This is what racism looks like. Very subtle, and leaves plenty of room for plausible deniability. But it sends a clear message to every person who looks at it.
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durkon_fanboy on
Fuck Variety, sorry it took me so long to notice
KendrickBlack502 on
Unless the same person wrote both of these, I don’t see this as much of an issue.
DiceMadeOfCheese on
How you spend $70 million on a movie about ping pong?
TBF, I have not seen it, so if there’s an alien invasion or something halfway through please let me know.
iwasboredsoyeah on
Reminds me of the coverage during Hurricane Katrina. Black people were “looting”, but white people were “finding” resources.
Rottenjohnnyfish on
16 million in two weeks is pretty weak sauce
LOLMaster0621 on
could the original intention of the sinners article have been to highlight the WB expectations for profits vs A24 films generally turning much smaller profits? that said even if it was, it still comes off like they were trying to undercut the success of what will surely be a prolific film. as several philosophers contended, it’s not about the intention, it’s the consequence.
background_action92 on
I liked Sinners and everyone knocked it out of the park, acting wise. But, that being said, even though that 70 milly budget is there( the cost of the settings are I imagine really expensive) it’s easier to sell a cool premise like Sinners than a ping pong catch me if you can movie like Supreme.
That movie is getting numbers on Chalamet going balls to the walls in the marketing department with little to no a24 investment.
Voxlings on
I was there. I lived through it. It wasn’t just Variety.
yesmoreeggtalk67 on
Timothee Chalamet gives me the icks.
mr_greedee on
they really lost lots of credibility and are just mouth pieces of racist corpos
FingerButHoleCrone on
My one wish for Variety is that some psychologist call this “the Variety Bias” in an academic paper so that it forever becomes part of the brand.
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The reason Sinners received stupid coverage was because Coogler (the writer/director) negotiated a deal that made him the owner to the movie’s rights after 20 years. Nearly all movies are owned by the studios, making the deal highly unusual and in order to try to discourage fellow filmmakers from asking the same thing, the industry started running hit pieces. While race plays a part, it wasn’t the driving force.
Skreamie on
I just wanna say I fucking love Kev
zoosha2curtaincall on
That movie Sinners was no angel
EatMyShortzZzZzZ on
I believe the studio managed to save money funding Coogler by giving him full ownership of the movie after a number of years and other things, thinking it would be a flop. Then it turned out to be a massive success and WB got salty lol.
Classic_Compote_3907 on
Sinners was decent, not great.
dreams_andnightmares on
Ben Stiller called this shit out for what it was. Folks really want to act like a film earning 2/3’s of its budget during opening week is underperforming. Not to mention all of the pocket watching they were doing with Coogler. Just weird dog whistles.
lil-privacy-please on
Hold it over their heads forever. The media are clowns.
sadieraine10 on
This is just like Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton. The Sun said ‘omg look how cute, Kate is touching her baby bump!!’ And then with Meghan it was ‘disgusting Meghan putting her gross hands on her barely there bump, she’s so performative!!’.
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This is what racism looks like. Very subtle, and leaves plenty of room for plausible deniability. But it sends a clear message to every person who looks at it.
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Fuck Variety, sorry it took me so long to notice
Unless the same person wrote both of these, I don’t see this as much of an issue.
How you spend $70 million on a movie about ping pong?
TBF, I have not seen it, so if there’s an alien invasion or something halfway through please let me know.
Reminds me of the coverage during Hurricane Katrina. Black people were “looting”, but white people were “finding” resources.
16 million in two weeks is pretty weak sauce
could the original intention of the sinners article have been to highlight the WB expectations for profits vs A24 films generally turning much smaller profits? that said even if it was, it still comes off like they were trying to undercut the success of what will surely be a prolific film. as several philosophers contended, it’s not about the intention, it’s the consequence.
I liked Sinners and everyone knocked it out of the park, acting wise. But, that being said, even though that 70 milly budget is there( the cost of the settings are I imagine really expensive) it’s easier to sell a cool premise like Sinners than a ping pong catch me if you can movie like Supreme.
That movie is getting numbers on Chalamet going balls to the walls in the marketing department with little to no a24 investment.
I was there. I lived through it. It wasn’t just Variety.
Timothee Chalamet gives me the icks.
they really lost lots of credibility and are just mouth pieces of racist corpos
My one wish for Variety is that some psychologist call this “the Variety Bias” in an academic paper so that it forever becomes part of the brand.
The reason Sinners received stupid coverage was because Coogler (the writer/director) negotiated a deal that made him the owner to the movie’s rights after 20 years. Nearly all movies are owned by the studios, making the deal highly unusual and in order to try to discourage fellow filmmakers from asking the same thing, the industry started running hit pieces. While race plays a part, it wasn’t the driving force.
I just wanna say I fucking love Kev
That movie Sinners was no angel
I believe the studio managed to save money funding Coogler by giving him full ownership of the movie after a number of years and other things, thinking it would be a flop. Then it turned out to be a massive success and WB got salty lol.
Sinners was decent, not great.
Ben Stiller called this shit out for what it was. Folks really want to act like a film earning 2/3’s of its budget during opening week is underperforming. Not to mention all of the pocket watching they were doing with Coogler. Just weird dog whistles.
Hold it over their heads forever. The media are clowns.
This is just like Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton. The Sun said ‘omg look how cute, Kate is touching her baby bump!!’ And then with Meghan it was ‘disgusting Meghan putting her gross hands on her barely there bump, she’s so performative!!’.