movies

1776 readers

180 users here now

Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.

🔎 Find discussion threads

A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome

Discussion threads to discuss about a specific movie or show
Weekly threads: what have you been watching lately?
Trailers
Posters
Retrospectives
Should I watch?

Related communities:

Show communities:

Discussion communities:

RULES

Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.

Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.

Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.

2024 discussion threads

Dune

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

According to the Wall Street Journal, "Wicked" Parts One and Two cost $320 million ($160 million per film). Both parts were shot back-to-back. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Article (paywalled)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I was a bit excited but this constant two part money grab bullshit is just too much. In no way was two movies necessary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

I’m not a fan in the slightest but someone else said that the stage production omits a lot of stuff from what is written in the books. If that is true then there’s a possibility that the film(s) could be an expanded version… but it’s probably just a cash grab.