The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

Man, I barely remembered 3D movies before you brought up that particular blue-eyed polar bear.

Edit: Ooh, fun page-topper.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

James Bond has been delayed to next year, and Black Widow was delayed a couple weeks ago. Dune, Soul, and Wonder Woman are allegedly still releasing this year, but I wouldn't count on it.

Neither, apparently, is Regal Cinemas. There are reports that as early as next week, Regal will be closing all their locations in the US and UK.

I'm not entirely surprised. Even in states where cinemas are open, people aren't showing up. The last I looked, new releases were pulling in just a couple hundred dollars per screen per day. That's what? Fifteen tickets per day? You can't sustain a big theater on that.

And because of this Cineworld closes it's theaters in UK and all Regal theaters in the US

Dune remake has been delayed and will now release on October 1, 2021

ranalin wrote:

Dune remake has been delayed and will now release on October 1, 2021

Ah shoot. I was hoping they would release it digitally.

ranalin wrote:

Dune remake has been delayed and will now release on October 1, 2021

I am in some ways very pleased at this. I love the original novel and Villeneuve book and really want to watch this on a big screen, however i do worry there wont be any big screens by the time we get there...

DSGamer wrote:

Interesting. I was wondering how things were going after Tenet launched with the tag line “Big movies are back in theaters”.

Tenet flopped. It made back its production budget (almost entirely on the back of overseas receipts) but for what it would have made and would have been expected to make as a prestige summer blockbuster, it flopped. I believe it's opening weekend take in the United States was $20 million, which is the kind of money you make from a quiet opening in January, and then it dropped like a stone after that.

Tenet was a big test case for "the new normal". Would movie-goers come to the theater for a big, highly anticipated release? Would they trust the precautions taken by theater chains to prevent infection? Could people's anxiety about getting sick be overcome? And the answer is clearly no. The number of people willing to brave a theater right now is incredibly small. Warner Bros. kinda took one for the whole industry. Disney shoved New Mutants out the door, but I doubt they gave two sh*ts about how it performed given its history.

What's interesting to me right now is that I wonder how much the current spat of delays is driven by a desire to preserve box office takes for big pictures like Black Widow and Dune and how much of it is driven by a need to ensure that studios still have something to release next year. So many productions have been put on hold because of the pandemic that I wonder if films are being shifted next year simply to keep next year from being anemic.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

What's interesting to me right now is that I wonder how much the current spat of delays is driven by a desire to preserve box office takes for big pictures like Black Widow and Dune and how much of it is driven by a need to ensure that studios still have something to release next year. So many productions have been put on hold because of the pandemic that I wonder if films are being shifted next year simply to keep next year from being anemic.

Great point!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

What's interesting to me right now is that I wonder how much the current spat of delays is driven by a desire to preserve box office takes for big pictures like Black Widow and Dune and how much of it is driven by a need to ensure that studios still have something to release next year. So many productions have been put on hold because of the pandemic that I wonder if films are being shifted next year simply to keep next year from being anemic.

I mean, it's gotta be both, right? They can't really be making movies right now, and nobody's watching them right now. But making movies takes time. If they release now to get what they can then they'll be without a supply later when the demand comes back. If they can weather the pause and have films to show when people want them then they should be able to resume more-or-less as they did before.

Having seen an interview with Villeneuve, I get the impression they were having trouble getting the editing finished for Dune and also wanted to do some reshoots. I would guess in their case it may no longer be possible to finish it by the December release date.

But I want my Charlize Theron. I would also accept the real life Furiousa, Rose Namajunas.

I like Taylor-Joy. Good actor.

Anna Taylor-Joy... What movie have I seen her in lately? Hmmm...

RawkGWJ wrote:

But I want my Charlize Theron. I would also accept the real life Furiousa, Rose Namajunas.

I love Charlize Theron and will watch her in just about anything, but I'm glad they're casting someone else to play her role in a prequel instead of digitally de-aging her.

Robear wrote:

Anna Taylor-Joy... What movie have I seen her in lately? Hmmm...

