Ooh, that also means that it may get a wider release and actually play in my town.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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sumi - May 29, 2007 5:33:14 am PDT #8776 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Sean K - May 29, 2007 7:15:41 am PDT #8777 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Talk about a "which thread does this go in" moment:
This is as good a place as any I guess, considering there is still no actual network attached for broadcast, and it started as a movie.
Check. It. [link]
(Video link)
Matt the Bruins fan - May 29, 2007 7:18:21 am PDT #8778 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Waitress ended up 5th in the weekend's box office tally.
Wow, it's only playing on one screen at the indie theater in Memphis, so I assumed there were about 100 prints nationwide. That's pretty damn impressive in a weekend when the Spider and Pirate sequels are sucking in all available moviegoers.
§ ita § - May 29, 2007 7:22:05 am PDT #8779 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's a standard second weekend dropoff for a big release? I mean, how low do you have to go for it to be considered a bad thing?
Kathy A - May 29, 2007 7:26:12 am PDT #8780 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that 55-60% is pretty standard anymore, but if you get down into the high 70s/low 80s, then it starts to get press as being a flop (Hulk had, IIRC, an 83% drop its second week).
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:33:29 am PDT #8781 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I mean, as it was I wanted the big finish something awful, and what we were given wasn't the slightest bit interesting to me. Parkour would have been a huge upgrade.
My feeling exactly. It felt as if the whizzbang opening (seriously, I was the slack-jawed demographic they were pitching to) ended up being something of a bait and switch.
What is this dopey, nonsensical sentimentality? Where did my kickass, richly dark, hugely creative movie go?
I loved Waitress not for its provenance or even because my soopersekritcelebrityboyfriend was in it...but because it joins the pack of little teeny, slice-o-life movies that just make me feel good. Dear Frankie, A Slipping Down Life, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself...and on and on...I love them all.
eta: Oh, and The Girl in the Cafe, Sliding Doors, Dirty Filthy Love, Home Movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 29, 2007 7:36:00 am PDT #8782 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Beej, have you ever seen Sarah Polley in My Life without Me? It strikes me as being similar to those movies, and something you might like.
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:38:06 am PDT #8783 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
It's been in my queue forever. I'll move it up!
Just the name reminds me to My First Mister which nearly broke me. Cliche? You betcha...completely predictable? uh HUH. But still I loved it.
Sean K - May 29, 2007 7:40:02 am PDT #8784 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I thought Leelee Sobiyeksi and Albert Brooks were both wornderful in that, Beej, even though it was pretty cliche and predictable.
Albert Brooks in particular seems to be able to do great stuff with pretty average material. See: Defending Your Life.
beekaytee - May 29, 2007 7:43:15 am PDT #8785 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Complete agreement on both counts.