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'Napoleon' tops Thanksgiving box office
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27/11/2023
Film Critic Karen Krizanovich spoke to CGTN Europe on the thanksgiving box office.
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film critic Karen Krasanovic. Great to see you, Karen, as always. I want to start, let's
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start with Disney. Celebrating 100 years, betting big on a family flick, but do they
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need to wish on another star? I think they need to wish on quite a few different stars,
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yeah. You know, the critics didn't really like Wish, not that the critics have, you
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know, that much, that much thrall these days, but when a bunch of critics don't really like
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something that Disney's doing, then they know Disney has got a problem. And I think one
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critic called Wish a YA adaptation of Les Mis, Les Miserables, which I thought was really
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funny. It tries to be everything to all people, and I think that is the problem with Wish,
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and that's also the problem with Strange World, because it was last year, bombed last Thanksgiving
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as well. They're just trying to play it too safe. What about Napoleon, a much more of
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a grown-up film, big director, epic budget, long running time? Yeah, well, the great thing
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about Napoleon, it's almost like two films pushed together. There's the romance, period,
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and then there's also these great battles, particularly Austerlitz, which is getting
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the critical notion, just, you know, it set a world record for artificial snow, I'll have
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to say. It's exciting and it's strange. There's a love story there, that if you're bored with
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the battles, you can watch that. If you're bored with that, you can watch the battles.
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And I think it's a remarkable bit of filmmaking, and I can't wait for the longer director's
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cut. I wonder, though, how it's going to do in some other key territories where it hasn't
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been released yet. I'm thinking of China. And also, Karen, how much the box office dollars
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mean to someone like Apple? Well, you have to remember that Apple, these two, Killers
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of the Flower Moon and Napoleon, are kind of lost leaders for Apple. They're not really
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expecting those films to make back their budget or their marketing budget. Don't forget, a
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production budget is only one part of the budget, and then that again. So if it's 200
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million, the whole cost of the film is going to be at least 400 million. These are things
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to grab our attention for the company. So I think that that's what we're looking at.
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We're looking at spectacular quality films. What about franchises, though? There seems
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to be a lot of those happening. The Hunger Games, Trolls, Marvel. Well, those are great
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family movies for the most part. I mean, Marvel's never really smelled quite right. The cast
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is wonderful. It's an innovative script, but it's just very flat-heeling. Trolls is fun.
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And it's, you know, the great thing about a franchise is that you know what you're going
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to get. Now, I love the way you said Songbirds and Snakes. You got it right. I wanted to
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call it Songbirds and Snacks. It's remarkable because it didn't do very well in its first
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week, and its second weekend it's doing very well. I think it's got good word of mouth,
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and it's setting up its own projection for another franchise, even though it is technically
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a prequel. And what's the outlook for indie films? I remember on the
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awards circuit last year, you and I were talking quite a lot about After Sun, which did very
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well. What should we go and see that might not be on billboards, might not be on our
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radar? Wow, there's so much. I've seen 150 features
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this year, and a lot of them have been independents. There are so many good independents. For example,
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I guess I shouldn't say Yorgos Lathimos, Poor Things, which won at Venice. I'm not really
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sure that is an independent, hasn't really come out yet. The Holdovers, Alexander Payne,
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is a wonderful film. Again, I'm not really sure if that's an independent, but these are
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things that don't have this big, big profile. There's a wonderful film, Argentinian film,
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called The Delinquents. It's three hours long, but the first two hours are great. So there
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is an awful lot to see. There's a huge choice. And if the topic grabs you, go and see it
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and give it a try. Karen Krusanovich, always a pleasure chatting
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to you about the movies. Thanks so much.
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