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

On Dec 6, 2024 at 6:06:40 PM PST, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@sonic.net>
wrote:

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

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
  

 . . .

 

 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.

As if the box office accounting of theatrical releases isn't subject to all
sorts of financial voodoo by the studios...