Dead Reckoning made $566 million worldwide. That would easily have been enough to make money if the production budget hadn't been $290 million. I would say Cruise is still a star, but I also think all the studios really need to look at how much money they're spending to make these movies...
Challengers is a great example of this. Dune was definitely helped by its starry cast, including Zendaya, but it was also a famous preexisting novel. On the other hand, Challengers was a completely original idea with no previous public awareness and it was marketed as a Zendaya vehicle. It...
Yes. That's why Anyone But You was a hit. It ended up at $219 million worldwide, which is great for a movie budgeted at $25 million. They did that. It went to it because they were in it and their chemistry made that movie work. It certainly wasn't the unremarkable script. And I assume that...
That's only because the gamble didn't work. If Horizon had been the smash hit blockbuster of the summer, people would be saying what a genius Costner is and how smart he was to believe so much in his own material.
Francis Ford Coppola did the same thing with Megalopolis. We'll see how that...
It is worth noting that Gruv will ship out their early. I've done four preorders with them them since March, and all of them arrived well ahead of the official street date.
Gruv put up both Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 for pre-order now as well, separately. However, there does not seem to be an option for a two-pack. Given the extremely close proximity of the two release dates, it would have made sense to offer both in a single combined purchase for perhaps slightly...