Quote from: Find Your Magali on March 28, 2024, 10:10:38 AMcommercial bonanza.

Why muse on possible grosses? An idle pastime; but also a hope. What if, say, PTA has a 2001 : A Space Odyssey–type movie waiting in the b.g., a production to ramp up only if the (previously unthinkable) opportunity arises—i.e., a colossal hit awarding him Nolanesque carte blanche?

With Leo in the picture :

2010 Inception $839 million
2012 Django Unchained $426 million
2013 The Great Gatsby $353.6 million
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street $406.9 million
2015 The Revenant $533 million
2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood $377.6 million
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon $157 million

Glinda the Good Witch believes Leo can absolutely still hit $500 mil and higher without breaking a sweat—with the right project;—and it helps that IMAX is in the Situation.

e.g.,

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) $1,495,696,292

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The Upcoming PTA Event Film should be the smartest blockbuster of summer 2025. 

The current Situation may be the most crucial in PTA's career; possibly just-about equivalent in criticality to "getting his first break".

Funny, all-too concerned, and a bit stilted by its own characterization. In the reverberation's of A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once, a wake of output to continue their success. On one side sits CIVIL WAR, their bombastic large-scale effort, with effects work to surpass Everything Everywhere without losing the social-commentary tinge, and then they've got Problemista and Tuesday.

Within their 'smaller' 15m budget fare - Problemista iz a sort of twee, sort of quirky tale of the oxymoronic capitalist pressures around us. It works better than the best picture winner, for me, but it's still not a great flick. It apes Being John Malkovich without ever having as much depth as Kaufman's existential annui and persona fracturing.

A fable in urban outfitters pants, without being so annoying. 

Quote from: Find Your Magali on March 28, 2024, 10:10:38 AM$175M + PG-13 + major VFX indicates to me there must be some sci-fi and/or futuristic elements. Not sure why the cost would be so high otherwise. They are clearly aiming for a commercial bonanza.

The notion of a blockbuster hit from PTA is rather mind-boggling, to be honest.

You can hear plenty of f bombs in the leaked set videos. This isn't pg 13

$175M + PG-13 + major VFX indicates to me there must be some sci-fi and/or futuristic elements. Not sure why the cost would be so high otherwise. They are clearly aiming for a commercial bonanza.

yo. I finally put together my favorite films/recommendations if anyone is interested. I remember the old school xixax crowd used to be perplexed by my lists.

https://boxd.it/pE49s

Such a set-up recalls the prehistoric days when PTA edited his films from VCR to VCR; and recalls the production company of EWS : "Hobby Films".

PTA—shooting his "event film" as if it were a home movie!

Quote from: Achpi on March 25, 2024, 11:11:21 AMso the movie could have a 175m budget...

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/3/24/paul-thomas-andersons-new-film-actually-costs-175-million

Always take his scoops with a grain of salt, but his most recent one about Euphoria ended up being true and he was the first to claim this was going to be $100 million before the trades mentioned it a few days later, so who knows. He's had some bad misses, too. The "secret" David Lynch movie being the biggest lol

so the movie could have a 175m budget...

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/3/24/paul-thomas-andersons-new-film-actually-costs-175-million