Men In Black: International

[Deck Rickard]

So whatever happened to Linda Fiorentino anyways?

I don't know but I always assumed it was just the typical "out with the old, in with the new" approach Hollywood took to female love interests in action franchises back then (see: Batman, Bond, Indiana Jones, etc.).

EDIT: If you meant what happened to Fiorentino career-wise... she apparently didn't act between 2002 and 2009, and then this happened:

Involvement in Anthony Pellicano case
In 2009, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Mark T. Rossini pleaded guilty to illegally accessing FBI computers during the prosecution of Los Angeles private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Law enforcement officials said Fiorentino previously had a relationship with Pellicano and wanted to assist his defense.[12] According to prosecutors, Fiorentino was now dating Rossini, and told him she was researching a screenplay based on the case. He conducted searches of government computers for information related to the Pellicano case and passed the results to Fiorentino,[13] who then handed the files over to Pellicano's lawyers in a failed effort to help her earlier boyfriend avoid a 15-year prison sentence.[12]


She hasn't appeared in anything since. I'm kinda surprised she didn't get any jail time for that.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Apparently she was very difficult to work with circa that late 90s period.

Kevin Smith recounted how awful she was to work with during Dogma.

 

[HammerDown]

MIB: International

DOM: 65M
WW: 154M
Total: 219M

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Will it cross 250 ww?

 

[samsnee]

Probably not

 

[Deck Rickard]

Apparently she was very difficult to work with circa that late 90s period.

Kevin Smith recounted how awful she was to work with during Dogma.

I just looked up the Kevin Smith thing; all I could find was at one point he said that Janeane Garafolo was originally set to play the lead and he thought the movie would have been better if she had. He said after his heart attack that Linda had called him and he apologized for saying that and that it was an A-hole thing for him to say. Maybe there's more to it but it sounds like he just said something crude about her and regretted it later.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I just looked up the Kevin Smith thing; all I could find was at one point he said that Janeane Garafolo was originally set to play the lead and he thought the movie would have been better if she had. He said after his heart attack that Linda had called him and he apologized for saying that and that it was an A-hole thing for him to say. Maybe there's more to it but it sounds like he just said something crude about her and regretted it later.

From Kevin Smith at the time...

“The biggest pain in the arse I ever worked with… Linda Fiorentino. When we were making Dogma, the cast was working in a favoured nations type of affair where everyone was getting paid the same – scale, which is the minimum wage for the movie business. And we were all trapped out in Pittsburgh shooting this movie, which is the middle of nowhere, so whenever people had a few days off they would ask if they could go to New York, or back to Los Angeles, or elsewhere. I always said “sure”, because why would I want to make anybody sit in Pittsburgh if they’ve got something else to do?

Linda, on the other hand, had to work every day on the movie because she was in every scene, so she really never got to leave and she got irritated when cast members would go elsewhere. She got really angry about that and asked me to do something about it. And I said, “What am I supposed to do? I mean, they want to go away and they’re not working, so that’s fine.” And one day she stopped talking to me for a whole day, because she was so irritated by the fact that other people got to leave the set. That was kind of weird. The weirdest experience I had making a movie.”

And

“Linda created crisis and trauma and anguish. She created drama while we were making a comedy. She was ticked off that there were other people in the movie who were more famous than she was.”

“She saw the poster and went nuts. They put her head on another body because she never did a photo shoot. The body had more cleavage than she has and she was pissed that nobody approved it with her, so she refused to do any more press. It’s not like we were hinging on all that Fiorentino press — I fought to cast the woman in the movie.“

What the Hell Happened to Linda Fiorentino? - Lebeau's Le Blog

 

[Hunter Rider]

Sad that it bombed as I like the leads, I'll still check it out at some point.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Speaking of Kevin Smith movies.....whatever happened to Joey Lauren Adams anyways?

 

[HammerDown]

DOM: 71M
Foreign: 172M
WW: 244M

Someone said this wasn't going to make more than Dark Phoenix(245M). Well it will.

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[writer0327]

I'm aiming to finally see this tonight. Hoping it will be as bad as everyone says.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Hopefully it cracks 250 million.

