Fantastic!

Thank you, Blaze.

To everyone else here, it’s been an honor to be a part of this community.

Live-action remake.

ohhh it sold lots so it must mean it’s good

That has never been true at all. Good movies can flop at the box office, and mediocre or outright bad movies can make $1 billion. Your last paragraph is 100% correct. Box office is a measure of popularity, not quality.

How is what a movie makes matter to the audience?

It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.

When you buy a movie ticket, you are casting your vote for that movie. You’re sending a message to the studio that says, “Yes, we want more films like this.”

The message to take away here is, if people want to see more original, quality-driven movies (and not endless IP-driven sequels and remakes), then they need to go support them at the cinema.

ISO 8601 rules!

First we mine, then we craft.

When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.

Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you’d need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there’s invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.

So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.

But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.

screw their crypto bro dictatorship

I wasn’t aware of any crypto bro dictatorship in Argentina, did you possibly have it confused with El Salvador?

We always appreciate The Onion here. It can stay.

This thread is about the 2025 live-action remake that released today. Did you mean to talk about that one, or the original 2002 animated version?

THE ROCK HAS COME BACK

WB sold the rights to Ketchup Entertainment already. They couldn’t write it off even if they wanted to.

Which version?

There are categories for IMAX films shot entirely/partially digitally, and categories for IMAX films shot entirely/partially on IMAX 65mm film stock.

The Odyssey will be shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film stock.

It’s really confusing…

Those were all shot only partially on IMAX cameras.

Avengers: Infinity War was the first film to be shot entirely in IMAX, but that was only digital.

The Odyssey will be the first film to be shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film stock.

“Wicked” will be re-released in theaters on June 4, and it will include the trailer for “Wicked: For Good”.

Ding ding ding!

“I’m all fired up!”

Some smaller, local theaters allow you to do that, you can rent out the the entire theater and have them play a Blu-ray of the film on their projector.

The only problem is that it’s absurdly expensive, since you’d be paying for every seat in the theater.

My problem is there are so few good movies coming out.

Lots of good movies come out all the time, they’re just not as aggressively marketed as superhero movies, mainly because they’re not as profitable as big-budget movies.

but I think the key is having good movies people actually want to see.

That’s not necessarily true. Just because a movie is good doesn’t mean it will make money for the studios/theaters.

From last year, we had “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”, “Transformers One”, and “The Fall Guy” - all good movies that bombed at the box office.

That said I’m interested in seeing Sinners, but I’ll probably wait to stream it, lol.

…and this attitude is why we will never get good original movies.