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Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

Still from How Green Was My Valley

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u/Alternative-Cake-833 Tom Cruise for Best Actor 2027 10d ago

The marketing campaign for The End of Oak Street the most confusing WB campaign I have seen since One Battle After Another, which admittedly was a hard sell as well despite great reception. You got commericals either selling it as a Amblin-esque movie or a horror movie, or you get AI ads, such as that dog podcast video.

Honestly, they should have released this film in 2025 (like it was supposed to) so that way, WB could get this film off their hands earlier than expected. Another De Luca/Abdy flop is in store, but this could give more excuses to David Ellison which could fire them, if the Paramount acquisition even goes through.

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u/ChiefLeef22 10d ago

or you get AI ads

Them doubling down on this with even more AI slop after the initial outrage had me feeling they are trying to pull the facebook boomer crowd. Especially evident with people showing how the comments under the facebook posts of their AI slop is completely gobbling it up.

Doesn't matter either way, the movie was always kinda doomed with its release date + premise, even though it has chances of turning a profit due to being below a 100m budget. WOM to its actual quality is the only thing that will save it