Dwayne Johnson's "Skyscraper"

I did too.. I think he might failure after few more bombs maybe he will wake up..

 

Havent seen it, but as a joke a friend of mine pulled up the poster for a Die hard Movie .. nearly identical. no hate for the Rock, I actually applaud he and Bautista for rising out of the wwe the way they did..... just saying, if ya didn't know his daughter is VP for the Actor's Guild, you do now.

 

Amen.

 

He gets $50M? Woah.

 

The movie debuted in China with $48 mil, bigger than its two week domestic run.

Sort of. He gets a base pay of $21m + $1m for social media marketing + cut of profits. Unless Skyscraper goes bonkers in China I don't think he'll come away with $50m for that one.

 

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Set in Hong Kong. Asian lead. I guess this is why there are more and more asian actors in films these days -- the Chinese market. It has to be. So much for well-intentioned diversity. Hollywood, I shoulda known.

 

Has anyone done a survey in China about such casting decisions for their market? If a film is set in HK it would be logical to cast people who look like locals no? Do Chinese people going to watch a foreign film expecting to see Asian faces?

 

S'funny, I've never entertained the notion of American movies as 'foreign movies', which of course is what they are outside the U.S. My stereotypical mindset about foreign films has always been that they were to be seen in a smaller artsy kinda theater and that they were produced by and featured people I didn't know. Certainly not the case with U.S. product outside our country!

 

Paul Reubens, from an episode of 30 ROCK.

 

...still don't get it!

 

Sad part is that the[Arnold]couldn't act,and the Rock can.

 

I don't either, but it's funny if you saw that episode! hahaha

 

Arnold was like a joke that got popular. If he had to write down his profession, I'd tell him: "Comedian."

 

Stranger danger!

 

My gut says Johnson will attempt some more "serious" roles down the road - and probably not too far down the road, too.

I think he has stronger acting chops than Schwarzenegger, and Johnson has already tried some more dramatic parts - like his role on "Ballers".

There's nothing in his IMDB listing upcoming that looks outside of his usual action/comedy oeuvre, but I suspect he'll "go dramatic" eventually.

Schwarzenegger eventually attempted more serious parts too, but those came well after his "glory days"...

 

Jeesh guys...a couple of posters said they liked Pee Wee Herman and so help me that was the first image that came to mind. Thank goodness

 

I saw it and thought it was a lot of fun...

Like all the Rock movies.....

 

Jenna is the funniest.

 

Hope you've seen Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix.

 

Ice Plane 267 one over the hill pilot must save 200 passangers from dark cold fate
will Dwayne fail..?One man, one way too die?
Funny thing Ben Stiller made fun of action movies in Tropic Thunder....
kinda like Dwayne is doing..

 

There's been research, not really surveys. They also love Western culture so they tend to not care about whether or not there are Asian faces on the screen when there's a super star, but having recognizable locations and Asian faces doesn't hurt (and can help). Skyscraper was a little obvious with it's setting, random shots of the crowd, and casting Asian stars in supporting roles, though I'm curious if it'll have legs there. Apparently reviews there were also fairly average.

 

Just watched it on Blu-ray. My god... what a bad movie. Words fail me.

 

Agreed, quite possibly the worst movie he's ever been in!