Lionsgate licensed Black widow from Marvel in 2004. It hired David Hayter to write a script and Avi Arad to direct it that year before passing on the project in 2006.

Scarlett Johansson was hired to appear as Black widow in Iron Man 2 in 2009.

In 2010, Kevin Feige told interviewers that he had "discussed" a solo Black widow film with Johansson.

Feige reiterated that he wanted to make a solo film featuring the character in a 2014 interview. He also said that he'd comissioned a treatment from Nicole Perlman (who wrote the first draft of Guardians of the galaxy 1 and Captain Marvel).

Lots of creatives pitched ideas for the project. Worth a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_(2021_film)#Production

Ok?

We probably would have gotten a solo film about the character if Disney hadn't left Ike Perlmutter in charge of Marvel. Perlmutter - a comitted racist - didn't believe audiences would show up for a female super hero movie:

https://time.com/3847432/marvel-ceo-leaked-email/

He was wrong, in principle: people fucking love super hero movies.

>Lucy

Lucy was produced by a consortium of European production companies who believed in Johansson's ability to lead a film.

Johansson's agents probably used Lucy's performance as part of their negotiation for her salary for Black widow.

Your cohort has invented a crisis that does not exist.

The vast majority of movies are made by men, about men, for men.

Lodge 49

Seconding u/Livebyyourwits’ suggestion that it takes place in Nurassic Park, adding that Adam Driver dies in the first reel and it’s really about the kid.

Don't show them Radio flyer.

If we're thinking about child-eating women, don't forget Coraline.

If we're thinking about witches, don't forget Paranorman.

Boxtrolls is also great - but problematically spooky.

I don't know what that means.

Here's a scene from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiC54FkzlHU

The movie is streaming on HBO Max:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-witches-1990

The original Witches.

>Something Wicked This Way Comes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11f0iZodKiY

>Watcher in the Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBjx8IyJFyQ

>So, you suddenly find yourself with the ability to remake reality

I give Jim Gavin whatever he needs to finish Lodge 49.

Yep:

https://vimeo.com/15147706

Have you seen the short film based on the story?

For a window of time Sony lost an extraordinarily large amount of money airing original content on PSN.

Sort of.

They definitely stopped producing content for it.

>I know that Sony owns Crunchyroll--which only caters to one genre, and technically there's the free Crackle service

Sony sold Crackle.

But it also runs PlayStation network.

That’s 2 streaming services.

>But not sure if he acted before (in tv)

He had.

> Do you have other samples or favorites?

I would say 99% of child actors are terrible, but sometimes we are graced by a child who can act - Tatum O’Neil’s performance in Paper moon comes to mind.

It is considerably harder to think through this for adult actors, who are either grown up child actors (like Bale) or who made it big after a slate of small appearances (like many of the answers in this thread).

The Mothman Prophecies

No one says this:

>4x to 5x their production costs to break even

You are wrong.

> Movies need to make around 4x to 5x their production costs to break even, let alone show a profit.

No.

> we asked too much of the audience

Hey Pete Docter - the audience wasn’t too stupid to “get” your shitty movie.

Phase 4’s theatrical releases averaged $214 million to produce and grossed an average of $815 million each - $630 million if we don’t count Spider-Man.

That’s amazing.

Disney can’t combine Hulu into Disney+ without resolving Comcast’s stake.

Disney's $3 billion cut into Marvel programming seems more significant.

I'm no sure if you misunderstood the question or don't know where you're posting.

Good luck.

>some obscure channel

Random wikipedia links aside, television networks still produce children's programming.