I really hope this does amazing in sales and Eggers gets a chance at even bigger films like he wants

Idk if it releases at the same time over there

Yeah cool movies are always late over here but nothing's going to stop me from seeing this and de cinema

I’d be shocked if this even makes its budget back tbh

Uncut Gems was an easier sell than this and it barely did $50 mil

You think so? I feel like a straight forward action / fantasy flick is an easier sell than Adam Sandler in a crime movie

The 2010s had plenty of “straight-forward action / fantasy films” which flopped like Tarzan and King Arthur. I want this to do well but will be shocked if this makes over $200 million.

Those movies had terrible reviews though, this is getting a good buzz, and Eggers already built up good will with critical acclaim at this point. I feel like this is more marketable than Tarzan for sure. But we’ll see

Well then it might accidentally be one of those testaments to the peak craftsmanship of the time when studios like MGM used to dedicate one gargantuan production a year to the gods of art not profit knowing it won't turn a profit but will add prestige to the company

Focus Features is known for that. Phantom Thread didn’t break the bank but was one of the best films of the last 20 years

Seeing this Wednesday

The way it looks is very pretty. Makes me want to see it. Dramatic.

But I'm kinda reaching my tolerance on white people right now.

The Lighthouse is still some of the creepiest s*** I've seen in years

We need more POC filmmakers

With the same budgets and resources

Feel me? I’m tryna look up what’s the highest budgeted movie for a black filmmaker. I’m guessing Black Panther? But we already know why that budget was so high.

Nah it's Fast and Furious (2017). F Gary Gray got 250 mill to make that which is like really surprising LMAO. Black Panther was #2

nigga i didn't even know fast n furious was directed by a black person

But do you know whats the biggest budget for a black movie? And i mean something that isn't backed by a white franchise like Black panther and Fast and furious

Biggest non franchise movie by a black director is either Antoine Fuqua with King Arthur in 2004 at $120 mil unadjusted. Followed by Ava Duvernay's A Wrinkle In Time at $100 mil but even then that's under Disney.

With out all that think it might be Spike Lee's Malcolm X at $33 million

Yeah when I say franchise I mean big companies backing too like Disney.

But okay Spike Lee. I was thinking that. That’s alarming. If Robbert Eggers is getting 90 mill to cook why aren’t black directors getting the same. There’s a difference between Disney saying “here’s 100 mill make this movie please” VS “here’s 100 mill make whatever you want”

Bro it gets worse listen to this

Spike Lee also encountered difficulty in securing a sufficient budget. Lee told Warner Bros. and the bond company that a budget of over US$30 million was necessary; the studio disagreed and offered a lower amount. Following advice from fellow director Francis Ford Coppola, Lee got "the movie company pregnant": taking the movie far enough along into actual production to attempt to force the studio to increase the budget. The film, initially budgeted at $28 million, climbed to nearly $33 million. Lee contributed $2 million of his own $3 million salary. Completion Bond Company, which assumed financial control in January 1992, refused to approve any more expenditures; in addition, the studio and bond company instructed Lee that the film could be no longer than two hours, fifteen minutes in length. The resulting conflict caused the project to be shut down in post-production.

The film was saved by the financial intervention of prominent black Americans, some of whom appear in the film: Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Tracy Chapman, and Peggy Cooper Cafritz, founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Their contributions were made as donations; as Lee noted: "This is not a loan. They are not investing in the film. These are black folks with some money who came to the rescue of the movie. As a result, this film will be my version. Not the bond company's version, not Warner Brothers'. I will do the film the way it ought to be, and it will be over three hours." The actions of such prominent members of the African American community giving their money helped finish the project as Lee envisioned it.

It literally took mad black icons for this movie to get the bread it needed. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Prince???

Nah see that’s bullshit smh. And apparently Spike hasn’t went that high in budget since. I don’t get how Spike of all people can’t get a high ass budget, a living f***ing legend. Yet Eggers getting 90 mill just off of making Witch and Lighthouse.

yea it's pretty wild I wonder if newer guys like Coogler & Peele can change s*** around tho

I’d hope man. I mean it says Nope is 20 mill. Him, Eggers and Ari kinda get thrown into the same category of these new horror films yet Peele ain’t getting 90 mill and he’s more than proven himself. Coogler prolly will get it tho for what he did with blank panther.

Idk white ppl just don’t trust niggas with money