What was true in 2018 remains true in 2024: Big movies and IP-focused flicks for and starring white men can bomb as hard as those centered on women and minorities.
DaCosta was done dirty. Her Candyman film was brilliant and they potentially scuttled her career by airing dirt unnecessarily. Hope she bounces back with Hedda Gabbler. And the Marvels was solid. I actually liked its fleet runtime and had hoped it’d start a trend of lean comic book movies but no such luck.
I'm guessing she'll be fine if only because Universal seemed pretty happy with her Candyman flick (which tripled its budget in the Covid summer of 2021). As for The Marvels, honestly, I think even if she wanted to keep it under two hours, an extra 14 minutes would have helped in terms of it feeling less scrambled and taped together. Alas.
Agreed, although offhand $50 million for Phillips, Phoenix and Gaga, an extra $30 million to shoot in LA instead of overseas (arguably a good thing) and then... another $100 million for who the hell knows?
DaCosta was done dirty. Her Candyman film was brilliant and they potentially scuttled her career by airing dirt unnecessarily. Hope she bounces back with Hedda Gabbler. And the Marvels was solid. I actually liked its fleet runtime and had hoped it’d start a trend of lean comic book movies but no such luck.
I'm guessing she'll be fine if only because Universal seemed pretty happy with her Candyman flick (which tripled its budget in the Covid summer of 2021). As for The Marvels, honestly, I think even if she wanted to keep it under two hours, an extra 14 minutes would have helped in terms of it feeling less scrambled and taped together. Alas.
Having now seen Jok2r I cannot for the life of me work out why it cost so much.
Agreed, although offhand $50 million for Phillips, Phoenix and Gaga, an extra $30 million to shoot in LA instead of overseas (arguably a good thing) and then... another $100 million for who the hell knows?
To be fair, who the hell knows does get more expensive every year.