Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Dick Tracy Jr. himself, Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're going to be talking about a

titan in the industry who hasn't made a movie in almost a decade till now. We're talking about Warren Beatty. Yes, we're doing this podcast to tie into the smash hit new film Rules Don't Apply. I know you've seen it. Justin, you've seen it. No, I haven't. Excuse me, Justin. Everyone in America has seen this movie. I mean, it open on how many screens? Like, like 2,300. And it made, uh, a million dollars, I think it opened at 11th at the box office. Yeah, it made, um, I think, I had a $600 per screen average or something like that. And, uh, when I saw it, my friend and I were the only two people in the theater. And it was opening night. It was opening night. And he said, I did the math, and the per screen average works out to two paying customers at every screening.

So, like, we were doing our part at that screening.

It's funny to consider what the studio executives thought would be the result of making a Warren Beatty starring.

I think he probably wrote it and directed it as well,

right? And like how it would get the audiences in. I guess the people who really liked him in the

70s, the last time he was really relevant in a continual way. Like not just that, it's a Warren

Beatty movie about like Howard Hughes in 50s Hollywood and to just dump that on 2300 screens. It's so weird. Like for some reason it didn't play at TIF. That would have been such an ideal opening night gala or, you know, at the New York Film Festival or something. And it just went right to the screens. Like there was no buzz about it. there were no pre-reviews, nothing. It just

kind of opened. But it was fantastic, though, right? Oh, terrific, yeah. No, it was pretty bad. But what was interesting was seeing Warren Beatty, like, flogging the movie on the press circuit. Warren Beatty, like, like... He appeared on interviews. He was on Jimmy Fallon. He was, He was in Toronto talking to all sorts of people.

And Beatty is one of those guys who for years, you know, never did any interviews.

And... He was on Jimmy Fallon. He was in Toronto talking to all sorts of people. And Bady is one of those guys who for years, you know, never did any interviews. And the other funny thing about rules don't apply is this is a dream project that he had harbored for something like 40 years. For 40 years, he'd wanted to make a Howard Hughes movie. And then finally, here it is. And it's just a light comedy about Howard Hughes being a rascallian guy in the shadow.

It's as tepid as a movie could possibly be and it just, and like nobody cares. There's something really kind of funny, I think, about like these dream project movies, these ones that, you know, people pour their heart and soul into and then nobody cares. Well, I mean, Martin Scorsese is going to come out with silence around Christmas time,

which is another of a 35-year-old dream project.

So we'll see how people react like they did to. Rules Don't Apply. Only time, we'll tell. So Warren Beatty. Oh, I want one more thing about Rules Don't Apply. I love the way Beatty is introduced to the movie because it takes about like 20 or 30 minutes for Beatty to show up.

It's all about like... It's the movie like two hours long?

It's, yeah, two hours and ten minutes or so. And I think it had like 30 minutes cut out of it right before it came out too. But it's, most of it's about this young ingenue in Hollywood who's, you know, been hired by Howard Hughes. Lily Collins is at Howard Hughes's house and this guy like is in the shadows.

He just comes out of the bathroom and you know for the hired by Howard Hughes. Lily Collins is at Howard Hughes's house, and this guy, like, is in the

shadows. He just comes out of the bathroom. And, you know, for the first two minutes he's on

screen, we only see Howard Hughes in shadows. And I love the buildup. It's like, oh, man,

first time in 15 years. Here he is. Warby! Like, it reminded me of the Joker and Batman Batman being like, Jack is dead. You can call me Joker. Now, speaking of Batman, I know you want to get into Dick Tracy. Let's do it. No, I'm going to put a button on it. We're going to get that to the end because that's the fun stuff. Let's talk about Warren Beatty coming up in the industry. Dropping facts on us, Will. I mean, here's what's talk about Warren Beatty coming up in the industry.

Dropping facts on us, Will.

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