Poor Things (2023)

[Winston T. Boogie]

Title: Poor Things

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Science Fiction

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Abbott, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley, Jerrod Carmichael, Wayne Brett, Kathryn Hunter, Suzy Bemba, Laurent Borel, Roderick Hill, Jack Barton, Charlie Hiscock, Gergo Borbas, Jeremy Wheeler, Damien Bonnard, Mellanie Hubert, Alexandra Tóth

Plot: Victoria McCandless is a free-spirited, highly sensual woman who drowns herself to escape her abusive husband. In the aftermath, she is brought back to life by an eccentric scientist named Godwin Baxter. He replaces her brain with the brain of her unborn child and changes Victoria's name to Belle Baxter. Godwin finds his scientific dreams fulfilled through Belle, but must deal with the complications of her jealous husband learning about her existence.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Excellent cast and I am sure Yorgos is going to bring the weird.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

 

[Alex...]

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

That's an interesting image.

 

[Alex...]

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Looks like Yorgos has been watching a lot of Terry Gilliam. I'm sure he will have his own spin. One of my most anticipated films of the year.

 

[Alex...]

 

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[Alex...]

Pushed back to Dec. 8th

Emma Stone-Led 'Poor Things' Pushed to December

The new Yorgos Lanthimos film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, will now release in December instead of September.

www.thewrap.com

 

[Jake Lipson]

That's odd. Searchlight is releasing this, and they also have Magazine Dreams scheduled for December 8. I can't recall another time when a single distributor opened two films on the same day competing with itself. It happens all the time with films from competing studios (see most recently Barbie and Oppenheimer), but not so much from the same company.

Of course, Magazine Dreams was dated there before Jonathan Majors' legal issues started, so perhaps Searchlight/Disney are adjusting plans for it as well. They want the cast of Poor Things to be able to do press (but haven't moved to restart SAG-AFTRA negotiations yet.) But in the case of Magazine Dreams, the strike might be an excuse to put that out and not have Jonathan Majors do press.

 

[TravisR]

That's odd. Searchlight is releasing this, and they also have Magazine Dreams scheduled for December 8. I can't recall another time when a single distributor opened two films on the same day competing with itself. It happens all the time with films from competing studios (see most recently Barbie and Oppenheimer), but not so much from the same company.

Of course, Magazine Dreams was dated there before Jonathan Majors' legal issues started, so perhaps Searchlight/Disney are adjusting plans for it as well. They want the cast of Poor Things to be able to do press (but haven't moved to restart SAG-AFTRA negotiations yet.) But in the case of Magazine Dreams, the strike might be an excuse to put that out and not have Jonathan Majors do press.

Yeah, I think you've got it- they haven't announced it but Searchlight is going to basically dump Magazine Dreams. Due to the accusations against Jonathan Majors, the best case scenario for the movie is to be put quietly on Hulu. Any chance it had at awards or a wide-ish release is gone.

 

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100% on RT via Venice Film Fest Premiere.

 

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[Citizen87645]

ReelViews has high praise: https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/poor-things

 

[Tino]

Seeing this tomorrow morning. LOVED The Favourite.

 

[Tino]

Amazing. My favorite film of the year. More later. I’m reeling.