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Post by outrider127 on Mar 29, 2018 14:32:58 GMT
Budget 175m needs to make 400m Worldwide to break even It might do well overseas in China, Korea, Japan
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Post by politicidal on Mar 29, 2018 16:13:44 GMT
Can't seem to find the budget on this. Well, at least the critics like it, 80% Approval on RT That could enable it to break even.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 29, 2018 21:38:48 GMT
Old Spielberg films relied on groundbreaking FX and action scenes. At the time, no one else was doing it. Without ILM and Williams, Spielberg would have been greatly compromised.
Remember Amazing Stories? Supposed to be Spielberg's venture into the same territory as Disney and Hitchcock. Despite being given massive money per episode and lots of famous faces behind the scenes (I think Clint Eastwood directed one) he couldnt do it. The one episode usually cited as the most amusing was Mummy, Daddy, directed by the nobody William Dear.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 30, 2018 18:29:45 GMT
Old Spielberg films relied on groundbreaking FX and action scenes. At the time, no one else was doing it. Without ILM and Williams, Spielberg would have been greatly compromised. Remember Amazing Stories? Supposed to be Spielberg's venture into the same territory as Disney and Hitchcock. Despite being given massive money per episode and lots of famous faces behind the scenes (I think Clint Eastwood directed one) he couldnt do it. The one episode usually cited as the most amusing was Mummy, Daddy, directed by the nobody William Dear. I honestly never even heard of the show until just now. Reading the episode summaries on Wikipedia makes it sound surprisingly boring. It was a Spielberg gig?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 30, 2018 18:36:06 GMT
I honestly never even heard of the show until just now. Reading the episode summaries on Wikipedia makes it sound surprisingly boring. It was a Spielberg gig? Yes. Big media hype around it too. He was given 2 years of funding, 1-2 million per half hour episode which was a lot in those days. One of the first to use computer graphics (for the show opening). John Williams music. Movie quality cinematography. But the episodes were pretty dull. They turned a couple of them into segments of a feature film (Kevin Costner had an early role in one). Robert Zemeckis did an hour Halloween episode with Christopher Lloyd "Go To the Head of the Class." Of the ones directed by anyone well known, that was probably the best.
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Post by hardball on Mar 30, 2018 23:12:48 GMT
I remember that show. Wasn't very good.
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Post by Peter B. Parker on Apr 1, 2018 19:11:12 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Apr 1, 2018 21:32:02 GMT
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Post by darkpast on Apr 2, 2018 0:17:01 GMT
well that's 181m worldwide total, so should finish in the 400m range
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Post by darkpast on Apr 2, 2018 23:59:01 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Apr 5, 2018 17:56:16 GMT
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Post by Larcen26 on Apr 5, 2018 18:11:41 GMT
Loved it, loved the book. Kept the soul while making the film a completely different and equally worthy journey.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Apr 6, 2018 15:42:57 GMT
"Amazing Stories" was just awful.
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Post by hardball on Apr 7, 2018 4:32:24 GMT
Has grossed $300M so far.
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Post by darkpast on Apr 7, 2018 5:28:19 GMT
Has grossed $300M so far. well it made 143m in China so far, so... it came in 2nd place ow in UK to Peter Rabbit in its 3rd weekend
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Post by hardball on Apr 7, 2018 14:46:26 GMT
Total worldwide by the end of the week could be $374M. The film could make 450+ to $500M when it''s all said and done.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 7, 2018 23:42:36 GMT
Total worldwide by the end of the week could be $374M. The film could make 450+ to $500M when it''s all said and done. Ready Player Two, here we come. I reckon.
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Post by theravenking on Apr 13, 2018 20:42:42 GMT
Remember Amazing Stories? Supposed to be Spielberg's venture into the same territory as Disney and Hitchcock. Despite being given massive money per episode and lots of famous faces behind the scenes (I think Clint Eastwood directed one) he couldnt do it. The one episode usually cited as the most amusing was Mummy, Daddy, directed by the nobody William Dear. Coincidentally I just watched the first few episodes of this show. A really disappointing series considering the talent involved.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 13, 2018 20:51:53 GMT
Coincidentally I just watched the first few episodes of this show. A really disappointing series considering the talent involved. Yeah most are really dull and forgettable. I didnt realize Martin Scorcese directed the Sam Waterson one. The Robert Zemeckis episode "Go To The Head if the Class" is ok (and "Family Dog"), but none of them approach Hitchcock or Twilight Zone quality.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Apr 15, 2018 1:26:42 GMT
I have only seen 3 episodes that were released theatrically all together as Amazing Stories: The Movie, but saw on vhs. Mummy, Daddy was one of them and it was very entertaining, clever and amusing. It opened with Spielberg's The Mission WWII segment, with the underbelly gunner trapped under the plane which had to land and would crush him, but it would save the others. It was undeniably Spielberg the schmaltzy and manipulative, but still brilliantly directed and pieced together, with fine performances. It ended with a Robert Zemeckis segment, Go To The Head Of The Class, which I think is spooky, creepy and terrific.
I feel like I need to check out all the other episodes now.
You've already seen the best ones. Family Dog, the animated episode by Tim Burton, is the only left over. The interesting thing with Mummy, Daddy was the original ending just has the guy in the hospital and his wife says, "what took you so long?" The director added the scene with the Spielbergian director and the real mummy. They also had originally wanted John Carradine as the old man in the shack. The Zemeckis one was an hour Halloween special. Probably the most memorable of those with a known cast. "Prepare to meet the misters!" I dont know which was more horrific, the severed head or the guy having to chew the old bubblegum Christopher Lloyd finds under his desk.
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