The film’s plot delivered a bittersweet ending, and so did the Academy Awards. Here are the costs and revenues as our experts see them:
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19 'Don't Breathe' Box Office Profits - 2016 Most Valuable Movie Blockbuster Tournament Let’s check out the film’s score in the only kinds of notes that matter to distributors and financiers. Wasn’t in love with its exuberant opening number on the freeway, but the moment Stone (as struggling actress) and Ryan Gosling (as struggling jazz man) shared the screen, the natural reaction was to hope they continue to make movies together, again and again. The film is still in release, so its profit picture continues to climb, even if it is mostly played out at this point. The film, which won six Oscars including Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Best Director for Damien Chazelle, became a breakout hit that far outpaced its $30 million cost to turn in a strong profit performance for Lionsgate and its financing partner Black Label Media. This isn’t how La La Land will be remembered in this tournament. And hey, for about three minutes at least it won Best Picture, even if the golden trophies were soon snatched away by the rightful winners, the producers of Moonlight. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources.įrom the moment it appeared in fall festivals like Toronto, La La Land became the prohibitive Oscar favorite.
The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. And it doesn't do it for me.When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. I'm not even going to speculate about the ending.
The ending message is very damaging to those suffering from any sort of illness. Pushing this idea that you have to endure hardships alone and come back to your loved ones when you're "not broken anymore" and not cause them "trouble" is something that might make this issue worse. This idea of going through hard times alone even if you have loved ones is an Asian ideal that I can't really understand and I believe it's so damaging considering the mental health and suicide issues that are so prevalent there. If a story can be told better in fewer episodes, do it! It's better than spoiling a story that was good to begin with. The last few 4 or so episodes seemed like fillers with lots of throwbacks and nonsensical plot lines. This is not a healthy way of creating emotions in people. At this point they just seem like the bad teacher that hits you so you become better. Writers should stop trying to make the audience cry.
The writer had been playing with this since the beginning by giving the doctor a case of pills to carry everywhere. The grief from death isn't the same as the grief from a breakup. If someone I loved pretended to be dead for 5 yrs and suddenly appeared in front of me, I wouldn't even want to look at their face. If you're the viewer that needs closure, forget this drama existed and watch something else (Search:Read More Verdict? If you're okay with leaving things open-ended, watch until the airport scene in episode 15. And the mysteries surrounding the leads' past and the identity of the titular character were nicely done. Never watched Go Ara's works before but she played this clueless happy-go-lucky girl pretty well. I had so much hope for Lee Jae-wook's big first male lead role, and for the amazing cast of support characters like the doctor and Rara's landlady. Until the writers decided to just play with our feelings and execute the most unrealistic finale just so they could tell the audience they gave us a "happy end." Long story short, it was such a wasted potential because that big fate reveal was so touching and the main romance line was totally shippable
Details in episode 16, I've marked this review spoilerless so ask in the comments if you are really desperate. you know, ONE OF THOSE.Īnd the way the writers attempted to resolve this conflict was even worse. Great cast, great chemistry, interesting plot points:Ĥ) relationship lines of the secondary couplesīut then suddenly at episode 14, the writers decided that things were looking too prematurely good for the leads that they had to go through one of those stupid draggy kdrama tropes: a lead character gets an incurable disease and the characters don't communicate, a lead character suddenly gets into a car crash and loses their memory, an ex-girlfriend appears and makes the female lead jealous and the leads don't communicate. Earlier episodes 8.5/10, finale 0/10 The story had so much promise.