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bl1222
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 Knives Out - What Went Right? Despite releasing on Thanksgiving, it will finish at around $150-$160 or even more despite it opened at $26.7m in its 3-day portion. Live-action films rarely have fantastic legs post-Thanksgiving. I feel this deserves its own thread!!!
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Excel
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? It was both original and great - there's always an audience for those films
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mark66
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? WWR? - It's not THE LAST JEDI...
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Chippy
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? Goodwill for Rian Johnson and his wonderful Last Jedi. Plus it was great and appealed to a wide audience. Also, films that have something to say typically do well.
(Though, honestly, I do believe a lot of people wanted to support Rian)
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Dil
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? Excel wrote: It was both original and great - there's always an audience for those films Pretty much this, and it helps that their weren't a whole lot of other appealing options for adults to see over the holidays considering most of them flopped.
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Rev
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? RIAN JOHNSON
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Flava'd vs The World
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? Too bad he RUINED who-dunnit-murder-mysteries. Knives Out 2 will have to reveal that Tim Curry's character from Clue was actually behind everything all along.
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Rev
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? Flava'd vs The World wrote: Too bad he RUINED who-dunnit-murder-mysteries. Knives Out 2 will have to reveal that Tim Curry's character from Clue was actually behind everything all along. Oh STFU!
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Mau
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? It really is an awesome film that caught on?
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? Great and different product with decent marketing and it delivered not only with critics but with audience alike. The targeted adult oriented audience definitely helped its legs.
The audience felt like they are on a journey with Marta which I think is the key to its success as well.
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Skyblade
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Re: Knives Out - What Went Right? It does whatever the opposite of "falling between two stools" is. The right mix of old-fashioned and topical. The cast is star-studded but not in a way that makes you think "that's it" It's smart, but in a way that makes people who buy puzzle books at the airport feel smart, like Inception. It's the perfect consensus pick, but has just enough oomph to not be a compromise candidate.
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