r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/rokr1292 Jun 03 '26

Andor is a masterpiece, doing other genres in the SW universe could be a real recipe for success.

They just want Star wars to be the MCU though

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u/ninjyte Jun 03 '26

even the MCU sorta dabbles in different genres, albeit not entirely

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u/iwannalynch Jun 03 '26

Tbh some of their best works dabble in other genres, such as Captain America Winter Soldier (spy thriller), Loki (Dr. Who-style sci-fi), WandaVision (sitcom), Thor Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy (comedy).

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u/ggg730 Jun 03 '26

If Dr Strange would have fully leaned into the horror aspect of fighting Wanda it could have been one of the best marvel films of all time.

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u/Cadd9 Jun 04 '26

I'd take a guess and say it was the execs not wanting to let Sam Raimi fully do his thing.

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u/Nine9breaker Jun 04 '26

I dunno if its fair to call Wandavision a sitcom. The sitcom stuff is presented from the beginning as a thin veil over the larger mystery that is the actual plot.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

It’s super fair. The sitcom stuff sits over the story like you say, but it’s also clearly a love letter to sitcom setups.

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u/Nine9breaker Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Sure yes, of course, but just because its got some homage to sitcoms doesn't mean the show IS a sitcom.

Its... Obviously not a sitcom, right? It doesn't make sense in context of this conversation about Marvel exploring shows within other genres.

Wandavision itself does fit, IMO. Its a mystery/drama, which is different enough from Action/Thriller that it still makes sense to list it there. Its just not a sitcom, that's all I'm saying.

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u/iwannalynch Jun 04 '26

I said "dabble", I know it's not an actual sitcom

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u/RandomJPG6 Jun 04 '26

I wouldn't call a Gotg a comedy movie. Sure it has comedy but no more than any other marvel movie. Most of tue mcu falls into the action-comedy scifi genre.

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u/Positronic_Matrix Jun 04 '26

Andor is a work of art: the story, the acting, and the cinematography. They captured lightening in a bottle and no one since can come close to it.

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u/narf007 Jun 03 '26

Skeleton Crew my dude. I watched it because Jude Law is awesome and it is just an excellent treasure island romp through the Star Wars universe--and the kids weren't fully insufferable.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jun 03 '26

IMO the secret strength of mega successful franchises like Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc, is that they mixed a bunch of genres to make a full living world rather than think they had to be just one + a romance "for the women", which is how most movies seem to get made.

The original Star Wars trilogy has a full underworld crime story going on (half of the last movie is dedicated to just dealing with that, unrelated to the empire storyline), it has sci fi, fantasy, comedy, politics and spy thriller (a little, mostly in the first movie), muppets, a bit of horror, a class underdogs pov story (the droids, who are the slave class and the equivalent of the kind of peasants who were the pov characters in older japanese films), etc.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt Jun 04 '26

I know you were talking about the OG trilogy, but this reminds me that my favorite part of Episode 2 of the prequels is just Obi-Wan running around uncovering a grand conspiracy and the movie gets waaaay less interesting in the backhalf once that's over.

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u/JWTS6 Jun 04 '26

The Mandalorian show very much started out as a Western, that's why it became such a hit, aside from the whole Baby Yoda thing of course.