hello and welcome to this week's movie math where Disney continues to cast a
large shadow over the entertainment industry it's actually getting less and
less funny but on that note there was a ray of hope that others might still be
able to find success in Hollywood albeit on a different much smaller scale but
not for them personally just wait until you hear how much money Quentin
Tarantino is making I couldn't believe it all right so anyway yes I am talking
about Quentin Tarantino proving that at least for the controversial filmmaker
there is life after Weinstein but hey there's actually been life for everybody
after Weinstein but anyway for the first time working with another studio this
time Sony and you know potentially also paramount because he keeps saying he's
maybe gonna make a Star Trek movie well that count is one of the 10 films he's
gonna make we'll see but anyway Tarantino posted the biggest
debut of his career and will he only make 10 films if his career is only
getting better right we'll see if he can he can talk his way out of that one I
think Tarantino pretty much has proven at this point he'll he's gonna do
whatever the heck he wants to and in this box office while at least opening
weekend does help him or breaking it down but this was his most star-studded
movie ever and speaking of stars this debut was raise you close to inglourious
basterds opening and one of picks own overall personal best meeting a third
Pitt collaboration is likely in the cards DiCaprio he has some bigger
openings with other directors so he's not as reliant on Tarantino but this is
still one of DiCaprio's better openings as well and Margot Robbie's best after
Suicide Squad although Robbie has actually made
surprisingly few movies with many of them opening and limited release so you
can't really get a bead on how they'd obviously debuted this is also Sony's
really here this Sony's best non spider-man related opening since Hotel
Transylvania 3 last year and if you want to go back even further and find a
live-action film you'd still have to go to a franchise picture and that would be
2016 failed Ghostbusters reboot which shows
that it doesn't take a lot to be a star at Sony
bobert solo but anyway the point is yes Tarantino is the star himself this
certainly I think you know reminding Hollywood that he is a great director to
be in business with especially if you're on the ropes he's able to deliver the
best box office and arguably outside of franchise or horror fare and it puts him
in league with none other than mr. Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan's
probably like what you see you snooze Christopher Nolan other directors catch
up with you Jordan Peele and M night Shyamalan are certainly named directors
worse than today but they work in horror I'm talking again non franchise non
horror movies although one could argue that a big selling point for Once Upon a
Time in Hollywood was the gruesome Manson murders and that the third act is
certainly horrifying so I guess what I'm trying to make here is it Quentin
Tarantino and Christopher Nolan aren't making high concept movies even a quiet
place is a high concept movie you know in to some degree you can call it a
gimmick movie so Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan are incredibly
valuable in an industry where many who work in it don't even like gimmick
movies certainly don't respect them and don't want to be forced to make them in
fact fascinatingly arguably the only remaining movie stars today have
resisted comic book movies that to me is really interesting although with Pitt's
ex Angelina Jolie joining the Eternals that too might change always trailblazer
Jolie even if sometimes it's a bit cringe now Quentin Tarantino's
management team is earning their own cut of his salary because they're making
sure that he gets paid deadline revealed this weekend that between inglorious
basterds and the hateful eight the latter one of Tarantino's least
successful films he's still personally pocketed a cool 75 million that's like
Robert Downey jr. money and a won't and when it comes to Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood 30% of the gross in other words with the
movie makes upfront before any expenses are subtracted that's net but thirty
percent of the gross is divided up between Tarantino DiCaprio and Pitt
as you can see women are still not competitive in these types of deals
despite how much margot robbie was used to promote this film i'm not a huge fan
of Robbie's recent business choices but I have to say she's an arguably a
marquee name I think was used I think she brought in a lot of people she was
used heavily to promote the film and she needs to get paid while she still can
maybe she's crazy like a fox we'll see how this movie does I think it's not
great she's embroiled in this controversy over how women are treated
in the film and we'll see what happens with birds of prey which Warner Brothers
is you know doesn't know what to do it it seems you know that some people say
in the test screenings they love it some people don't
the executives don't like it and once again Warner Brothers can't make a
decisive decision I think because they're worried about the ramifications
which is understandable but I think again it's because nobody who works
there actually likes these movies all right so anyway because of the financial
structure with that 30% just out the door as soon as it comes in it's being
said once a part time in Hollywood needs to get to 400 million worldwide just to
break even obviously Sony is hoping for I mean you
just opened with 40 million you're like you need ten times that now obviously