New Mutants. I'm sure that's what you're thinking of.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

But I want my Charlize Theron. I would also accept the real life Furiousa, Rose Namajunas.

I love Charlize Theron and will watch her in just about anything, but I'm glad they're casting someone else to play her role in a prequel instead of digitally de-aging her.

This.

Plus Taylor-Joy has been really good in the small number of things I've seen her in.

"VVitch", hello?

fangblackbone wrote:

"VVitch", hello?

Spoiler:

Robear just wants to talk about Emma again. Which Anya Taylor-Joy is phenomenal in, fwiw.

fangblackbone wrote:

"VVitch", hello?

She lived deliciously.

Oh. I just wanted to pile on about how adorable Bill and Ted Face the Music was. My impression of Keanu has gone WAY UP after seeing that. He’s clearly a humble and down to earth person. He had every reason to NOT do this movie, and he gave it his all. This film is incredibly authentic to the series. I believed every second of it and I absolutely loved it!

RawkGWJ wrote:

My impression of Keanu has gone WAY UP after seeing that. He’s clearly a humble and down to earth person. He had every reason to NOT do this movie, and he gave it his all.

Similarly, Keanu Reeves was great in Always Be My Maybe. He plays a parody version of himself, and it's so clear that he's having fun making fun of himself.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

My impression of Keanu has gone WAY UP after seeing that. He’s clearly a humble and down to earth person. He had every reason to NOT do this movie, and he gave it his all.

Similarly, Keanu Reeves was great in Always Be My Maybe. He plays a parody version of himself, and it's so clear that he's having fun making fun of himself.

YES!!

He could have so easily pulled a Kevin Smith and been like, “I’ll never again play that stupid stoner character again! I’m John Wick, goddammit!!”

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Oh. Also.

Spoiler:

Was Ted’s daughter trans?

RawkGWJ wrote:

Oh. I just wanted to pile on about how adorable Bill and Ted Face the Music was. My impression of Keanu has gone WAY UP after seeing that. He’s clearly a humble and down to earth person. He had every reason to NOT do this movie, and he gave it his all. This film is incredibly authentic to the series. I believed every second of it and I absolutely loved it!

Not sure if you’re talking about him as a person or an actor, but if you want to see a few examples of the kind of person he is:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bak...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/graziad...

I respect the fact that at no point during the production of the movie did they consider recasting Alex Winter even though his career hasn't been as impressive as Keanu Reeves'.

Grenn wrote:

I respect the fact that at no point during the production of the movie did they consider recasting Alex Winter even though his career hasn't been as impressive as Keanu Reeves'.

That would have been most egregious, dude.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Oh. Also. Was Ted’s daughter trans?

I believe they are non-binary. I saw them (and adore them) in Netflix's Atypical, where they play the main character's sister.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Was Ted’s daughter trans?

The actor who plays her, Brigette Lundy-Paine, identifies as non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns. The character in the film is referred to by female pronouns and other than that it never comes up AFAIK.

I know this is not the right thread, but does non-binary exist under the trans umbrella?

RawkGWJ wrote:

I know this is not the right thread, but does non-binary exist under the trans umbrella?

They're adjacent concepts. Nonbinary means a gender identity that's not exclusively masculine or feminine. Trans means a gender identity that doesn't match the sex you were assigned at birth. In my experience, a lot of people who identify as nonbinary also identify as trans (including me!) but not all.

re: Keanu

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It's an old copypasta, sir, but it checks out.

This has nothing to do with anything, but I just remembered that I saw Alex Winter in the audience of a GWAR show. He was not trying to disguise himself in the least. It was almost as if he was trying to look like Bill. He was totally chill and nobody really bothered him.

Also unrelated and random. I once saw Gwen Stephanie at the IKEA in Tustin, CA. This was like two weeks after “Just a Girl” hit big. She was also not disguising herself in the least and nobody recognized her. I’d met her a few times in the local scene and knew without a doubt that it was her. She walked past Mrs Rawk and I in the isle. I waved and said hi. She politely said hi back. As we were in the checkout line we saw her walk out of the store and a gaggle of teens ran out after her yelling, “Gwen, wait!”