Monday, March 19, 2018

Blind Item #2

As I told you months and months ago, this foreign born A list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner/nominee was going to bomb with a big box office movie. Sure enough, it happened and now the studio doesn't want to make a sequel, at least with her. 

39 comments:

  1. Vikander. Tomb Raider

    ReplyDelete
  2. Old Hollywood saying:

    (Paraphrasing):

    You are only as good as your last film's Box Office receipts!

    (This applies to any film ever released.)

    =)

    ReplyDelete
  3. @Temi - I think you got it. I totally forgot about this movie.

    ReplyDelete
  4. It's Tomb Raider.

    Enty has had blinds about her for months.

    ReplyDelete
  5. It may have bombed but Annihilation is pretty damn solid. Good film.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Vikander has an Oscar and was born in Sweden. It is Tomb Raider.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You’re probably right... but Portman is Israeli.

      Delete
    2. She might've been born there but the only person who thinks of her as Isreali is Portman herself. She grew up in Long Island yet "feels more Isreali than American" lol than go serve in the military over there yeah I didn't think so.

      Delete
    3. They re all Israeli until it’s time to serve in the military.

      Delete
    4. She did serve in the military for two years.

      Delete
  7. It flopped domestically but did pretty well internationally

    ReplyDelete
  8. Tomb Raider didn't bomb and Vikander was the only thing about it that got good notices in all the reviews.

    ReplyDelete
  9. +1 Pgh and Matt
    There have been various blinds about Vikander and Tomb Raider and it just opened. Why wait to have a blind about Annihilation? Also Tomb Raider is more like a female James Bond franchise, it's lot easier to swap out the lead than something like Annihilation.

    ReplyDelete
  10. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  11. vikander, tomb raider?
    the movie is not good

    ReplyDelete
  12. Ya, Vikander was pretty much the only decent thing about the movie. I think most reviews suggest the script and pacing was bad but she was a good Lara Croft.
    And it is certainly not Annihilation. It was always due to be a stand alone. The film and book are pretty different and the director said several times he doesnt thing there would be a sequel and that he doesnt want to be part of a franchise

    ReplyDelete
  13. Enty is WRONG Tomb Raider just made $100 million overseas. Yes the movie has a $90 million dollar budget but it is making money.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Enty is WRONG Tomb Raider just made $100 million overseas. Yes the movie has a $90 million dollar budget but it is making money.

    ReplyDelete
  15. tomb raider

    vikander
    It's a terrible lara croft

    ReplyDelete
  16. Number 1 film globally. May or may not be enough to get it a sequel. It'll turn a profit, though.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Let's be honest, it's easier to sell some things in China than in the US.

    ReplyDelete
  18. @Brayson

    Especially when the scripts are dumbed down for wider distribution.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Vikander, they can never make a decent movie from a game can they? BTW saw Annihilation this weekend and was blown away, smart sci-fi with wonderful visuals.

    ReplyDelete
  20. I honestly did think of Enty when I saw how badly it did.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Rebooting is retarded, straight up. I enjoyed Annihilation.

    ReplyDelete
  22. The paps made sure to get pics this weekend of Jolie taking her kids to see the reboot of Tomb Raider.

    ReplyDelete
  23. It did well overseas though over $100 million - No. 1 in China over the weekend. And bottomline most action films these days do better overseas. So the death knell is perhaps premature?

    Total box office $128.4 million on a $94 million budget ----hmm nah they would need 2.5 x 94 million to break even, the producers get the biggest cut on the first week in theatres. And doesn't look like Black Panther is going anywhere, in No. 1 spot this weekend.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Producers don't take the biggest cut in the first weeks. It's the theatres and then the distributor.

      Delete
  24. Jolie's Tomb Raider brought in $275 million in 2001, cost $115 million

    ReplyDelete
  25. As usual, men get 100x to bomb, while women get one shot and set up to fail so the men in suits can say, see women can't carry franchises.

    ReplyDelete
  26. It was fake deep and terrible. I did like the scene where she watched the Alien replicate.

    Overall it could have been great but the execution sucked and it was mostly boring nothing that kept me engaged because the meaning of the movie was spoon fed to the audience.

    Maybe the book was good but I don't wanna read it now.

    ReplyDelete
  27. Whoever said they need 2.5 x budget to break even knows nothing about Hollywood. No big budget movies loses money period. All.budgets in this industry are highly exaherated. It's like the other clueless troll that thinks no laundering is done in Hollywood. How clueless can you be?

    Movies are primarily made to launder money and justify illegal investment. You can't be that naive. PR firms spend months trying to come up with lame excuses in the media to justify ridiculous budgets.

    That crisis you had in the Oscars with Life of Pi where the sfx company won the Oscars but bankrupt is just a clear manifestation of this fantasy economics.

    Don't be fools. Do you actually believe that any investor would risk millions without having a guarantee of return? Hahaha

    John August had a podcast a long time ago breaking it for clueless fools like you how movies make money, googled it, it's a good start.

    Then again you're usually the fools ignoring the sexuality of your celebrities even when they're caught with their real partners. Smh

    ReplyDelete
  28. 'women get one shot and set up to fail' lol here we go again with the idea that everything is sexist. Did you think that, maybe, this is just a shitty movie?

    ReplyDelete
  29. Raspy, you don't grow up "in Long Island." You grow up "on Long Island." Also, it is Israeli, not Isreali.

    ReplyDelete
  30. Tomb Raider.
    To be honest, Vikander ain't much of an actress.
    She was really miscast in that Jason Bourne movie.

    ReplyDelete
  31. Portman and the Area X books. (Annihilation being the first one.) If I hadn't read the books, I would have had no clue about what was happening in the movie. Also, they added a bunch of shit that wasn't in the books, i.e. the biologist cheating on her husband with a person of color, you know because it's 2018 and every movie and tv show (and commercial and print ad) must have interracial and gay relationships added, source material be damned.

    ReplyDelete
  32. Camilla Luddington is the perfect LC for me. For the movie, Alicia did a decent job. But due to the poor writing, we didn't get to see her full potential. Tbh, I'd love to see a CGI movie of TR(like Final Fantasy Spirits Within) casting Camilla herself. No matter what, Camilla is the one & only LC.

    ReplyDelete
  33. She's not being asked back because of her temperament.

    ReplyDelete

Advertisements

Popular Posts from the last 30 days