With the actors strike over, the movie’s stars (including Brie Larson) will be able to do the promotions, which should help its box office performance.
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I reckon people are just over all the superhero flicks, especially Disney-Marvel (MCU), Hollywood needs a bit of a re-set including after the strikes and multiple studios re-structuring, look back to say the 90s, bring back some brilliant drama, thriller and romance scripts, let action and superhero stars flex their acting chops and maybe find a new genre. Bar a couple of standouts, Hollywood has really been lacking in artistic and award-yielding titles, I mean really and has found itsself in a gloomy place, not helped by COVID and cinemas on their knees just a couple of years ago (saved by the likes of Top Gun 2 and Barbie).
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I tink you could be right. They’ve just about exhausted every possible story now and are repeating themselves.
Just about every superhero has their secret identity revealed or their house and/or workplace completely blown up. What’s left after that? And then there’s the multi-verses and multiple versions of themselves which does your head in.
Move on.
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Palace Cinemas will open its newest complex at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne’s north west, on December 21.
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The tiny town of Walhalla in Victoria’s Gippsland region will be transformed into a Nepalese marketplace for the filming of Liam Neeson movie Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky.
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Ice Road was the only Liam Neeson post-COVID ‘vehicle’ I’ve actually enjoyed, his other ones, sadly, haven’t been much good, a shadow of his former Taken-era ‘gold’ 15 years back and the immediate years that followed.
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So many TV series are going wider than 16:9 these days but why are some movies now being filmed 4:3?
Just started watching brand new movie Saltburn on Amazon Prime and it’s in 4:3. This is the second movie I’ve watched in recent weeks like this
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Stylistic choice, by the director. I think it was to maintain a ‘voyeuristic’ aspect to the film rather than the wider shot.
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Oh, I see. Considering the amazing locations though, I just feel like we were ripped off by not experiencing these scenes in that full glory.
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According to cinema reporting platform Numero, the Australian gross box office in 2023 was $986 million, up 4.4% on 2022.
Box Office Mojo says Barbie was the top grossing movie in 2023, taking in $58.57 million. The list of the top 200 grossing movies can be found here
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Just remember those figures are in USD, barbie made over $85 million at the Australian Box Office.
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Global box office is estimated to have reached $33.9B for 2023, a 30.5% gain on 2022, according to Gower Street Analytics. While this represents continuing worldwide recovery, the figure remains 15% behind the average of the last three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). Gower Street also recently estimated that, due in part to this year’s strike-impacted release calendar, 2024 is projected to drop to $31.5 billion, which, given today’s revised estimate for last year, would come in at 7% below 2023.
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Not just aliens!
How aliens see Earth pic.twitter.com/wuxc52XYir
— Epic Maps 🗺️ (@Locati0ns) January 4, 2024
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Watching “Father Stu” (been wanting to see it the past year and not on a streaming service currently only buy/rent), based on real events, an off the rails boxer does a 360 and becomes a priest. Enjoying it so far, a bit campy in direction and well produced, like these tales.
Got a nice surprise seeing some yesteryear veterans (adopted aussie Mel Gibson, aussie Jacki Weaver, Colleen Camp from Clue and Police Academy fame and the great British actor Malcolm McDowell who goes all the way back to A Clockwork Orange) 
I liked a scene where Mark Wahlberg’s character, a boxer, wants to move to Hollywood and become an actor… Which is famously what happened in real life with Wahlberg (except he was a rapper and then model, good ol ‘Marky Mark’ 
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