Sorry, i love the Easy Rawlins novels. Great characters, great mysteries. I can
see how it might have gotten him pigeonholed, though...
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From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:33:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Hollywood Extinction: Old Dinosaurs die at Box Office
Although he was great at it ("Face Off"), John Woo was not a fan of the
formulaic movies he was making. After MI-2, he thought he had the cachet to
make the kind of movie he wanted. He made "Windtalkers" (2002) a
well-intentioned movie starring Nicholas Cage that took in $77 million
worldwide ($40 million in America) on a budget of $115 million. "Windtalkers"
is his "Heaven's Gate."
This is why I don't write that urban lit shit even though I know I can get it
published - I don't want to HAVE to write it. It is hard to get out of any
ghetto. Walter Mosley wants to write SF but he wrote the Easy Rawlins' novels
to get published. Now he is pigeon-holed as a detective fiction writer. It
ain't terrible; but it ain't good, either.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@...> wrote:
>
> That statement reminds me of John Woo movies. At one time, his name was box
> office gold. After a string of hits using the same formula, and many people
> creating carbon copies, his name became synonymous with B-movies.
>
> What's he doing these days, has he had a comeback with a new formula? I
> never hear of him anymore
>
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> Behalf Of B Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:55 AM
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>
> The old formula picture doesn't seem to work at the box office unless they
> throw some new spin on it. From Paris With Love was probably a slam dunk
> once upon a time but the buddy cop genre seems stale now. I think Kevin
> Smith's Cop Out is going to suffer the same fate.
>
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Kelwyn" <ravenadal@> wrote:
> >
> > I expected more from Harrison's film because, apparently, he is still a
> box office draw. I attend a lot of sneak previews (I am going to see
> "Shutter Island," tonight. These are typically oversold. The biggest crowd
> I have seen this year was for the Ford picture. My date and I arrived an
> hour early and could not get into the theater. For comparison, the second
> biggest crowd I have seen for one of these was for "Sherlock Holmes" (which
> I also did not get into) and Holmes proved to be a box office success. "The
> Book of Eli" was well attended but the theater was not full and "Eli" has
> done respectable business. I guess that is the problem with Hollywood: you
> never know.
> >
> > ~rave!
> >
> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Mr. Worf" <HelloMahogany@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think the timing was wrong for all three films. In the case of Ford's
> film
> > > they should have waited for the interviews about the movie to happen
> before
> > > the movie was released. Better still timed it with another medical
> movie. It
> > > doesn't help if the movie is mediocre as well.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Kelwyn <ravenadal@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Harrison Ford's "Extraordinary Measures" grosses $12 million
> (budget:$31
> > > > million)
> > > >
> > > > John Travolta's "From Paris with Love" grosses $17.9 million
> (budget:$52
> > > > million)
> > > >
> > > > Mel Gibson's "Edge of Darkness" grosses $37 million (budget: $80
> million)
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