Sony is hoping for long legs at the box office which Tarantino movies have
classically had as do adult dramas in general a strong showing during awards
season which Tarantino also was classically had and therefore a healthy
life in the ancillary market for those of you who don't now that means
streaming hotels airplanes etc but we'll see how much of that materializes
because once upon a time in Hollywood received one of Quentin Tarantino's
lowest cinema scores and that verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes ain't
looking so good and many in the media including myself have a serious problem
with how the film treats women which could hurt its awards chances we'll get
a better idea of the movie's trajectory at least money-wise after its second
weekend it's also interesting to note that despite how much she's helped the
careers of several African American actors particularly samuel l.jackson his
diversity numbers are downright embarrassing on this film with a ton of
money clearly left on the table and that might have to do with the number of
black moviegoers having a very understandable problem many of you
tweeted me about the over the weekend in fact of Tarantino's
prolific use of the n-word in the past I'm curious if you're a black film I
mean a black movie goer film lover did you see Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood and if not why not now also once upon a time in Hollywood's
audience also skewed heavily male moreso than usual it's usually these days
happily a fifty-foot usually about a 50/50 split this was a little more male
than usual and again considering the critique of his female characters here
Tarantino could be shrinking his audience even further going forward or
at least for this movie despite strong female characters in the past
Tarantino I think he has a lot good to point to and that was kind of my point
in my review of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I'm wondering if black
moviegoers feel the same way but well on the surface he can point to strong
positives there are very strong negatives subversively which i think are
quite damaging so anyway as for Disney they only make four quadrant behemoths
meaning anyone can and does go Hollywood not only sits in the studio's shadow but
that shadow is getting larger and darker by the weekend this weekend Disney broke
its own global box office record and became the first studio to surpassed
five billion overseas and helping the mouse house to achieve all of this was a
third film this year joining the billion dollar club
Aladdin couldn't happen to a nicer movie with two more destined to join the
billion dollar club in the next week or two that will give Disney five billion
dollar pictures in 2019 which is already the most ever in a single year for a
single studio but frozen - in episode nine are still to go both considered
billion-dollar slam dunks now in the past as in just a few weeks ago I felt
that maybe with such a long delay for frozen - and Star Wars bitterly divided
audience these days they it might not be slam dunks but I have to say if the Lion
King and Toy Story four can make a billion dollars films which I thought
were both not as good as the other Disney billion dollar club movies this
year well I don't just think it's Marvel that's growing a billion dollar audience
but Disney in general and the other Studios don't even come close
allye Sony is in the pack but again that's thanks to a serious desist from
Disney who's even building a spider-man ride as one of the crown jewels of their
California Adventure Marvel Park opening soon can you believe that a whole
spider-man ride I mean it's also I think a serious shot at the one in Universal
in Orlando but that's for a totally different studio and it'll be in a
Disney theme park that to me is amazing I mean that's even a step too far even
for me I'd be like we don't distribute that movie pick another superhero we
have so many of these days anyway we'll see if Dwayne Johnson keep fast and
furious a billion-dollar franchise that's um that's some serious that
that's like that's a very high bar you know Dwayne Johnson and I'll be curious
to see if he can you know there's been a lot of talk about him wrestling the
franchise away from Vin Diesel but so far Vin Diesel has delivered
billion-dollar pictures consistently well we'll see about fast and furious 9
although the cast is shaping up impressively but you know Dwayne Johnson
has to be able to deliver the same if he's gonna try and take control of it
and also if Dwayne Johnson can score again with Jumanji - Plus just how big
horror is for Warner Brothers this fall although Annabelle Annabelle comes home
is not boding well for that division one of their few and a few missteps in a
while but if those movies don't do as well it will all just be a Disney summer
but a Disney year if not a Disney industry only Netflix seems to be to be
serious competition - Disney and of course as we've always we all know
Disney is working to blow them out of the water as well as for the overall top
10 this weekend another win for non franchise filmmaking as the farewell
again on a much smaller scale but still it popped into the top 10 finally boding
well for its own awards chances aquafina of course making the jump to franchise
fare over at Disney very much in camp Disney and I'm a big fan of Aquafina so
I'm very happy for her I actually think some of the older
actors are better awards contenders for that film but I'll be curious to see how
it does and again if that filmmaker can you know what her next witch will spend
this capital on and don't forget - speaking of franchise filmmaking this
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