every dog has its day
Nikki Finke’s story yesterday morning about HS3 was interesting. Hollywood seems offended their High Art movies (like W) are being shellacked by pure entertainment movies. They (the Hollywood crowd) are serious artists, doncha know.
Stone attempted to make “W” and wound up making an “F”.
It cost $30 mil. It will make $25 mil domestic.
This should make his next project “Palin” that much harder to get off the ground. Sniff, sniff, sob, sob...
Oliver Stone hasn’t had a hit film in 14 years. Why does this guy continue to get financed with a track record of one box office dud after another?
Anyone who has seen the trailer to this farce on TV would have to be a fool to want to go pay to see it. Even the crummy trailer is bad.
My prediction is Josh Brolin will still receive an Oscar nomination, despite the fact the film was a failure. They’ll show us.
This is going to run on the 3 am HBO off channels right after bill mahhers ...
Well, when you make a movie about someone, and it bombs at the box office, what does that tell you about the life of the person portrayed in the movie?
History will be very unkind to GWB.
In the minds of this movie’s target audience, President Bush is irrelevant. He is yesterday’s news. They don’t even care enough to hate him anymore.
Besides, they have John McCain and Sarah Palin to hate now. One can only hate so many people at a time, you know.
The damage to film making done by directors like Stone doesn’t just consist of the movies they make but the movies that won’t be made. For example, thanks to Stone there won’t be another attempt to make a film bio of Alexander the Great for at least another generation. And thanks to Alexander’s failure the proposed films about Hannibal (the Carthaginian, not the cannibal) never got off the ground. The failures of Stone and others prevent potentially good movies from being made.