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Can't wait for the set pics and those great costumes 😄

Considered as one of the best horror movies in 2023. Well. It was ok. I guess.

Power of Saltburn

^It's also not necessarily fair to just pull off some numbers and calling it "the worst movie" of the franchise. Because it's not (this honor belongs to part 3 and 4). It is maybe less successful in numbers yes, but you also have to consider the changes cinema has made since the first HG movie entered theatres (or the 2nd part since this one is the most successful) thx to streaming services, peoples lack of capability to watch something longer than a freakin tik tok clip, the aftermath of a pandemic etc. Jennifer Lawrence already was a phenomen back then and so was her HG character Katniss Everdeen. Nowadays Jennifer Lawrence isn't capable to repeat this amount of success herself. Her last movie "No hard feelings" made 88 millions worldwide. Heck, DiCaprios latest oscar vihacle "Killers of the Flower Moon" even failed to bring in the bugdet of 200 million dollars and he's considered being one of the last big living movie stars. Songbirds and Snakes made three times what Lawrence and DiCaprio were capable to pull off this year at the box office. What does your calculation mean for their careers? Are movie stars simply dead? Other reasons for different conditions for Songbirds and Snakes are simple. It couldn't built the same hype. Collins just wrote the book in 2020, the movie was shot 2 years later. A fandom is also evolving it's not simply freezing in time, waiting patiently for the next installment. So people, conditions and expectations, mindsets are different than 10 years ago. It's also a movie about the antagonist Coriolanus Snow. So it's not a story about heros but a villain. Tom Blyth who plays Snow is a complete stranger - he's saying himself after this movie he's capable for the first time for not only choosing several future projects but having the oppurtnity of several projects on his plate. I guess it has the same effect for Rachel as an actress. And isn't this the very definition of success in Hollywood for young new faces? (if he's doing smart choices he will continue to land on top in the future) I mean the Twilight saga pulled of some very impressive numbers too (same for the books). Is it considered a good franchise though? LOL However paramount didn't even expect Songbirds and Snakes being nearwhere a hit. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes May Have Arrived Too Late to Succeed The Hunger Games Prequel Box Office Prediction: Will It Flop or Succeed? The Hunger Games Emerges As The Surprise Victor Of 2023's Thanksgiving Box Office “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” Surprises Everyone with Instant Success ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ successfully stands on its own Studios Can Learn From the Success of The Hunger Games Prequel Memorable Fandom Moments of 2023 In short: if you like it or not it's considered a box office hit and in Hollywood nearly nothing else matters. 2023 Box Office in Review: A Year Where Filmmakers Flourished and Franchises Failed Lionsgate — $586 million domestic Top films: “John Wick: Chapter 4” ($187.1 million domestic/$432 million worldwide); “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” ($160.6 million domestic/$322 million worldwide as of Jan. 1) Biggest busts: “Expend4bles” ($16.7 million domestic/$51.1 million worldwide); “Silent Night” ($7.9 million domestic/$9.7 million worldwide) With its strategy of keeping production costs down and selling international theatrical rights to overseas distributors, Lionsgate does business in a much different way than the big legacy studios. That resulted in a year that didn’t light up the charts but allowed for a low-risk/high-reward approach to the post-COVID box office. Though they were both well-received by critics and core audiences, “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” and “Joy Ride” never got traction with a wider audience and didn’t gross more than $20 million domestic. Then there was “Expend4bles,” a panned action sequel that grossed $16.7 million, a huge drop from the $103 million the first “Expendables” made in 2010. But Lionsgate scored huge victories in reviving franchises that seemed played out. Though it didn’t reach the heights of its early 2010s heyday, the “Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” legged out to $313 million worldwide against a $100 million budget, while “John Wick: Chapter 4” went even further, to a series-high $432 million. The low-budget “Saw X” rode unusually high critics’ reviews to a $53 million domestic and $109 million global run. Combine that with continued secondary support from faith-based partners Kingdom Story Company — which had a low-budget success with “Jesus Revolution” — and Lionsgate is finding stability in a turbulent period. @Handsomest_Spinja rottentomatoes isn't even accurate. Movies (especially disney) paying for good reviews there.

Doesn't have to mean anything but they got the last years winner Brendan Fraser right.

Lily also won in North Carolina: https://awardswatch.com/north-carolina-film-critics-association-ncfca-awards-oppenheimer-wins-10/ Runner up in Florida: http://www.centralflcritics.com/p/2023.html No more wins for KOTFM at both.

^she just had a massive blockbuster success (it's still running what means it will even gross more money) - based on a earlier even more successful franchise I'm aware of it but still I don't think the general audience cares for any of this overbloated internet hate.

^Well that went quick. Poor Mickey already gettin slaughtered LOL

Looks terrible but I still have some hopes for this movie.

