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Thursday, March 9th, 2023 8:58 AM

Live Poll: Annapurna Pictures

​Annapurna Pictures​​ is an American independent media company founded by ​​Megan Ellison​​ in 2011 and based in Los Angeles, California.​

​It is active in film, television and theatrical production, film distribution and video game publishing.​

​Which is your favorite movie produced by ​​Annapurna Pictures​​?​

​https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564984675/​

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1 year ago

FYC,

I wouldn't list Nimona yet, it looks like it is near complete, but they haven't even announced a release date yet. There are also two other titles that are due out by the end if the 2023 year or in early 2024. One of them already had a showing at Sundance two months ago.

IMHO, I would limit yourself to productions or co-productions only, no distribution only films. Also, this uncredited co-production seems suspect to me, like they had little to do with the making of the movie. They might only be acknowledged or in this case not acknowledged for some minor reason, like owning the rights to the source material
Just a thought, this company has had considerable success and likely will in the future. I would save a couple spots for upcoming movies and dump the dogs now that are going to get zero to a handful of votes.

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@urbanemovies​ 

>I wouldn't list Nimona yet, 

I understand, but I guess that by the time this suggestion [ever] goes live, this title will have been released...

https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt6412452/?rf=cons_tt_contact&ref_=cons_tt_contact

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

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@mariojacobs​ I don't have IMDb Pro, so I can't link to that. But, I suspect an accurate poll increases your chances of plublication more than an inaccurate one does. It looks like Annapurna's connection is a Buster Scruggs TV project that never came to fruition and they sold their Buster Scruggs rights to Netflix for them to make their own movie with the Coen brothers.

Which is your favorite movie produced by ​​Annapurna Pictures​​?​

Plus, I don't understand how it can be someone's favorite movie, if no one aside from maybe a test audience and few studio people have seen it. I would guess that they are not going to say its coming out next week. It is probably at least into the fall of 2023 or later before it hits theaters.

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@urbanemovies​ It can take more than a year to this idea to get published... if ever.

I included "or co-produced" in the text.

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@urbanemovies​ This year Col Needham gave to every IMDb top 300 contributor a 1 year free IMDb Pro subscription.

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@mariojacobs​ Congrats, I think that is two years in a row for you. Again, I am not 100% certain about my facts, but I don't think you can be either with contradictory information.

At the very least, I think it is in name only because their contributions were only in the early stages of development to a TV project that never made it on the on-air. It is possible, the credits on IMDb could be a hold-over from when the title was in-development as a TV show and never got removed, when it morphed into a Netflix theatrical movie. I think the scope of your poll suggestion is about movies and their connection was to Buster Scruggs anthology TV series that never aired. Plus, the spirit of the poll suggestion is to movies that they made, Netflix was the force behind the movie here. The connection is tenuous at best, IMHO.

https://www.bustle.com/p/is-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-based-on-a-book-the-coen-brothers-explore-wild-west-storytelling-in-their-latest-project-13117932

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@mariojacobs​ I found a third source that supports 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' as an official Annapurna title, so I was wrong and it should be left on your list. You still need to remove the unreleased 'Nimona' though.

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1 year ago

Phantom Thread is my favorite.

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1 year ago

You still need to remove the not scheduled and unreleased 'Nimona' from the #1 spot of your list.

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@urbanemovies​ done, thanks.

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@mariojacobs​ Thanks, I appreciate the update. IMHO,

Annapurna  makes better films than Skydance.

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1 year ago

FYC, wouldn't Favorite Annapurna Pictures Movie be better for a title?

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@urbanemovies​ the name of the title is the name of the business entreprise.

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@mariojacobs​ Yes, but your poll suggestion isn't a business enterprise.

I would look at a poll title, the same as a newspaper headline, it is intended to grab your attention and make you want to click on the poll to take the survey. A real catchy poll title can double the number of participants over a flat, boring one.

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1 year ago

Congratulations​ @mariojacobs 

Please change "Poll Suggestion" to "Live Poll" in the discussion thread title and change the settings so that it appears under "Praise" now, rather than "Idea."

 

FAQ: Updating Threads After Poll Goes Live

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@urbanemovies​ thanks, I didn't know you were also a poll admin...