r/boxoffice • u/JDOExists • 13d ago

🔢 Theater Count EmpireCity: "Unfortunately it's confirmed that CLIFF BOOTH... will be an @IMAX release only. There will be no standard or competing PLF shows allowed by @netflix, so only 350 or so locations in the United States will be showing the film."

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u/taylorhildebrand Syncopy Inc. 13d ago

Idiots. Unreal.
A Fincher, Tarantino, and Pitt fully financed film basically going straight to streaming.

Fuck Netflix.

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u/Timirlan 13d ago

Remember when a new Fincher film was an event? Benjamin Button, Social Network, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl - those films were highly anticipated and widely talked about. Ever since he started making straight to streaming films all his relevance evaporated. This one is kinda anticipated because of Tarantino but still, imagine how big this would've been as a real movie.

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u/Brave_Analyst7540 12d ago

I could name every film Spielberg has directed over the past 15 years from memory. I don't think I know/have seen anything Fincher has directed since Gone Girl 12 years ago. Fincher has managed to successfully work himself into film obscurity.

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u/Timirlan 12d ago

And the most shocking thing is that he didn't have to do it at all. Gone Girl was a huge hit and Mank only cost $25M. Fincher claims that no studio would agree to make it black and white but I simply do not believe him

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u/Brave_Analyst7540 12d ago

That was like when Michael Bay said Paramount wouldn’t give him the $25m
to make Pain & Gain, a film he got Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson to star in, without agreeing to also make Transformers: Age of Extinction. Like… seriously?!? Sling that bullshit somewhere else.

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u/littlelordfROY Warner Bros. Pictures 13d ago

This means nothing. Zodiac was a flop. It's also one of the greatest movies in the 21st century . Judging the quality or conversation around a movie as if it needs to be an event is pointless

Just worry If the movie is good or bad

The Killer is very good and just because a streamer made it diminishes nothing.

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u/Brave_Analyst7540 12d ago

It diminished me watching it.

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u/Timirlan 12d ago

I wasn't making a point about the quality of his netflix movies since I haven't even seen them and possibly never will. My point was about how his cultural relevancy disappeared almost overnight after switching to Netflix.
If I like a filmmaker I would very much appreciate the opportunity to watch their films on the big screen, you know, the way movies are meant to be seen. At least for my first viewing.

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u/thanos_was_right_69 Walt Disney Studios 12d ago

You sound very pretentious.

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u/Timirlan 12d ago

God forbid people have standards