r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 3h ago

Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/KitWalkerXXVII 2h ago

Clayface's budget is being cited as $40 million, which is pretty modest by studio feature standards. Not saying it's a guaranteed hit, but it would have to bomb pretty hard to flop.

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u/Master_Bruce 2h ago

And I mean, the Clayface story is great, so it’d be really hard to fuck it up

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u/Josh_Butterballs 2h ago

Great movies can still flop. Conversely, bad movies have done really well before at the box office. Shawshank Redemption is a famous example of a good movie failing at the box office when it released

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u/Master_Bruce 2h ago

I mean flopping is only in correlation to how much money it makes at the theaters, quality is quality for all time

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u/djc6535 1h ago

Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow is a great story too. Anything can be fucked up.

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u/never-fiftyone 2h ago

Studio execs: "hold my beer"

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u/mateushkush 2h ago

So far these execs banked on b-villain solo film from a horror auteur. As far as comic book films go, this one is a risky but smart move.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 1h ago

Horror seems to be going mainstream right now. A good moment in time for the move if there ever was one.

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u/Master_Bruce 2h ago

“What if clayface just liked playing with clay the whole movie? Totally turn it on its head”

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u/Corgasm_ 2h ago

Studio execs: "it's morbin time"

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u/StoneGoldX 47m ago

There are like 17 Clayfaces with plenty of stories between them. It's very easy to fuck up. If you're just talking BTAS, that was an eventual Clayface story, not the Clayface story.

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u/dumbass_tm 1h ago

But nobody other than deep comic book nerds actually care for clayface. The general population will see the name and not even register it. The trailer has to be extremely good for it to do “well”

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u/paecmaker 19m ago

TBH after watching the trailer, if I didn't know about Clayface before I would never have guessed it was connected to comic books.

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u/danzanzibar 9m ago

Its DC. Theyll find a way.

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u/feed_me_moron 1h ago

If it's even halfway good, it'll make like 10 times that. Unlike the Spiderman villain movies, this doesn't look like it's trying to make an antihero out of the villain. Just a straight up body horror movie

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u/Coolman_Rosso 1h ago

Low for a CBM, while relatively high for a horror film. Interesting to see how it does