 

[dark_b]

Marvel Money: How Six Avengers Made $340 Million Last Year
Chris Hemsworth (a.k.a. Thor) at No. 24 overall with $76.4 million

short filming schedule and a big paycheck. yeah he doesnt care that this bombed and he is happy that his agent negotiated the big money.

 

[Schlosser85]

He might care if he wants to have prospects of any box office success beyond playing Thor.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Obviously he cares or he wouldn’t have signed onto this in the first place.

 

[samsnee]

 

[samsnee]

Marvel Money: How Six Avengers Made $340 Million Last Year
Chris Hemsworth (a.k.a. Thor) at No. 24 overall with $76.4 million

short filming schedule and a big paycheck. yeah he doesnt care that this bombed and he is happy that his agent negotiated the big money.

I'm shocked Hemsworth made more than RDJ.

 

[Teelie]

Not too surprising when you think about it like this: Hemsworth is still young compared to RDJ who has ended his run with the franchise and Hemsworth's Thor still has a lot of potential future films to be in, especially if they go the Asguardians of the Galaxy route.

Besides that, "Chris Hemsworth (a.k.a. Thor) at No. 24 overall with $76.4 million (not all of his earnings were from Avengers)." He got some of that from other movies. RDJ still earned more from this one movie than Hemsworth did.

 

[psylockolussus]

The box office numbers are dreadful. But I expected it to earn half of Mib3's box office. People aren't just interested in a MiB reboot or a MiB film without Will Smith. This is another addition to the long list of unnecessary reboots/relaunch of a film franchise.

 

[-JKR-]

To be fair, I'm happy that Robert Downey jr is done with the MCU. When he was cast as Iron Man I was happy not only because he was a great choice, but also because I thought it meant seeing him in many new roles. And "Tropic Thunder" being released right after "Iron Man" was a good sign, same with "Sherlock Holmes" the following year. After that he didn't do much else, aside from a cameo in Jon Favreau's (underrated) "Chef" and that lawyer film he also produced.
As Chris Hemsworth taking on "Men in Black," I can see both the commercial and artistic appeal, as he loves doing comedy, but to be fair I just don't think things went down how they were supposed to on this project, and from the very first trailer this just looked like a carbon copy of the old films, without any of Barry Sonnenfeld's charm.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Downey also has more range than Hemsworth. He started in 80s comedies and 90s indie dramas. He’s been nominated twice for an Oscar. At this point, he doesn’t have much more to prove. I mean, look at the range of movies he’s made in the past 30 years despite a point where studios weren’t hiring him because of his drug habit.

Doctor Dolittle will be the test if Sherlock Holmes wasn’t a box office fluke outside the MCU, but he’ll always score roles because he’s an incredible actor. There’s no telling if Hemsworth’s career will take him another 20 years still the lead star of movies.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Tom Rothman

I think the truth of the matter is the audience really liked that film and the cast was wonderful, Tessa [Thompson] and Chris [Hemsworth] were great and did a terrific job, but if we made any mistake, I think it probably was that there was not a strong enough idea in the story. Especially when you compare that to, say, "Jumanji," which had a very, very strong idea. So the lesson of it is we have a pretty darn good batting average around here, but you are never going to bat 1.000, and you need to continue to take risks. But you have to try to manage risk. In the case of "Men in Black," we had two cofinanciers on that movie and that manages the risk. I really do believe you cannot eliminate risk in the movie business. If you try to eliminate risk, you will eliminate creativity, and if you eliminate creativity, you will eliminate success.
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I don't know the answer to that because we're not done yet with that movie. That movie is still in theaters, playing out in the rest of the world, so ask me that question after ancillaries — after we go out in digital and DVD. I mean, we are making "Zombieland 2" right now, the audience is crazy for that. But if you asked whoever was in my job a few weeks after the theatrical of "Zombieland" whether you're going to make another one, they would have you hauled off to the loony bin. But it has taken on a great life. So "Men in Black" remains a very important asset that the company owns, and I would be very surprised if that is the last movie.

Sony movie boss Tom Rothman explains why he bet big on Quentin Tarantino's new movie and sets the record straight about a rumored deal term

The Zombieland example is weird since that film cost only 23 M at the time and scored a 90% on rotten tomatoes.