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[Victoria Watcher]

Saw Top Gun Maverick.

It’s very good.

[Victoria Watcher]

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ breaks Memorial Day box office records with $151M, lands Tom Cruise biggest movie launch

https://www.foxnews....om-cruise-movie

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 May 2022 - 12:51 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

‘Irredeemable’ Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages

 

Warner Bros confirms film starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, Michael Keaton, JK Simmons and Brendan Fraser won’t ever be released

 

https://www.theguard...in-final-stages

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 August 2022 - 02:40 PM.

[North Shore]

Took Shore-let #2 to see Minions: Rise of Gru last night at Silver City.  Shorelet and his buddies enjoyed it.  As did I - lots of easter eggs in there, and a pretty decent 70's soundtrack.  it would seem that the makers really worked hard to make the movie appeal to parents as well as kids..

[lanforod]

I think that's the case for that whole franchise. I've enjoyed them all.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Aug 13, 1982: 40 years ago, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was released in theaters.

[Victoria Watcher]

Watched 13 Lives on Amazon. Pretty good.

[dasmo]

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Aug 13, 1982: 40 years ago, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was released in theaters.

I hate these you are old memes.

[Nparker]

Watched 13 Lives on Amazon. Pretty good.

I watched "Day Shift" on Netflix last night. It won't be winning any Oscars, but it was a pleasant enough distraction for 100 minutes or so.

[todd]

“So Help Me Todd” starts next month on CBS (Global locally), filmed in Vancouver

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=3IzKM5EcfyQ

[Nparker]

Whenever I see a promo for this series I think someone came up with the name then created a storyline to go with it.

[todd]

Whenever I see a promo for this series I think someone came up with the name then created a storyline to go with it.

You’ve saved Victoria over 33,000 times.

[North Shore]

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Aug 13, 1982: 40 years ago, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was released in theaters.

 

Phoebe Cates coming out of the pool....

[Victoria Watcher]

You can purchase Top Gun Maverick at home now, but it's not cheap.

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 August 2022 - 10:20 AM.

[Mike K.]

Cool!

The director is half Canadian, btw.

[LJ]

^^Wouldn't you rather see it at an IMAX theatre for less money?

[Victoria Watcher]

The gay romcom Bros. absolutely bombed big time at the box office this weekend.

 

Of course, straight people and “homophobic weirdos” are to blame who didn’t go see the movie.

 

Bros. only brought in $4.8 million for the whole weekend, the #4 movie.

 

 

https://cosmicbook.n...blame-says-star

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 October 2022 - 10:12 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

It cost $22M to make.

And while on Rotten Tomatoes it has a 92% score from both critics and audiences, it’s a bomb.

[todd]

^^Wouldn't you rather see it at an IMAX theatre for less money?

Wouldn’t you rather watch it at home? large TV sets are at an all time low price, most movie theatres are infested with rats and coronavirus and annoying people.

My TV is so big I can’t see the edges from where I sit(or at least the same amount of edge as an IMAX), as good as an IMAX or better

Popcorn is a lot cheaper

Edited by todd, 03 October 2022 - 12:13 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

For the romantic comedy genre, star power is integral these days to getting people out of the house. Paramount’s “The Lost City” made it to the $105 million mark in the U.S. off the strength of pairing A-listers Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum (that it had adventure elements to its plot and a Brad Pitt cameo didn’t hurt), while the George Clooney-Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” is already a hit overseas with $45 million ahead of its U.S. debut later this month. Without star power, a rom-com seems better off taking the streaming route than the theatrical route.

 

 

 

https://variety.com/...ped-1235391341/

 

 

 

It's already hard to get guys to go to the theatre for straight rom-coms.  They are usually dragged by their women.  That market is 80% (straight) woman.  Why would anyone come out for a gay men rom-com movie?  The article linked above painfully misses this obvious point.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 October 2022 - 06:53 PM.