![]() ![]() However, the death of the intermission has actually been much exaggerated: it still survives in Iceland, Switzerland, Egypt, Turkey and, of course, India, where movies contain so many volcanic emotions that a break to let everyone cool off is practically a public health measure. Old-style, sprawling epics parted their productions midway as surely as Charlton Heston did the Red Sea So why not make it official and, once a film tops the 150-minute mark, give us all a break? ![]() Elongated runtimes have become so common that many franchises, such as Avengers, The Hobbit and It, started breaking up unified stories into multiple parts anyway – effectively enforcing months-long intermissions. But, with more franchises than ever happy to take their sweet time, the intermission would be a welcome opportunity to hit the WC, as well as loosen the legs and buttocks and avail ourselves of refreshments, while musing with fellow cinemagoers on the semantics of grunge in The Batman. It feels like a relic of a more civilised epoch. Given that it joins No Time to Die (163 minutes) and Avengers Endgame (181 minutes) in the ranks of recent blockbusters dicing with the bladder-busting three-hour limit, is it time we reinstated that staple of another era of maximalist cinema: the intermission? No such easy escape, though, for audiences of The Batman, who must display superhuman willpower and gird their loins for its 176-minute runtime. The film is slated for an April 26 release.A ccording to Robert Pattinson, the most important accessory on the new batsuit was not the batarang, the bat lasso or the bat grapple, but a Velcro flap that allowed him to pee when needed. ![]() ![]() Joe Russo, who will be making a pit stop in India to promote the film in April, said, “This one, in particular, feels like three hours worth of real estate.”Īvengers: Endgame stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and others. Right now, we think the movie is playing well and we’ve had great responses from our test audiences and we’re feeling very good about where it is. In February, the Russos told Collider, “We’re still at the three-hour mark,” adding that “the studio is down with what the best story is. We’ll see if that holds.”Īlso read: Captain Marvel movie review: Brie Larson stars in a feature length trailer for Avengers Endgame I’m sure that we’ll squeeze it.” He continued, “The running time on Avengers 4 is currently sitting right at three hours. Joe Russo had said in an Instagram live chat, “I’ll say it could easily be a three hour film, but I think that we’re very hard on the material, we like it to play at a certain pace. The possibility of adding an intermission - unusual outside India - has also been thrown around. Marvel usually begins screening its films for the press a few weeks ahead of release, but the studio might take the unusual Avengers: Infinity War route with Endgame, holding back on public screenings until the last moment so as to protect secrets.Įver since November, it has been reported that Endgame is flirting with a three-hour runtime. Even though the ‘picture is locked’, last-minute fine-tuning will continue in departments such as sound and VFX. ![]()
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