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Post by Skaathar on Aug 24, 2020 4:00:11 GMT
One indie film? Not exactly a stellar resume to get hired for a multi-million dollar blockbuster. That's normal though these days, with CBM's the IP sells the movie not the directors, and inexperienced talent comes in cheap, also it's the playbook every company is copying since it worked with Wonder Woman, look at every female led CBM announced after WW's success they have all been atleast partially female director led who has limited success, and mostly critical not financial success at that. To be fair, Patty Jenkins had a bit more experience under her belt than Olivia Wilde when she was tapped for WW. I mean, I'm not saying Olivia won't do well... just hope we don't end up with a Charlie's Angels instead of a Wonder Woman.
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Post by dazz on Aug 24, 2020 4:35:32 GMT
That's normal though these days, with CBM's the IP sells the movie not the directors, and inexperienced talent comes in cheap, also it's the playbook every company is copying since it worked with Wonder Woman, look at every female led CBM announced after WW's success they have all been atleast partially female director led who has limited success, and mostly critical not financial success at that. To be fair, Patty Jenkins had a bit more experience under her belt than Olivia Wilde when she was tapped for WW. I mean, I'm not saying Olivia won't do well... just hope we don't end up with a Charlie's Angels instead of a Wonder Woman. But not much, she did one movie, 3 TV pilots and 3 normal TV episodes, hardly an extensive filmography,. and it wasn't to say anything about Jenkins, but how the studios have all copied that formula for their female led cbm's since, thinking that it was the key to success and not Jenkins herself just being perfect for the project.
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Post by poelzig on Aug 24, 2020 4:47:51 GMT
Olivia Wilde is a director now? Can't say I've ever seen any of her work. As an actor, I find her decent. As a director? I'm worried. She directed one indie film, it got good reviews but did bad at the box office I haven't seen it and it could be hilarious. That said it was pushed as being woke as f and was a grrl power buddy comedy with one grrl being a lesbian and the other being "body positive". What critic would dare give that movie a bad review? Hell what critic would even dare give that movie a neutral review? I think it was also another example of a female director saying it wasn't for male audiences and then complaining when men and pretty much everyone else stayed away in droves. At the risk of sounding toxic I would add that Wilde is smoking hot and a solid actress. I'll watch the grrrl power comedy she directed when it hits cable or streaming or somewhere else I don't have to put any effort into watching it.
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Post by dazz on Aug 24, 2020 4:54:52 GMT
It did well, made over 4 times it's budget, it was an independent movie, $25m for a indie flick is actually good, doing good or bad depends on it's budget to box office ratio, not simply how much a movie grosses. it got a wide release. Even though a indie distributor they treated as a bigger film, that is why it is seen as a failure, once you add 15m marketing it made no money
The Box Office Failure Of Olivia Wilde's 'Booksmart' Is A Sadly Predictable Tragedy
Where did you pull the $15m price tag from for marketing as I didn't see it in the article or found it by searching, I would doubt they spent that much given how much other articles state how if it made $25m it would be a financial success, dunno you are right though if it spent $15m on marketing expecting it to be another Lady Bird or was it Lady Bug? whatever, then yeah theatrically it made no money, but likely has made money since atleast, as even at a $15m budget for a total $21m expense that's low enough that they could have made that back off of their first round of streaming licensing.
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Post by darkpast on Aug 24, 2020 6:01:43 GMT
it got a wide release. Even though a indie distributor they treated as a bigger film, that is why it is seen as a failure, once you add 15m marketing it made no money
The Box Office Failure Of Olivia Wilde's 'Booksmart' Is A Sadly Predictable Tragedy
Where did you pull the $15m price tag from for marketing as I didn't see it in the article or found it by searching, I would doubt they spent that much given how much other articles state how if it made $25m it would be a financial success, dunno you are right though if it spent $15m on marketing expecting it to be another Lady Bird or was it Lady Bug? whatever, then yeah theatrically it made no money, but likely has made money since atleast, as even at a $15m budget for a total $21m expense that's low enough that they could have made that back off of their first round of streaming licensing. 15m is a modest number for wide release, even if im off 10m would be the bare minimum www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2017/biz/news/hollywoods-soaring-marketing-cost-dilemma-1202530305/amp/ |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 24, 2020 7:23:36 GMT
Olivia Wilde is a director now? Can't say I've ever seen any of her work. As an actor, I find her decent. As a director? I'm worried. She's woke-that's the important part.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 23, 2021 1:59:29 GMT
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Post by Skaathar on Jun 23, 2021 2:04:26 GMT
You know the weird thing about this whole thing? Olivia Wilde was the original casting choice for Gamora. IIRC, she turned down the offer because she was doing one action role after another and didn't want to get typecast into the badass chick role.
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Post by darkpast on Jun 23, 2021 5:53:41 GMT
You know the weird thing about this whole thing? Olivia Wilde was the original casting choice for Gamora. IIRC, she turned down the offer because she was doing one action role after another and didn't want to get typecast into the badass chick role. I thought it was Amanda Seyfried |
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Post by Skaathar on Jun 23, 2021 15:23:37 GMT
You know the weird thing about this whole thing? Olivia Wilde was the original casting choice for Gamora. IIRC, she turned down the offer because she was doing one action role after another and didn't want to get typecast into the badass chick role. I thought it was Amanda Seyfried Seyfried was another one they offered the role to. She turned it down because she didn't want to spend the time in heavy green makeup. I'm not a hundred percent sure about this, but from what I understand Amanda was offered the role first by James Gunn. Olivia was offered the role by both Gunn and the studio. Personally I would have preferred Wilde, but I do prefer Seyfried over Saldana. |
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