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New To The Quorum: MICKEY 17

In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s PARASITE was showered  with six Academy Award nominations and walked away with four wins, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film. Bong himself walked away with three statuettes. To this day, PARASITE remains the highest-grossing film for distributor Neon.  How do you follow that up? Audiences have […]

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Grading October Posters

Yikes. It was not a good month for posters. There were no A grades in October. In fact, none of these would have made the top 5 list in September. But it is interesting that fans gave high marks to a variety of titles. There’s a horror film, an animated film, an action thriller, an […]

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ELIO and SNOW WHITE get punted to 2025.

The ongoing SAG strike is beginning to impact the release calendar. Three high-profile projects have just been pushed. Disney has ELIO moved from March 1st, 2024, to June 13th, 2025. That’s probably for the best, as ELIO has struggled to gain traction despite the presence of a teaser trailer and poster. ELIO would have represented […]

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Did Universal Back The Wrong Horse?

The business model is clear. Make the movie for a song and enjoy the upside windfall. That’s the way horror films have been made for decades.  Sure, sometimes budgets climb as high as $50M, but the vast majority are made for next to nothing. The five highest-grossing horror films of 2023 each cost less than […]

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New To The Quorum: THE BEEKEEPER

Take JOHN WICK, swap out some bees for a dog and Jason Statham for Keanu Reeves, and voila, you’ve got THE BEEKEEPER. Ok, that’s not necessarily fair, though Statham’s latest revenge pic shares some of the same DNA as WICK. Regardless, BEEKEEPER looks like a bloody good time. Statham may have had a misfire with […]

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Tracking 103: Survey Schedule

Every Saturday, The Quorum posts the tracking schedule for the week ahead. This is where you can see which films will be surveyed for the coming week. What may need to be clarified is when we begin tracking a film and the survey frequency. As part of our tracking 101 series, let’s explain The Quorum’s […]

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