avatar 2 will need to make a profit of more than $2 billion just to break even. he told gq the movie is very effing expensive and possibly represented the worst case movie history. to put that in perspective, only five films have ever crossed the $2 billion mark and of course cameron s first film of the avatar series made $2.9 billion. let s bring in our friend, oliver darcy. hi. is it going to do it? good morning to you. why do they keep doing these big box office movies if they re not making that much money? i m watching a lot of streaming. this is just me, i don t remember the last time i went to a movie. the other thing too, the idea with avatar is it s the top-grossing movie of all time, $2.9 billion at the box office. but the issue here is that came
after winning adapted screenplay for call me by your name. nice night. let s be old. let s be old for a second. do you remember, jean and michael, when you would watch the academy awards and it would be all movies that americans actually saw like the sting the godfather. i mean, we re going way back there. no, we re old. people would actually oh, yeah, i saw four of those. i did see one flew over the cuckoo s nest. a lot of these movies are not big box office movies. and they ve double them so 10 movies for best picture but none of the actors or directors are in the movies. there s just not the middle ground anymore. you have movies that i take my kids to see, all the avengers
of technique. not a single word of dialogue in the whole movie. there s one person on screen for the whole time. and it s robert redford which helps because he has this kind of he s a real movie star. the definition of which i think is he s a guy you always want to be looking at whatever he s doing on screen. what he s doing is try to rig the jib on his sail boat. and save himself from a storm. it s such a careful and intense thriller, really. i mean it s like reading a hemingway short story or jack london short story. it has that kind of focus. it s about one thing, and that s the thing you care about when you re watching the movie. one of the interesting aspects of that movie is in this era of basically cartoonish big box office movies how did they get it made? i think getting robert redford on board helped. the director, this is his second film. his first film was called margin call.
technique. not a single word of dialogue in the whole movie. there s one person on screen for the whole time. and it s robert redford which helps because he has this kind of he s a real movie star. the definition of which i think is he s a guy you always want to be looking at whatever he s doing on screen. what he s doing is try to rig the jib on his sail boat. it s such a careful and intense thriller, really. i mean it s like reading a hemingway short story or jack london short story. it s about one thing, and that s the thing you care about when you re watching the movie. one of the interesting aspects of that movie is in this era of basically cartoonish big box office movies how did they get it instead i think getting robert redford on board helped. the director, this is his second film. his first film was called margin call.
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