Good to know. We’re planning to see it in IMAX this weekend.
Thanks for the review !
Did you see the IMAX or regular version? Curious how the regular version holds up.
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Have you seen Godzilla Minus Zero?
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Barrels Toward Historic $32M Box Office Launch With ‘Cat in the Hat’ at No. 2
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Director Takashi Yamazaki on Sequel Pressure, Hollywood Offers and a Possible Third Film
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Fair enough point that if the target audience for the 20 somethings isn’t resonating with the show, it’s a problem.
But my question is whether that’s just a US social media thing or a real global take for the youth target audience.
Is Apple putting too much priority on chasing / selling shows to the declining US male youth audience that’s watching less and less television anyway?
Even in the US, the show brought in a larger and more diverse audience share to the franchise, not just preteen and adolescent boys looking for monsters bashing one another. Is it a bad thing when a show can draw young women?
The show did very well outside the US other than in the CANZUK countries and Ireland (which just seem not to have a large kaiju fandom base). Why fix what’s not broken when the show pulled some of Apple’s highest audience numbers overall?
As someone who watches a lot of Asian productions in the original languages with subtitles, mainly because American productions have less and less that interests me, I’m seeing this as a sign that decision makers in Hollywood are still stuck in the idea that if they make stuff for the US market, everyone will want to see it. Meanwhile, Asian produced content now dominates globally.
The spin off will take place in the 1980s after Lee Shaw returns from the Axis world the first time.
It’s being promoted as having a different tone, mixing Kaiju and Cold War spy thriller stuff. The cast seems packed for action.
✔️ have to agree but the title is a verbatim autofill from the article so I chose not to modify.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Crashes Into Tokyo Film Festival With Stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe in Tow
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
In honor of Eric Bauza’s passing, here is his interview with Phil Yu on All the Asians on Star Trek.
Here’s the CBC News Obituary piece.
Bauza, a Canadian, was originally from Scarborough in the Greater Toronto Area.
Turnaround and workout specialists then. It’s a well understood specialization in senior leadership.
But interesting that several were women, and the permanent positions are going to men.
I’d forgotten that one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, but 1999 is a long time ago now (and I had big life events that year). It sounds like I should track it down again.
The original television show ran 3 seasons on CBS, but the movie was distributed by Warner Brothers. So, whichever holds the IP rights, the merged Ellison company would have the rights.
Interesting how some of the executives brought in last year, when a merger was already in the works, are leaving already.
A Time Tunnel reboot would almost complete the set of early-mid 1960s sci-fi show IPs to bring back.
The only major one I can think of that’s been ignored to date is the bizarre fantasy Wild Wild West. It kind of had steampunk elements before steampunk was even a thing. That one deserves at least a movie.
Wow.
I loved Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as a child.
The original had women in significant roles, arguably with more status and authority than Star Trek until at least TNG, if not DS9. So, it makes sense to reboot it with a female lead.
But it was the combination of monsters in the deep and an exploratory vessel that made a VBS lunchbox my childhood favourite. Given the great quality of Kaiju Legendary Television has produced with the Monsterverse on Apple, this promises to be a high quality product for Paramount.
Godzilla Minus Zero Fans Can See New Movie in IMAX Before Anyone Else, Here's How
(www.comingsoon.net)
I’m taking this as a positive overall for now.
Beyond the merger, the pressure from the current US administration on the entertainment sector has and will continue to create a great deal of uncertainty. George Cheeks has sufficient time in with the television IP for Star Trek that he’s in a position to be protective while the movie franchise takes wild risks in order to achieve David Ellison’s moonshot level commitment to a high volume of cinematic releases.
On the other hand, no one in Ellison’s circle seems to have a clue that the world is moving rapidly away from US originated content - scripted or unscripted. Asia now produces more and audiences globally are becoming more and more interested in watching shows from across Asia.
Paramount invested heavily in a major South American television studio system but hasn’t brought new Spanish and Portuguese content to North America. It’s locked in a model where it sees non-English content as something just for regional markets rather than something to build a global streamer.
Most of the major review sites have filed at least a ‘first look’ review of Godzilla Minus Zero following the world premiere at the New York Film Festival last weekend.
It’s mostly enthusiastic, with the exception of the odd one that criticizes any focus on ‘boring human characters’ vs Kaiju bashing one another. There’s even early musing that the film is in the hunt for a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
Here’s a round up of the reviews:
The Guardian (previously posted)
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