Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-05 (Thursday)

On 12/6/2024 11:33 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

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Well, I did watch something.

 

I watched WOLFS on the Apple TVs. George Clooney and Brad Pitt play a
couple of aging fixers who end up on the same job and grudgingly are
forced to work together to clean up an accidental death in a hotel suite
where the NY district attorney (Amy Ryan) was canoodling with a young
kid who fell off the bed, hit his head, and died. Maybe. The movie goes
on from there with Pitt and Clooney unraveling a mystery with the help
of the not-quite-dead-yet victim.

 

Pretty good movie. Supposedly doing bang-up numbers on Apple, but plans
for a sequel have been quashed. Rumors are that Pitt and Clooney were
pissed off about the streaming release of it. They were apparently
expecting a theatrical release and they felt it was an insult to be
treated as a straight-to-video level commodity.

 Lemme guess: 'Cuz they don't get a percentage of the gross from
streaming, just from movie ticket sales.
 I find it hard to believe that actors still haven't figured out the
(lack of) revenue participation from streaming yet. Suckers.

It was a big bone in the negotiations in the last Hollywood strikes, so I'm pretty sure they have figured it out.  As I recall the issue was finding some way to force the streamers to release reliable, accurate numbers to the same standard.
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