#longlegs

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Essays

The Opening-Weekend Model Is Broken and Nobody Wants to Say It

Hollywood's opening-weekend-dominant distribution model was built for a specific marketplace that no longer exists. An essay on what has broken, which films are succeeding despite it, and what a replacement would look like.

Marcus Vell·30 Jul·7 min

Film

Longlegs: What Perkins Was Really Doing

A year after Longlegs' extraordinary marketing run turned into an extraordinary opening weekend, the film looks smaller than the hype suggested and stranger than the backlash allowed.

Marcus Vell·28 Jul·5 min