Both Dial of Destiny and Dead Reckoning had similar budgets (around $300M) and similar opening weekends (around $80M). But the reviews and audience reactions have been better for Mission Impossible. This suggests the movie will have longer legs than Indiana Jones. Undoubtedly Paramount is hoping that Dead Reckoning's trajectory will be more like Top Gun Maverick's (staggering) 5.66 multiplier and less like (say) Quantumania's 2.02 multiplier.
edit: The article also mentions that the global opening weekend box office numbers for Mission Impossible are a lot better than the numbers for Indiana Jones, at $235M (ie $80M domestic + $155M overseas) vs $130M (ie ~$85M domestic + only about $45M overseas). That said, it's difficult to compare overseas numbers without a detailed breakdown of which markets each movie opened in. Mission Impossible may have played in more countries its first few days than Indiana Jones did.
Omnipotent AI tries to take over the world via manipulating people into doing its bidding, I thought the story and writing was pretty weak but worth it for the last like 45 mins which blows the rest of the movie out of the water IMO
Because it’s barely a concern in the movie. It’s little more than a Macguffin to raise the stakes. That’s honestly my biggest problem with it. They set up this compelling concept of an AI manipulating information and then the most they ever do with it is have it hijack a walkie talkie. I loved how the intelligence agencies were all switching everything to analogue, but none of that ever really makes any difference to the story at all.
Well the last time plot mattered was when Brian De Palms was directing which was a while ago. I’m not complaining though, still like the franchise (apart from one entry) and enjoyed this one also.
@_Rho_ The article is a puff-piece intended to promote the movie, not anyone's actual hot take. The actors might have stopped participating in promotion due to the strike but the publicists on the studio payroll will keep finding ways of shilling.
This is clever strategy. AMPTP wants the strike to drag on. They’ve said they’re going to continue until people start losing their homes. Now, whether this is bluster* or not, they’re going to be in a really hard place if the only people making entertainment are independents, who are suddenly going to become the power brokers. And they’ll stay that way, too. If some indie studio manages to make a hit when nobody else could make a soda commercial, they’ll be revered even after the strike ends. AMPTP doesn’t want that, so this puts pressure on them to cave quickly.
*It is. It’s so easy to punch greedy fucks in the wallet and watch them fold.
This is gonna be bad. They’re pushing through with only the threat of getting sued as motivation for the remaining writers that are obligated to work through the strike.
It's the actors, not the writers, who have been advised by their union to continue working:
And per guidance from the actors guild stateside, members working under [British] Equity contracts are to “continue to report.” SAG card carriers working on Equity productions may choose to boycott but, due to tough anti-strike laws in the UK, studios would be able to sue them directly to force them back on to set.
The article doesn't make it clear whether the WGA (the writers' union) is advising its members to do the same on this show. Presumably it would depend on whether the writers' contracts are struck under British or American law.
If you really want to know what happened in the last Writer’s Strike, and how it formed the roots of this one (as Oliver Stone is suggesting) there’s a whole season of a podcast about it.
Let’s see where he lands now. Fox News seems to have gone so radical that even people like Geraldo are no longer “welcome” to the Conservative discourse.
Saw it tonight. What a ride. After every set piece I was like “there’s no way they can top that” but then they somehow keep doing it. Cant wait for Part Two!
Trump ran Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants and bragged about walking around the dressing rooms and seeing the contestants completely nude because he was the owner and there was nothing they could do to stop him.
The guy just can't get any worse the more I hear about him. Jesus.
He's the most unlikely hero for any movement, anywhere, ever. But we are where we are. Have you seen those Ben Garrison cartoons where Trump is drawn to have the physique of superman? It's all madness
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