iTunes will carry it. They have a contract with Universal Studios for home distribution.
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'Steve Jobs' Movie Pulled From Over 2,000 Theaters After Flopping at Box Office
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Agreed.
I share your enthusiasm at seeing so many experts at MacRumors. One of the great assets of MacRumors is that it brings together experts from so many different fields.
Long may it continue.
Yes, I totally agree with this. I remember reading about it and how it was coming out and wanting to go see it either that Friday night or the coming Saturday night, but it was only showing in like LA and NYC or something. By the next weekend I had forgotten about it/didn't feel as hyped to go see it. Still haven't seen it, but probably will eventually... not in theaters, though.
Nah more like the fake scenes were better than the real ones and that confuses people that go see a fakecumentary
The movie business has become pretty transparent about being more business than art, and as such is not an art I really value at all anymore.
I'll go see space movies & James Bond on an IMAX screen, but because I love space and bond themselves, and the large format greatly enhances that experience. Otherwise, wasting more hours of my life sitting through the endless parade of repetitive formulaic focus-group shlock the industry churns out, in a sticky theatre filled with advertisements and noisy inconsiderate people is not anything I'd pay money for.
iMax ought to start producing more interesting sci-fi & epics on their own with independent filmmakers, so once the old studios finally bite the dust, they'll still have a quality product and distribution model worth spending quality $ on.
I'll go see space movies & James Bond on an IMAX screen, but because I love space and bond themselves, and the large format greatly enhances that experience. Otherwise, wasting more hours of my life sitting through the endless parade of repetitive formulaic focus-group shlock the industry churns out, in a sticky theatre filled with advertisements and noisy inconsiderate people is not anything I'd pay money for.
iMax ought to start producing more interesting sci-fi & epics on their own with independent filmmakers, so once the old studios finally bite the dust, they'll still have a quality product and distribution model worth spending quality $ on.
So only Hollywood CGI laden special effect movies like X-Men 10 and Avengers 6 are suited for the big screen? Seriously?
This movie is a lot like Titanic. Not the movie. The ship.
And... it could be the marketing idea of dropping it in a few theatres was decided on because internal reviews were not so good. The logical conclusion then would be to drop broad release and try and build interest and great reviews with a select showing. This would be my bet and not even clever marketing could save this.
Given the extent of misrepresentation in the movie I'm personally happy to see this thing tank.
I think many tech people would be more interested in the story of the Apple tech people who actually came up with the stuff that Jobs sold.
As fun as it is, I don't care much about the P.T. Barnum style salesmanship story of Jobs, who had nearly zero technical skills of his own. That's the kind of story that MBAs and non-engineers like.
For myself, I'd like to know about the unsung real engineering heroes who never got credit. I want to know about whomever actually came up with the multi-touch keyboard that made Jobs want to sell a touch phone. I want to see the stories of those who labored under ridiculous pressure and did something great.
The best story articles out there even now are about those people. Like the story of the engineers who passed a flask around during the first iPhone demo, taking a swig each time a major demo worked. Who finally got to tell their families why they hadn't been around for so long (due to Jobs' intense desire for secrecy to make his demo more exciting).
A movie about Jobs is like a movie about a popular general. A movie about the wizards who made it all happen, is like a movie about the behind-the-scene people at the OSS or Bletchley Park.
Weird that first you say the above to someone, then turn around and say this in response to the idea of a movie about the actual geniuses behind Jobs:
So only Sorkin movies about CEOs who take the limelight are suited for the big screen? Seriously?
Yes ! They moved it from Trocadero to the east of Paris, in a bigger ( and very nice ) place . I haven't been in the screening rooms yet, but I've been there for some of their expositions ( they has a fantastic Kubrick exposition sometimes ago, that was shown around the world )
Well, movies are always "fake". Everything you see is staged. Otherwise they would be called documentaries or news reports.
But that's only because you're not getting the goods. There are plenty of fantastic films made around the world, but 95% of them never get distributed and shown in North America. It's the chicken and egg thing : Distributors don't show these films in North America because they consider the audience as not open to anything else than movies where things blow up every 10 seconds, or comedies with Adam Sandler / Jennifer Aniston. But then again, if people are not exposed to anything else than those movies, how do you expect them to develop a taste for different aesthetics ?
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I find that IMAX and 3D (all variants I have experienced) are an attempt at 'upping the price' and lack any real valuable addition to even the CG-heavy movies. Well, that and selling accessories (although I think a barf bag should be provided for free).
You're not viewing the right films. Besides, there is Hollywood Industrial entertainment, and then there are independent and foreign film. My preference is for the latter. At times, you will have some crossover.
When it comes to the new Star Wars film, I will be going for the standard flat 2D version. I didn't see the original trilogy in 3D, there's no reason I need to see this one that way either.
Oops, I thought that this one (the current noise about a Jobs movie) was that one. Have there been more than two?
I admired Jobs as a figurehead etc. but I don't have any urge to watch modern dramatisations. Watching some of the old footage of the real person is dramatic enough.
This should have never been made a movie, may be a TV documentary but never a movie.
Why would 99% of the movie going public want to watch this movie.
Why would 99% of the movie going public want to watch this movie.
Did any/all of you speak with each other, at the time, about the film and/or low attendance? Or did the low turnout leave you lost for words? Just curious.
If I had been there I would have probably raised an eyebrow and smiled at fellow viewers, but not plucked up the courage to comment on the attendance. One of them might have been a fiercely avid fan or something …
To be honest, now I want to see it, at the cinema, it's like, what's there to lose? I might intentionally dress really, really badly for my own entertainment. In fact, dressing up might encourage a friend or two to join me …
I was with my wife, so I guess technically that means that there were seven people in the cinema. Others chuckled at the availability of seating. We didn't converse before or after. I did, however, spread out quite obscenely given the room available to me.