General movie news thread

Maybe it's really THAT bad?

 

The only report I saw with a number said it tested in the 60s in audience satisfaction - the same range as "It" and "Shazam." Probably some flops, too, but not outright "kill it with fire" numbers either.

 

I thought IT 1 was a lot more popular than that. Didn't it do like a fuckton at the box office? Or did you mean IT 2?

 

The modern "It," the one that made a bunch of money. "Shazam" also earned $366M worldwide.

 

• I do get how business (and particularly new managers) operate. The smart managers take a while to observe and get their feet wet, earn trust and then make decisions and add their imprint gradually. The insecure ones come in and feel they need to assert themselves and change things up so people know who the new boss is, regardless of whether the changes make any sense. Given its history - I'm surprised Warners has been part of so many financial transactions in the last 40 years. Companies take it on, but either have a hard time digesting it, or knowing what to do with it. Even after protracted efforts to get these deals approved.

 

Ted Turner really wanted the archives for TCM, but was pretty much hands off on the rest of the division, from what I recall.

Since then, it's been a series of really dumb corporate mergers and acquisitions that in 20/20 hindsight, were mangled from the get-go. People who don't understand the television and movie business tried to make Time Warner/Turner fit in their perceptions of what they thought would be profitable. And twice -- thanks, AOL and AT&T -- it backfired spectacularly.

I can count the number of people with whom I worked at Turner, who survived all the layoffs since 2001, on one hand.

AOL was good at dial-up Internet, until they weren't. AT&T was good at phone service, until they weren't. Neither knew the first thing about content creation. It's like wanting to own a restaurant but not realizing you don't know how to cook.

General Electric owning NBCUniversal was pretty much the same bad idea.

 

I still don't understand the AT&T deal - I was thinking they sought the TimeWarner deal for at least a couple of key assets they would retain, but it doesn't look like it. And it also looks like another case of business types understanding "business" but not having a clue about the product(s) their business relies on for revenue. It's all about pumping the stock price and collecting bonuses - period.

 

Jonah Hill Will Not Promote His New Movies Because of Mental Health: Press Tours ‘Exacerbate Anxiety Attacks’

 

Cineworld Group: The world's second biggest movie theater chain is in trouble - CNN

 

Constantine 2 is coming. Peter Stomare said so.

 

I'll just put this out there, too ... when people can pirate a movie online in their living room days within its release, that's going to cause theaters to take a hit, too. I know any number of people who do that without blinking.