcat on: Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
movieman on: BYOB Fall Back, Film Forward
movieman on: I Should Be Doing Box Office
Review: Little Women (no spoilers)
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree
Review: Frozen 2 (spoiler-free)
Review: Marriage Story (spoilers only in the broadest sense)
see all »
[twitter-widget username="DavidPoland" hiderss="true" hidereplies="true" hidefrom="true" items="3" showts="60" title=" " targetBlank="true"][twitter-widget username="MCNTweets" hiderss="true" hidereplies="true" hidefrom="true" items="3" showts="60" title=" " targetBlank="true"]
Quote Unquotesee all »
It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
What an underwhelming start for SILVER LININGS=(
Given all the ads I’ve seen for SLP, I’m surprised it didn’t go wide this weekend. There were even spots tailored especially for football audiences during NFL games last week. Seemed sure they were pushing for this to play beyond select cities, and news they’re scaling back release plans is disheartening.
Yeah, I thought SLP was opening wide on Wednesday. Wonder why not.
Will any of the above disavow You Know Who (coughWellscough) of his notion that Silver Linings is a guaranteed 100-million-plus audience word of mouth mega-movie Oscar front-runner? Then again, Weinstein has all but buried “Killing Them Softly” in favor of SLP, so what do I know…
I wonder if Harvey will pull the plug on the November 30th wide release slated for “Killing.” (That date always sounded fishy anyway.)
Anything seems possible at The (2nd) House Bob and Harvey Built these days, so who knows?
Hopefully “Django” rocks it next month, because otherwise the Weinsteins will have pissed away one of the year’s strongest linueup of films.
I don’t quite get the Oscar front-runner thing — it’s just a romcom, albeit a good one — but I don’t think $100 million is out of the question. It’s quite the crowd-pleaser.
I want to see KTS way more than SLP. I have no interest whatsoever in the latter. It’s funny how with all these bloggers foaming at the mouth for Oscar movies, and reviews, KTS is like 97% on RT, has their darling from Jesse James, and a great cast, but not a peep.
theyve been running a lot of spots for SLP. Theyve been running them like crazy on FX and ESPN. Ive even seen extended 60 second spots for it. Lots of spots for Life of Pi as well. Basic cable is throbbing with these two ads right now.
I thought SILVER LININGS would be terrible but it’s one of the best movies of the year. Huge crowd pleaser. If only the trailers had been good.
The audience for SLP will have a lot of material to watch over the next eight weeks. This leaves SLP with two stars, who are big for films so far away from the material in SLP, it makes you wonder why Cooper and Lawrence are the leads in this film, when it would probably have been better off with two different leads.
So glad to see Jab Tak Hai Jaan is doing so well.
Agreed. Nice to see the great Yash Chopra’s legendary career end on such a big North American box office note.
Are you saying SLP would have been better off if it starred Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant? (or a similar romcom mix)
…are you saying that Cooper should only play smug, preening assholes (e.g., “The Hangover” movies), and that Lawrence should restrict her big screen outings to badass action heroine types (a la Katniss)?
I’m not sure whether I get the logic.
Btw, both are fantastic in “SLP” (as is the movie).
And that’s coming from someone who has assiduously resisted Cooper’s charms until now.
Vulnerability definitely becomes him.
No, that’s not what I am stating at all. I’m stating that with different actors better suited for a film like this, like Greta Gerwig or Ryan Gosling, it would probably get a bigger audience. You basically have a film, no matter how great it is, featuring an actor known for comedies and an actress known for an action franchises. It’s expecting a lot from people to go see a movie with these two stars playing so out of their wheelhouse, and this is excluding the story of the film. SLP has always had an uphill climb, no matter what well-tanned people have thought.
JS, you did not just say that Greta Gerwig would draw a bigger audience than Jennifer Lawrence. Greta’s still not easily recognizable or has any real name recognition. Whereas JL has two tentpole franchises on the bubble and an Osca nom to boot. Sorry, JL wins hands down. Plus female actors pivot way more easily to romantic roles than male action stars do. Fairly or unfairly, we always see females in a romantic setting.
As for Ryan Gosling, while his fans are livid with the Sexiest Man Alive status not being deferred to him, I think he would have been a great choice, but having not seen SLP yet, and just reading critical reaction to the film, it appears that Cooper holds his own remarkably well and is on his way to earning the stardom status that many think was prematurely assigned to him after The Hangover.
Bulldog, it is in a way about money but it’s not about one star having greater earning potential than the other. It’s more about what if this film had a different cast and that cast possibly, earning the film more money.
Bradley and Jennifer may be great in SLP but does it not seem odd, that those two are the leads in an indie drama? Everything about the film from the ads, sells those two in such a way, that it comes across as those two being the square pegs trying to fit in a round hole. Different actors may have led to a different financial result, but things could change financially for SLP over the next couple of months. Proving this theory very wrong.
Oh yeah, Jennifer doesn’t have two tent pole franchises. She’s in two franchises. There is a difference.