RUMOR CONTROL...THESE ARE THE FACTS

[Matt]

Oddly enough, MOS was on one of the pay channels (HBO, probably) and I caught the last half hour or so of it.
Cavill deserves another one and I think he has enough inherent good will in the role to draw an audience with another one.

[Abraham Smashington]

I know it's not going to probably happen, but I'd still dig at least one more Supes movie with him in it. I fucking still love Man of Steel.

[Matt]

I won't believe anything on Cavill until there's a press release.

[FilmNerdJamie]

There's a new rumor about Cavill being Superman again every 6 months.

[Abraham Smashington]

CAVILL AS SUPES OR I KILL MYSELF

[FilmNerdJamie]

Henry Cavill is rumored for a return to the DCEU as Superman, joining the MCU and/or being added to House of the Dragon.

Can we please pick a lane with what bullshit rumor we want to push, Film Twitter??

[Abraham Smashington]

I mean, that's all it needs to be.

[Anderson]

Hey Troy! what's the word on BULLET TRAIN?

Watched it already. It is insanely disposable and I have to check my notes to remember half of it. Still, Brad Pitt was good.

[Matt]

Hey Troy! what's the word on BULLET TRAIN?

[Anderson]

In regards to the Halloween Ends news.

  Spoiler: Hah 

So, they're doing a bake-off. STILL.

A bake-off is when a studio can't commit to the final direction of a movie. The Weinsteins spent the late 90s and all of the 00s blowing this model up through the roof. It's why Cursed, all of their Asian pick-ups and indie stuff got brutally cut so much.

Basically, you pick a test market or two and set up two screens. You invite two groups of people who can't communicate into a theater to watch the same movie. But, it's different cuts. They've been doing this for 5 weeks on Halloween Ends (cough because a lot of ex Weinstein people are now Focus and Blumhouse people).

The test responses have been horrible on both cuts. Normally, this process takes a weekend to a full week at most. Maybe two weeks if it's bad. Right now, it's prepared to enter Week 6 starting this weekend.

What all of these people are struggling with is Corey the Copycat Killer and why this seemingly planned trilogy is taking such a HAAAARD right turn for its final part.

It's going so bad that Universal is wanting to step in to see if they can bump the movie, but the release window means it would get bumped to next April at earliest.

Nobody knows what to do. I used a contact from a Press friend to find two people at the Maricopa screening last weekend to see what they thought. They called it The Rise of Skywalker of Horror Movies. All of it felt rushed, too much new shit and it ends in a way that makes you think it's paying off 40 years of shit, but it's more of a LOOK AT SHIT from better movies collage.

[Anderson]

The fuel thing was so retarded. Glad it was dropped.

  Spoiler: TGIF 

It got replaced with a scene of a monkey going crazy on a TGIF style sitcom set and mauling people.

New Andy Serkis plays the monkey.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024953/?ref_=tt_cl_t_15

Traumatizes Glenn from Walking Dead as a kid.

[Abraham Smashington]

Us would have been much better received if it ended 20 minutes earlier.

100 FUCKING PERCENT. US got so far up it's own ass it ruined everything that came before. Also, I'm still on board for NOPE as I have not read anything about it.

[Martin]

The fuel thing was so retarded. Glad it was dropped.

[BillyG]

Us would have been much better received if it ended 20 minutes earlier.

[Anderson]

Rightly or wrongly, Peele is headed for a backlash.

Us had a pretty divisive reaction (outside of Lupita's lead performance) in addition to the negative reactions to The Twilight Zone revival he headlined/produced and Hunters.

Like M. Night, he got the "new Spielberg" press and wasn't wise enough to reject that narrative.

M. Night wanted the FANTASY WHIMSICAL SPIELBERG. Peele is leaning into the darker early aspects of what he did and it pays off. It is a fascinating movie.