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Buscemi2 wrote:Lionsgate has scheduled Beast for a 5/11/2018 date. This I believe is the first Sundance pickup to get scheduled.

Not an X-Men spinoff, I hope.

No, it's a crime drama from the UK.

Wasn't there a film of the same title with Ben Kingsley a few years back?

Sexy Beast was the movie with Kingsley right?

Correct. Reasonable success in its day, too ($6.9 million gross in less than 200 theatres).

Ah, that's right. Always meant to watch that film, never got around to it.

Beast was picked up before Sundance - in Dec in a deal between Roadside and 40 West. The director is a friend of mine, and I'm delighted for him. And it is not like Sexy Beast at all

Where Did You Go, Bernadette? has been pushed all the way to 10/19/2018 (from 5/11/2018). I wonder if this might lead to an MGM title moving up to that spot (I'm convinced Fighting with My Family will move up, especially with Operation Finale getting scheduled for September).

Meanwhile, Beirut has moved up two days to 4/11/2018.

And Paramount still intends to release Overlord despite selling off (for over $50 million) The Cloverfield Paradox. If I were Paramount, I'd just wait for the paycheck and pure profit than blow $25-30 million in marketing on a possible flop.

numbersix wrote:Beast was picked up before Sundance - in Dec in a deal between Roadside and 40 West. The director is a friend of mine, and I'm delighted for him. And it is not like Sexy Beast at all

Well, based on that, I'll add it to the roster for the March-May pricing schemes.

Paramount is scared and seems to believe everything they release will flop. Selling off a portion of Annihilation, dumping Cloverfield, Sherlock Gnomes is next and looks like a dud... Besides Mission Impossible they’re assured to make money where? Top Gun in 2019?

I'm wondering how much Lionsgate would offer if they're still interested.

Yeah, Paramount's got a rough year coming up.

A Quiet Place should do well, but it's only a mid sized product. They're shuffling Action Point around (and are probably not done, as now Solo is confirmed for May) and don't have a summer tentpole except for MI:6.

Anyone have any idea what their Event Film is that's scheduled for November?

It was probably going to be one of these Hasbro/Nickelodeon projects that keeps getting pushed for one reason or another. They've also been rumored to have Sonic the Hedgehog (of which I have to wonder who the audience is beside furries). In short, who knows?

And if It Comes at Night couldn't hit $15 million, I can't see A Quiet Place making more than $30 million. Fat Halpert's not more marketable than Joel Edgerton.

That Quiet Place trailer is pretty good and has created some awareness that It Comes at Night didn’t have to my recollection. It couldn’t have cost much to make, so it’ll be maybe the only movie besides MI to be positive for them this year. And I think Emily Blunt is more marketable than both of them. I’d give the edge to Krasinski, though no one is seeing a film specifically for them.

Buff Jim Halpert has been getting a bit of buzz.

Krasinski's last directorial effort was little-seen and did anyone remember him from 13 Hours? And there really hasn't been much buzz for his Jack Ryan series. Emily Blunt's only recognizable because she was actually willing to move to the US full-time. This is why she's become the go-to actress for every English character in a Hollywood film (and remember, the studio heads only know about five or six actresses).

A Quiet Place is going to be viewed more as a Michael Bay production than as John Krasinski's latest vanity project. Without Bay, it wouldn't have been made.