Readers’ Poll Results — The Best Films of 2023 Over 350 lists were gathered for our annual readers’ poll. I want thank everyone who participated. This was a lot of fun to work on. I’m not surprised by the top two (Nolan and Scorsese), which might mirror my own list, but you’re all major ‘Holdovers’ fans. You also have massive love for Ari Aster’s polarizing “Beau is Afraid.” Check out “Dream Scenario” at #14 — I didn’t expect that. Obviously, some films have only been in theaters for a few weeks, so titles like “Poor Things” (#6) and “The Iron Claw” (#15) would have most likely fared better if I had waited a few weeks to conduct the poll. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” did not do as well as I expected, it finished 23rd. When compared to the critics’ tally — it’s currently the fifth most listed film of 2023 — it’s quite clear that our readers don’t share the same amount of love for Gerwig’s film as critics do. Results — 1) Oppenheimer (81 votes) 2) Killers of the Flower Moon (68) 3) The Holdovers (58) 4) Anatomy of A Fall (53) 5) May December (49) 6) Poor Things (48) 7) Past Lives (47) 8 )The Boy and the Heron (42) 9) Beau is Afraid (41) 10) The Zone of Interest (39) 11) The Killer (31) 12) Asteroid City (30) 13) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (29) 14) Dream Scenario (27) 15) The Iron Claw (23) 16) Maestro (23) 17) How to Blowup A Pipeline (21) 18) Fallen Leaves (21) 19) All Of Us Strangers (19) 20) Saltburn (19) 21) Godzilla Minus One (18) 22) As Bestas (16) 23) Barbie (16) 24) Passages (16) 25) Pacifiction (15) 26) Perfect Days (14) 27) Blackberry (14) 28) Talk to Me (14) 29) John Wick 4 (12) 30) The Taste of Things (11) I went through the movies and it's not much I actually watched I have to admit: Oppenheimer, KOTFM, Maestro, Saltburn and Barbie... that's it 😄 On my watchlist: The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Poor Things (even though I HATED the trailer too much weirdness for me LOL), Past Lives*, The Iron Claw, How to Blowup A Pipeline*, All Of Us Strangers, Godzilla Minus One, Passages, Talk to Me*, The Taste of Things (*3 of all movies are actually available in germany at this point) not sure: The Killer, Beau is Afraid, The Zone of Interest, Dream Scenario (even though I prefer Nicolas Cage over Phoenix and especially Fassbender any day) Also THIS In case you wonder what Leo smells like Cool Girl Candles has the answer https://www.coolgirlcandles.com/products/this-smells-like-leonardo-dicaprio-candle?_pos=1&_sid=670de48b4&_ss=r

Great cover... and he's hot 🎸 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxx2sEBOcFr/

Beautiful movie. One of my all time faves. They were truly madly in love

Another win for Lily ... and Rachel McAdams 🥰 The 2023 UK Film Critics Association (UKFCA) Winners Top 50 Films Of 2023 1. Oppenheimer 2. Past Lives 3. Killers of the Flower Moon 4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 5. Barbie 6. All Of Us Strangers 7. Poor Things 8. Anatomy Of A Fall 9. John Wick: Chapter 4 10. Saltburn 11. The Holdovers 12. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 13. The Zone of Interest 14. Rye Lane 15. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. 16. The Creator 17. May December 18. How To Have Sex 19. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 20. Godzilla Minus One 21. Babylon 22. The Killer 23. When Evil Lurks 24. Asteroid City 25. Perfect Days 26. The Old Oak 27. Evil Dead Rise 28. Passages 29. Hit Man 30. Nimona 31. BlackBerry 32. Suzume 33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 34. The Boy & The Heron 35. The Taste of Things 36. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 37. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 38. Four Daughters 39. The Beast 40. Priscilla 41. Elemental 42. Femme 43. Maestro 44. Fallen Leaves 45. Sisu 46. Full Time 47. They Clone Tyrone 48. Bottoms 49. Eileen 50. Wonka

Because season 3 is about to come I re watched ... and hands down Queen B is one of the best period dramas eeeeeeeeeeever. So goddamn well written and well acted, beautiful and heartbreaking from tip to toe. I'm usually not a big cryer in front of my TV but I found myself weeping a couple of times here 💔😭

The 25 Best Movies of 2023 The best movies of 2023 took us into the unknown. 15. “Killers of the Flower Moon” (dir. Martin Scorsese) Martin Scorsese may like to think of “Killers of the Flower Moon” as the Western that he always wanted to make, but this frequently spectacular American epic about the genocidal conspiracy that was visited upon the Osage Nation during the 1920s is more potent and self-possessed when it sticks a finger in one of the other genres that bubble up to the surface over the course of its three-and-a-half-hour runtime. The first and most obvious of those is a gangster drama in the grand tradition of the director’s previous work; just when it seemed like “The Irishman” might’ve been Scorsese’s final word on his signature genre, they’ve pulled him back in for another movie full of brutal killings, bitter voiceovers, and biting conclusions about the corruptive spirit of American capitalism. But if the “Reign of Terror” sometimes proves to be an uncomfortably vast backdrop for Scorsese’s more intimate brand of crime saga, “Killers of the Flower Moon” excels as a compellingly multi-faceted character study about the men behind the massacre. Over time, it becomes the most interesting of the many different movies that comprise it: A twisted love story about the marriage between an Osage woman (the indomitable Lily Gladstone) and the white man who — unbeknownst to her — helped murder her entire family so that he could inherit the headrights for their oil fortune (Leonardo DiCaprio, giving the best performance of his career as the dumbest and most vile character he’s ever played). Finding the right balance in this story is a challenge for a filmmaker as gifted and operatic as Scorsese, whose ability to tell any story rubs up against his ultimate admission that this might not be his story to tell. And so, for better or worse, Scorsese turns “Killers of the Flower Moon” into the kind of story that he can still tell better than anyone else: A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it. full list: https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-2023/brody-killers-of-the-flower-moon-copy/ Robert Eggers’ 10 Best Films of 2023 I always look forward to IndieWire’s annual polling where directors choose their best films of the year. This year, 37 filmmakers participated, and they include the likes of Sean Baker, Kitty Green, Ira Sachs, David Lowery, Andrew Haigh, Paul Schrader and Daniel Scheinert. “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Martin Scorsese) — A Scorsese epic at the height of his powers. The scale, richness, and depth of the world were truly inspiring and exceeded high expectations. The cast and casting were immaculate. Lily Gladstone and Ty Mitchell were particular standouts. The story is unflinching and shocking. more: https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/12/31/cf9kci9ztsogx42gpd0nv089gts23o

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Thrilling.

^Love her