What are you watching?

[TheBenior]

WW will be quite a bit more profitable than Suicide Squad on the strength of costing an estimated $25 million less to produce/market and having already made $66 million more domestically.

Since film production companies keep a good bit more of the domestic gross than international (we're talking anywhere from 55-90% depending on the film, studio, theater chain, week of release, etc vs 15%), domestic gross is much more important dollar for dollar.

Merchandising and licensing-wise, I can also picture Wonder Woman coming out ahead. Sure, Hot Topic was loaded with Suicide Squad tchotchkes, but WW is a more established character with more mainstream appeal.

[novicius]

Yup, I haven't looked into it but since Hot Topic and friends carry all sorts of WW gear, that's probably a given. #girlpower

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Juuuust to put this run into perspective, apparently media corporations like money

Week 7 of BvS: $1,474,110

Week 7 of Suicide Squad: $5,951,011

Week 7 of Wonder Woman: $10,602,201


It should come as absolutely no surprise that WW has utterly crushed anything Mad Max: Fury Road accomplished financially -- time will tell if the accolades will follow.

[dodint]

You hang out at Hot Topic?

[novicius]

You've seen my wardrobe, Hot Topic would be a step-up.

[Freude am Fahren]

Dunkirk was great.

[sandydandy]

I finished watching season 6 of Homeland and not sure how I feel about it. The paradigm has shifted, and it's a little sickening actually.

Last night I tried to watch Mockingjay - Part 2, as it'd been on my list for a long ass time. Fell asleep 20 minutes into it.

[JoshInKC]

Heh I was just combing back over this thread and saw that I missed this comment -- yeah, the lack of an '80s version of Neuromancer is a crime against humanity.

Double-funny since it's basically just a heist movie. Between Thief and Heat, Michael Mann elevated the genre into an art form, FFS!

Back in the late 90's Mann was attached to direct a Neuromancer adaptation with, at various times Leo, Keanu, and for a minute, Will Smith attached to star. I looked forward to it for a long time, and then it descended into development hell never to return. More recently, Vincenzo Natali(?) had a script and got deep into preproduction with Gibson's approval, but it fell apart just before filming.

[speedpimp]

Ozark on Netflix. Jason Bateman launders money for a cartel.

[dodint]

Watched the trailer for Ozark, looks good. Added it to my list. I should get around to watching it in 2019 or so.

As it is I think this is most of the stuff we're watching:

Behind on:
Turn (22 eps)
Mr. Robot (11 eps)
Sleepy Hollow (20+ eps)
Boston Legal (1 season)
Dexter (3 seasons)
The Blacklist (20+ eps)
Deadwood (2+ seasons)
House of Cards (2+ seasons)
Fargo (1 season)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (7 seasons)
Archer (1 season)

Current:
Ballers
Halt and Catch Fire
The Ranch
Master of None
Silicon Valley
Crashing

In the queue:
American Gods
Ozark
Stranger Things

[Phil_SS]

TURN gets a big from me.