General movie news thread

They may want to market the movie better. I hadn't heard about it until this thread today.

 

I dont understand what movie studios are doing with most films nowadays. I dont see ads for hardly anything, but I could simply not be paying attention lol.

 

My guess would be that Hamm or someone else probably had it in a contract that it needed to be released on X screens, but yeah, they did a crap job of publicizing it, and they also released it VOD at the same time for $20. Per Box Office Mojo, its only grossed $384,000, so hopefully it did well on rentals... It's like the inverse of the "Prey" situation, where it's hard to believe that anyone watched that movie and thought, "Well clearly this is a streaming-only release, shouldn't put this in theaters!" (Also, August and September have been pretty barren for decent wide releases; "Barbarian" obviously has its market, but its a niche film and its crazy that it was #1.)

 

Who has the fling with A-Rod in this scenario, Olivia or Harry?

 

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What bugs me is that actors and directors give up pay for a film to get made, and then get screwed by the distribution - I'm guessing studios have found it easier to hose profit participants with streaming than they do movie ticket numbers.

 

Harry looks like the centaur type, so I'd bet on him.

 

Cast of the new Walter Hill western (also stars Willem Dafoe) "Dead for a Dollar."

 

Walter Hill is still alive and making movies?

 

Having a woman in a long dress ride astride wouldn't be historically accurate.

Cowgirls and Characters
It seems crazy to think that women rode sidesaddle with both legs hanging over the same side of a horse. Few women rode astride until the early 1900s. Of course there were outliers like Calamity Jane who often posed for photographs dressed like a man. Stagecoach Mary Fields (the first African American woman to work as a contractor for the U.S. Postal Service driving a stagecoach) wore pants. The Spanish speaking woman from Texas at the top of the article is wearing pants. But, for the most part, women wore long dresses.

 

Years ago on vacation at a ranch, I met the guy who taught Ricky Nelson how to ride a horse for "Rio Bravo". I asked him how that was. He said Ricky and Dean Martin were great, but that they had to stop Yakima Canutt from kicking John Wayne's ass.

 

Tom Hanks: I’ve Only Made ‘Four Pretty Good’ Movies in Decades-Long Career

Made me wonder what the Hanks "Rushmore" is - Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan, and Castaway?, Gump? Apollo 13?