Anyone know how much the Weinsteins have chopped out of this?
If it follows the same formula as the first, it'll be a scene here and there - enough to just about make them long enough to be made into standalone chapters like they did with Sin City.
The stories themselves are quite well adhered to, with only a few scenes removed from the original Dame to Kill For book, and almost nothing taken out of the Just Another Saturday Night short story, although it was very sharply edited.
As for the new stuff, I'd be surprised if there wasn't more to Nancy's segment.
To be fair, I don't think that the Weinsteins would have said 'cut X or Y' on this occasion, more like 'make it 100 minutes long or we won't distribute it', not that that's any nicer! And fast cuts have been employed for the most part, ramping up the pace over the first one certainly, even if the film doesn't seem anywhere near as compelling and so, thus, feels longer...
I think the more detrimental effect they had was in delaying the project for so long (because they wouldn't fund it, and would only distribute it) and so poorly marketing it. I get the feeling that they enjoy trampling over films when they don't get their way (Snowpiercer) even if it actually ends up costing them money. Now
that's power.