timeware wrote: ↑May 28th, 2023, 12:40 pmIt was reported the Flash would have a $140 million opening. that expectation was cut in half to a $70 million dollar opening. Indy 5 has also been reported to have it's own problems due in large part to Kathleen Kennedy. I think Blue Beetle could be DC's last hope until their cinemaitic reboot takes place. The term big movies might end up being over hyped.
I'm not getting the relevance of either
The Flash's projected box office taking being halved, that there might be some behind-the-scenes problems with
Dial of Destiny, or that
Blue Beetle might be DC's "last hope", two of those movies are being released this summer, and a third in the early autumn, while "Firehouse" is intended to be due out in the winter... So there's no competition or issue with them and our new flick.
And to expand on Richard's post, are those reports about Kennedy actually from impartial and verified sources, or from commentators on sites like YouTube who could plausibly have an axe to grind?
I'm not a Kathleen Kennedy fanboy, but like Richard said, some folks seem a bit too quick to apportion blame to her as a convenient boogieman.
Bison256 wrote: ↑May 28th, 2023, 2:32 pm I don't think Callie knew a lot, nor do I think the guys knew her well as a child. I was thinking along the lines of that Peter and Ray knew of her because they had meet her and her mother at some point before the first flim. You know a simple hi, nice to meet you, cute kid you got there, etc. When I said I think Callie and Peter would get along I mean in this film with her as an adult.
I don't believe Callie had ever met the guys, or they her, prior to events of Gozer's return in Summerville.
Peter, as previously noted, seemed to be meeting Callie for the first time, as opposed to encountering someone he'd met many years ago... And Ray himself appeared surprised/thoughtful to learn that Egon had a granddaughter. Meanwhile, Janine approached her interactions with Callie as a hesitant executor of Egon's "estate", rather than someone who maybe met Callie when she was younger... It was largely business-first.
Given the type of person Egon was, I think the revelation that he had a daughter would've been something that Peter, Ray and Winston wouldn't have easily forgotten if they'd known about it when Callie was a child, which makes me feel that that was a part of his life he kept separate from the other Ghostbusters.
I also believe that what knowledge Callie did have about the Ghostbusters, was either from speaking to Janine when she visited Summerville, and/or from the stories about the Ghostbusters that circulated around the country over the years... The ones that Trevor alluded to.