"One Battle After Another" needs roughly $300 million to break even in theaters. The film's current $140 million gross is impressive for an original movie that's R rated and nearly three hours long, but the film is still tracking to lose $100 million.
Warner Bros. spent more than $130 million on production and $70 million on promotional efforts, and ticket sales are typically split 50-50 between studios and theater operators.
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PT Anderson being a celebrated auteur while living as a normal dude in the Valley with Maya Rudolph, taking their 4 kids to Marvel movies and such, is incredibly endearing. It's Balzac's quote about living an orderly bourgeois life so you can be original in your art come to life.
Reviews for Frankenstein looking bleak:
"He doesn't even dance!" reports Variety
"Not one single mash in the whole movie," bemoans Collider
"Why would you show him working in the lab late one night and beholding an eerie sight if you aren't going to play it?" asks the Times
Rewatching THE BIG LEBOWSKI for the first time in a few years, and it’s a brilliant for many reasons, but here’s a big one. Every single character has a unique dialect, every one of them is funny, and even funnier when paired up in contrast.