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Re:Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet by MomoXenosaga on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:11PM (#30411550)
Movie theatres in the Netflix era need spectacular and bombastic films in order to draw a crowd. The kind of stuff that doesn't translate well on a 55 inch TV.
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Re:Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet by thirdsun on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:14AM (#30412754)
Dune is such a movie and yet Villeneuve basically had to beg and wait for the studio to greenlight Part II. This should have been shot back to back as it's simply an unfinished film in its current form.
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Re:Francis Ford Coppola’s $100M Dollar Bet by approxim8ion on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:17AM (#30412778)
> had to beg and wait

It was renewed within a month of release.

This is a franchise where individual movies cost $150m+ to make. I can see why a studio wouldn't be willing to greenlight all of it at one go, especially given how the previous adaptation attempt at the same franchise was not received well.

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