Sure, movie budgets can get ridiculous these days, but making a movie is expensive.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the Captain Underpants book series, so you could imagine my excitement when Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie came out 7 years ago(!). “Dog Man” takes place in the Captain Underpants universe (it’s one of the comics that George and Harold create), though as I’ve gotten older I haven’t been able to keep up with the Dog Man books.

Long story short, if this is anything like Captain Underpants, I’ll be first in line to see this.

I imagine it’d be even worse than that live action ATLA movie

I think you mean James Cameron’s Avatar movie from 2009. There was never a film adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Ben 10 is an American media franchise conceived by Man of Action, produced by Cartoon Network Studios, and owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment. The franchise revolves around a young boy named Ben Tennyson, who discovers the Omnitrix — a high-tech, extraterrestrial device shaped like a wristwatch. This remarkable gadget contains the DNA of various alien species, allowing Ben to transform into them at will. Initially, the Omnitrix features ten alien transformations, but over time, Ben gains the ability to unlock additional species.

$100 million isn’t considered low budget in Hollywood.

I’ll do you one better - if you want your work to see the light of day at all, don’t sell your production to Warner-Discovery, as it might get cancelled for a tax writeoff.

So what do you think? Did we dodge a bullet or miss an opportunity?

Gen Z’s are people born between 1997-2012. So the oldest Gen Z is now 27 years old.

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All extremists should be killed.

/s

On it.

It’s not up to me, only the admins at lemmy.ml can do that.

Because my instance (lemmy.ml) has a slur filter, I can’t post the title of the movie without it getting removed.

It was certainly marketed as live action. Believe it or not, the opening sunrise shot is the only piece of live-action footage in the entire movie. The rest of the movie is photorealistic CGI animation.

It seems they liked it enough for it to make $1.6 billion.

And apparently it has an 88% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Understood.

I worked on Madame Webb

Would you mind doing an AMA?

Unfortunately, your kids can’t be told what the Matrix is. They have to see it for themselves.

The film was shot in a single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen from 4:30 to 7:00 A.M. on 27 April 2014 in the Kreuzberg and Mitte neighborhoods. The script consisted of 12 pages, with most of the dialogue being improvised.

To get financiers onboard, director Sebastian Schipper promised to deliver a version using traditional shot cutting as “plan B” if he couldn’t achieve the final product in a true single take. The cut version was filmed first, over 10 days, as a series of 10-minute takes, so that Schipper would have a completed film even if the one-take version failed. Schipper has characterised the cut version as “not good”. The budget permitted only three attempts at the one-take version. According to Schipper, the first attempt was dull because the actors were too cautious, being afraid to make mistakes; the second attempt was the opposite, as the actors went “crazy”. Schipper says he became “angry” and “terrified” after seeing the second take and realizing he had only one chance left; in a subsequent meeting, he gave the cast a “hairdryer speech … [it] was not a meeting that ended in hugs and ‘good talk.’ It was crazy. But the tension was built on knowing we wanted the same thing”. Schipper believes the final attempt was successful because there was an element of “aggression” missing from the other versions.