Pretty sure the script was already finished a long time ago, Marvel is only just now revealing that they were involved in the script.

Probably because they spent their formative years gooning to porn in their bedroom, and now associate any and all depictions of nudity/sex with porn.

And now that we’re in the post-#MeToo era, a lot of people are (rightfully) concerned about the actors’ consent to filming these scenes, but now I think people are overcorrecting.

Kinda makes you wonder what the whole point of the movie was, then.

That’s like if the John Wick movies cut out all the violence and shooting.

There are a few reasons why we don’t list the amount of tickets sold:

• The movie business never started reporting tickets sold. From the inception, it’s always been raw dollars, so the data for tickets sold literally does not exist for older movies.
• Not all tickets are equal. An evening ticket is more expensive than an afternoon ticket, and IMAX ticket or 3D ticket is more expensive than a standard ticket, a ticket at a big city mall multiplex is more expensive than a ticket at a family-owned drive-in theater in the country, etc. So just listing the raw ticket amounts wouldn’t tell you how much was made.
• The studios don’t really care about tickets sold, they care about profit.

It released in theaters today.

The theatrical cut is also available on the regular 1080p Blu-ray.

Since it’s available on Blu-ray, surely someone must have remuxed and encoded it by now. I mean, the Scene guys had to source the movie from somewhere, right?

He had planned as much as 7 total Avatar films.

But I guess the deaths of his longtime collaborators James Horner and Jon Landau hit him hard, so he’s deciding to scale it back.

Even when Disney loses, they still win.

The reason we don’t adjust box office for inflation::

The measuring system for gauging a film’s success is based on unadjusted grosses, mainly because historically this is the way it has always been done because of the practices of the film industry: the box-office receipts are compiled by theaters and relayed to the distributor, which in turn releases them to the media. Converting to a more representative system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems because the only data available for older films are the sale totals. As the motion picture industry is highly oriented towards marketing currently released films, unadjusted figures are always used in marketing campaigns so that new blockbuster films can much more easily achieve a high sales ranking, and thus be promoted as a “top film of all time”, so there is little incentive to switch to a more robust analysis from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.

Spider-Man isn’t part of the Marvel universe, Marvel is part of the Spider-Man universe. 😁

If I may, I’d like to recommend the animated movie Justice League: War (2014). It’s basically a shorter version of JL17 and ZSJL, all three films are adapted from the same comic. Of the three, this is the best.

And sadly, the theatrical cut is hard to come by (impossible?) in HD format.

The theatrical cut is available on the 4K Blu-ray.

“…I’m bulldozing this scenic park to build a super profitable strip mall!”

Some key takeaways from this interview:

• The SSU films are no longer in development.
• “Cliff Booth” is at Netflix because director David Fincher has an exclusive deal with Netflix.

The “Venom” trilogy was huge, but other spinoffs like “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” were misfires. Why didn’t those work?

Ultimately, the audience wasn’t satisfied enough with them. Whether that’s a fair assessment of those movies, who knows. That’s howling into the wind. The audience is the boss, and they didn’t respond. It’s as simple as that.

Are there plans to keep developing Sony’s universe of Marvel characters?

Right now, we don’t know. We never looked at it as the “Sony-Marvel Universe.” We looked at if there were worthwhile movies to make with other characters. At the moment, there are none in active development.

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Why is Netflix releasing “Cliff Booth,” the sequel to Sony’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”?

Because David Fincher is exclusive to Netflix. We were going to make the movie when Quentin [Tarantino] was directing it, but he decided that he didn’t want to do it and changed course. The only other person that he was comfortable directing his script was David Fincher, and David Fincher was exclusive to Netflix, so we were not going to stand in anybody’s way.

For context: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” was initially not going to be released in IMAX, due to Christopher Nolan’s exclusive contract with IMAX mandating that his film, “The Odyssey” remain in IMAX theaters for a certain amount of time. Looks like the impressive box office performance of Spider-Man changed their minds.

And don’t worry, “The Odyssey” will still be playing in IMAX 70mm locations. Spidey is just taking over digital IMAX.

Remember to also check out the pinned discussion thread over at !marvelstudios@lemmy.world!

Oh sweet, maybe now I can finally get tickets to—