The school year is coming to an end. The sun is allegedly on the
horizon. We’re six months into the year 2012 and it’s time to take the
measure of the cinematic offerings we’ve seen so far.
There have been some big flops – Disney apparently wrote off $200
million on John Carter (was I really the only one who enjoyed it?), and
Warner Bros can’t have been too happy with Rock of Ages either. Snow
White and the Huntsman made a lot of money, more than Mirror Mirror at
least, but it cost a mind-boggling $170 million to make (in comparison,
Prometheus is reported to have cost $130 million).
More recently, and controversially, I rate David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
as one of his very best films, a minority opinion at this stage of the
game, but a verdict I’m happy to stand by.
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