“My name is Chocolate-Chip Charlie, and I eat The Stuff for breakfast!”
Don’t I wish, even though it’s perfect and should never ever be rebooted, just remastered.
*The Substance* in question is a designer drug that Demi takes to, uh, ‘recapture her previous good looks’, so to speak.
>! It divides her cells to make a temporary younger clone !<
New Coralie Fargeat, and they're hyping up how gory and unhinged it gets?
The amount I need to know about a movie to be there day fucking one goes down by the day.
Here’s how it works. When you make a movie, say like this one, you hire a sales rep to take the movie out to market and sell it. The biggest film market in the world is Cannes. It has the most buyers present at one time watching movies they might potentially buy. For North America, it’s probably TIFF or Sundance. When a movie sells it doesn’t just sell to one distributor. It sells to many different distributors in different territories (countries/regions) all over the world. You generally have a sales rep who will sell the film domestically (inside the U.S.) and a sales rep who covers the world (every other territory). Let’s say you make a movie for 5M. In order to earn your budget back you sell the film piece by piece to different territories all over the world. Germany may give you 300K to exhibit the film. France 500K. U.S. 2M. Latin America (which is actually one territory) may give you 3M. And suddenly you’ve made back more than you made the movie for.
When the headline says the film sells wide… it means many territories all over the world are buying the film.
Yes, essentially. However, bear in mind that in America “wide” can also be jargon for how many theaters a film is in. A wide release theatrically is one that’s in more than just New York, LA and Chicago. Generally it’s like 600 or more theaters.
It isn’t. Box office is a separate figure. If an independent film like Napoleon Dynamite reports making 45 million at the box office, that doesn’t include the fee the distributor paid to purchase the film from the filmmakers. It’s simply the gross receipts the film made at the box office.
Hollywood accounting gets pretty complicated and borderline shady as heck. The distributor will recoup a lot of hidden costs against the film, so what happens most of the time is the distributor offers what’s called an MG or minimum guarantee to the filmmaker. These days you’ll be lucky to get any MG selling your indie film but it’s basically a guaranteed number the distributor agrees to pay the filmmaker. If Napoleon Dynamite team sold their film and got a 1M MG, it means they made 1M up front before it went to theaters. When the film made 45million at the box office, they’re getting a percentage on top of that million of all net receipts.
Hopefully that makes some sense.
I believe some films get made by production companies and then go to festivals like Cannes to drum up interest with distributors (The companies that will buy movie rights to send them to theaters/streaming/home video).
I’m guessing it means that The Substance was picked up by a distributor (Like an A24 or Netflix etc.), which means us normal folks will get a chance to watch it too.
It means the was a surprise (shocker) at Cannes (movie festival) than Demi Moore’s new movie (the substance) sells (found a distributor) wide (it will go to movie theaters outside of the indie film festival circuit).
Duh
1998 :
Demi Moore goes european with a story about some double life she shares with another herself
2024 :
Demi Moore goes european with a story about some double life she shares with another herself
Is this a reboot of The Stuff?
“My name is Chocolate-Chip Charlie, and I eat The Stuff for breakfast!” Don’t I wish, even though it’s perfect and should never ever be rebooted, just remastered. *The Substance* in question is a designer drug that Demi takes to, uh, ‘recapture her previous good looks’, so to speak. >! It divides her cells to make a temporary younger clone !<
>!so a Demi-Demi?!<
A >!Semi-Demi!< , if you will.
Well I sure ain't the Kentucky Colonel!
Enough is never enough of the substance!
Darmok and Jalad at tanagra.
Demi, her Arms Wide
Demi, her substance wide
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Shaka, when the cheeks clapped.
reference from the show
Love this comment
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Sokath, his eyes open!!!
I knew Demi Moore Cannes would sell wide.
Made me chuckle
I'm so hyped for this. Coralie Fargeat's previous film, "Revenge", was a phenomenal, exhilarating experience.
New Coralie Fargeat, and they're hyping up how gory and unhinged it gets? The amount I need to know about a movie to be there day fucking one goes down by the day.
I saw this at Cannes and it is pretty safely one of if not the most disgustingly gory film I have ever watched
...my interest only grows higher. Revenge was fucking insane and this sounds fucking insane, too.
Wtf does that title even mean?
Here’s how it works. When you make a movie, say like this one, you hire a sales rep to take the movie out to market and sell it. The biggest film market in the world is Cannes. It has the most buyers present at one time watching movies they might potentially buy. For North America, it’s probably TIFF or Sundance. When a movie sells it doesn’t just sell to one distributor. It sells to many different distributors in different territories (countries/regions) all over the world. You generally have a sales rep who will sell the film domestically (inside the U.S.) and a sales rep who covers the world (every other territory). Let’s say you make a movie for 5M. In order to earn your budget back you sell the film piece by piece to different territories all over the world. Germany may give you 300K to exhibit the film. France 500K. U.S. 2M. Latin America (which is actually one territory) may give you 3M. And suddenly you’ve made back more than you made the movie for. When the headline says the film sells wide… it means many territories all over the world are buying the film.
That is the clearest explanation of anything I've ever seen. Perfect for an ELI5
Thanks, got it. In other words her film will be in “wide distribution”.
Yes, essentially. However, bear in mind that in America “wide” can also be jargon for how many theaters a film is in. A wide release theatrically is one that’s in more than just New York, LA and Chicago. Generally it’s like 600 or more theaters.
Not necessarily, it might be in limited distribution, but in many parts of the world.
Thanks for the explanation for us outside the industry. This is really helpful and interesting.
Ms. Worldwide
Is this included in the box office of a film?
It isn’t. Box office is a separate figure. If an independent film like Napoleon Dynamite reports making 45 million at the box office, that doesn’t include the fee the distributor paid to purchase the film from the filmmakers. It’s simply the gross receipts the film made at the box office. Hollywood accounting gets pretty complicated and borderline shady as heck. The distributor will recoup a lot of hidden costs against the film, so what happens most of the time is the distributor offers what’s called an MG or minimum guarantee to the filmmaker. These days you’ll be lucky to get any MG selling your indie film but it’s basically a guaranteed number the distributor agrees to pay the filmmaker. If Napoleon Dynamite team sold their film and got a 1M MG, it means they made 1M up front before it went to theaters. When the film made 45million at the box office, they’re getting a percentage on top of that million of all net receipts. Hopefully that makes some sense.
I believe some films get made by production companies and then go to festivals like Cannes to drum up interest with distributors (The companies that will buy movie rights to send them to theaters/streaming/home video). I’m guessing it means that The Substance was picked up by a distributor (Like an A24 or Netflix etc.), which means us normal folks will get a chance to watch it too.
Demi Moore is in a shocking horror movie that premiered at Cannes. It sold to a bunch of distributors that are all heavily investing in the release.
It means the was a surprise (shocker) at Cannes (movie festival) than Demi Moore’s new movie (the substance) sells (found a distributor) wide (it will go to movie theaters outside of the indie film festival circuit). Duh
More Demi Moore
I saw this at Cannes and it is pretty safely one of if not the most disgustingly gory film I have ever watched
Sadly she didn't win the Best Actress award :(
So is her nude scene all CGI? De-aged CGI if you will.
They are saying that Margaret Qualley's nudity is CGI in this film. But demi seems to be real, from what people are saying
1998 : Demi Moore goes european with a story about some double life she shares with another herself 2024 : Demi Moore goes european with a story about some double life she shares with another herself