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Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Surpasses $400 Million Globally
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Just watched it last night, and it’s been so long since I just sat there staring at nothing processing the movie after it ended. I’m pretty much desensitized to horror jumpscares, but this movie gave me at least 10 full body chills. What a performance!
Similar experience. And when we watched it again, we notice others did this too, credits rolling and they just sit there and stare in silence. Amazing movie
I really enjoyed this film. The whole thing was so tense! Instant classic in the horror genre. It feels like there’s been a bit of a renaissance over the last decade or so.
As a horror fan, I’m very happy we get so many good horrors in the past years. I’m a bit worried that big studios see this success and will now decide to churn out too many low quality horrors
I hope she gets an Oscar nod, that performance was amazing!
I hope so, it would be well deserved. With Sinners and Weapons getting recognized last year, I hope this movie doesn’t go unnoticed
I don’t get the hype. I’m not a fan of horror but I thought Longlegs was more interesting. The acting was just typical and didn’t call for anything extraordinary.
Watching original movies make lots of money while Supergirl and Minions flop… that brings a smile to my face.
It’s a union busting movie
how so?
The crew was actively discouraged against working with IATSE, and lower budget productions aren’t really tracked by the union. There are like formal and informal rules that create loopholes for indie films in the labor laws. Then, the producers sold the movie to Focus Features, a Canadian distributor outside of US union reach and influence, for $13M, stirring up controversy avout, among other things, the visual effects coordinator was paid $200 per diem on a production that took like 3 weeks or something. Unlike the Markiplier movie, profits weren’t shared, and that’s why there needs to be union rep.
Combined with the general trend of basically all new entertainment business models of the last decade going toward busting unions and paying actors and writers less, especially as labor movements kick off in these industries, and you can see how the success of this movie is being goosed by how much profit it generates outside of union contract agreements.
Mother fuckers! I didn’t know any of that, thanks for sharing. It sounds a lot like how reality TV came to be, wasn’t that a way of breaking the picket lines of a writers strike quite a few years back
Right, same with streaming services, shorter seasons, etc., all ways of damaging the unions and squeezing more profits out of creatives. Now there’s this hunt for YouTube stories/shorts to base new productions on. Cheaper, non union pre production and marketing, lower production budgets which skirt union contracts, and now the addition of teaming up with distribution outside the reach of unions.
I read a blog post from IATSE about paying closer attention to indie productions for this reason, but I think that might run against capacity and bureaucracy limits of the unions. Time will tell.
Is it fuck Curry?
Is what?
This is the Curry Barker movie, thought he was cool but fuck union busting
This quote has been all but completely buried, or usually emphasizes the how he thanked the crew, and said the movie’s success would create new opportunities for creative workers. I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice dude. But where it concerns “financial risk” takers, he knows where the bread gets buttered.
This movie was made for so little money that it’s typical that the only people who [directly] benefit from its financial success are the people who took on some sort of risk
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