[misc movie q] did _any_ of you know about the new "Fletch" movie?

[danny burstein]

typical comment:

Alan Sepinwall
@sepinwall
Related: did you know there is a new Fletch movie out starring Jon Hamm, Roy
Wood Jr, Kyle MacLachlan, Marcia Gay Harden & other super charming people? That
it is in theaters and on VOD right now? That Hamm & Slattery swap insults in
multiple scenes? Miramax is betting you don't.
......
Ken Goodrich
@KenGoodrich
Replying to
@sepinwall
What is the point of making a movie, paying to cast well-known actors, and then
not promoting that movie?
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@jrs101780
Replying to
@sepinwall
I had no freaking idea this came out. I've been waiting for this ever since
Kevin smith had the rights. What the hell are they doing?
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https://twitter.com/sepinwall/status/1571492000653770752

it's "Confess, Fletch"

Gotta wonder if they included the key plot device
of his checking the Boston Globe and not the NYT,
or maybe the reverse...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confess,_Fletch

Oh, on the plus side, NO Chevy Chase
On the minus side, no Geena Davis.



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[Jim Ellwanger]

Yes, I saw it in a theater today. It’s good. They used fake newspaper names (i.e., not Boston Globe or Los Angeles Times).

[danny burstein]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022, Jim Ellwanger wrote:

> Yes, I saw it in a theater today. Itÿÿs good. They used fake newspaper

> names (i.e., not Boston Globe or Los Angeles Times).

Thanks. I'm going to try to find a theater
that has it and also.. with good ventialtion..

I consider "Confess, Fletch" to be the
best of the novels. The original Fletch
as a close second.

We don't talk about "Carioca Fletch" in
mixed company...

[Jim O'Connell]

I know much of it was shot in Worcester... which is cool.

[Rose Ellen Auerbach]

I've been working in the ticketing world for a while, and the past few months have been a mess of... let's say "interesting" publicity decisions. Paramount is the distributor on this one, and all I can think is that they're just not used to promoting titles with a release pattern like this.

Confess, Fletch is in about 500 theaters nationwide, and probably on the on demand service of your choice. It has an 85% critics' score and 78% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, so it's probably worth your time. (Disclosure: Rotten Tomatoes is owned by the same corporate overlords as my employer.)

--Rose

[Devin Pike]

I’m a MASSIVE fan of the McDonald books, and any time there was movement on the FLETCH front, my Spidey sense tingled. The trailer for CONFESS made me gleeful, and now that I know this is about as loose an adaptation of the book as the first Chase flick was to its source material (no Flynn to speak of, for starters) my expectations are properly set.

As to “why does no one know this movie is happening?” I think the reaction to Paramount’s lack of publicity is doing a solid anti-job (this makes sense in my head, and I swear I’ll figure out how to say it later). Word of mouth will have to do the rest of the work. 

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Pax,

Devin Pike

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[danny burstein]

[snip]

Just watched it. I was the _only_ person in the theatre..

(although, to be sure, it was the 12:15 [first] show
on a weekday..)

A pleasant enough diversion. If you've read
the book you'll be 15 minutes ahead of the plot.

If you haven't, you'll get a bit confused at
the various twists and turns.

Bonus: "The Doctor" (no, not Dr. Who) from Star Trek: Voyager,
helps clean up the mess at the end...

Oh, and while we don't quite have the "Inspector Flynn" character
from the novel, there's "Detective 'Slo-Mo' Monroe", who's a
pretty good substitute.

So yeah, if it's a rainy day and the theater has a good
roof, go forit.