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The carnage extended to other titles, but ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ remain strong.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•3 days ago

    “Batman and Robin” has entered the chat.

    I can think of a dozen successful science fiction novels that have been in publication as long, or longer than ‘Dune.’ Same thing with mystery series like Kinsey Malone [A is For Alibi] Any of them would have a built in audoence, but the execs will fo with something that’s been tried fifty times before because it’s got a track record.

    • Rhaedas
      13•3 days ago

      “John Carter” wasn’t a perfect movie, but it was a fun ride and failed mostly to bad marketing. I would have loved to see more.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 days ago

        I noped out after the first ten minutes.

        Here’s a really good one that died at the box office. “The Rhythm Section” with Blake Lively. It had the bad luck to come out in early 2020, right when everything shut down.

        It takes all the ‘revenge on terrorist’ tropes and upends them.