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08-23-2009, 03:54 PM | #201 |
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I will see it one last time.
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08-23-2009, 03:55 PM | #202 |
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08-23-2009, 03:56 PM | #203 |
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that coin didnt have any scrapings on it.........did it?
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08-23-2009, 04:02 PM | #204 |
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GI JOE received bad ratings from some fans, movie goers and critics...... that alone can keep an audience away.
With District 9 coming a week later having great reviews and test screenings with audiences raving about it cut into JOES intended market. hence it was not good for it.
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08-23-2009, 04:06 PM | #205 |
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Keep an eye out around mid Sept - that's when it's released in Germany and Italy (and those boys love their action films!)
We'll see another big boost then.
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08-23-2009, 04:11 PM | #206 |
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The thing I had a problem with in the movie.. Is I felt like I was watching Spy Kids. Now there is nothing wrong with Hasbro trying to get younger fan base, but that's not who spends the money on their stuff. Kids don't have the money.. Parents do, and more importantly the collectors (now mostly adults) are the ones investing in their products. So if they want to release a movie for kids.. keep it on DVD and for PSP, and let the GiJoe's get gritty and mature a bit on the big screen!
The movie is the ad that gets the kids to go to their parents and say "BUY ME G.I.JOE!!" Make a movie geared towards only adults, 75% of 'em aren't going to go and buy toys no matter how much they liked the movie. So then Hasbro doesn't end up selling toys and they don't make money. They are a toy company after all. No matter how much money Transformers movies makes, Hasbro can't consider them successes unless the movie's popularity translates into toy sales.
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08-23-2009, 04:25 PM | #207 |
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What's a District 9?
Is it like the Combat Zone in Boston? |
08-23-2009, 04:47 PM | #208 |
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So if D9 dropped 1/2, was 33 opening right, so say 18 (high) for this weekend, total of $51 in 2 weeks, just barely making what RoC made opening weekend.
If you look at it as just box office totals, RoC's a much bigger success then D9. D9 has a slim chance of catching up depending on how long it stays in the theaters As a financial success, D9 obviously has it because it made it's production budget back in the first weekend, where RoC will just barely make it. Kind of interesting. In terms of box office ticket sales (the determining factor of a movies success or not), RoC is a much bigger success then D9. But in terms of book keeping, D9 is the profit maker. Seriously, the movie has not even made a profit yet and its dropping in the box office attendance. D9 is a success...... a movie is not measured solely in terms of how much it made at the box office as it is determined how much of a profit it makes once budget has been taken out. (MI3 is a perfect example of that) All movie (for the lack of a better word) pundits would agree. Let me breakdown the numbers: Movie - Budget - Box office take - After the theaters get their cut - profit ROC - 170 million - 223 million - 167 million - (-)3 million D9 - 30 million- 81 million - 61 Million - (+)30 million So ROC would need to double its budget and bring in an additional 340 million more to be on the same level. That is not going to happen ever. Now in terms of Spin control....yes Roc can boast the numbers to the people that can care less about production budgets and just look at raw numbers but those that are in the know....... know! But that doors swings both ways. Studios are not happy when there films do not bring in at least its budget in domestic sales. ROC did not and a lot of pundits will deem this a failure. Heck it would need to bring in another 50 million for that....It hasn't even caught up to Terminator Salvation if that tells you anything and its at number 16 for the year. Think of it this way, it might and I say MIGHT.......... catch up to Paul Bart mall cop..... but that is with a lot of wishing. |
08-23-2009, 04:53 PM | #209 |
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I want to add that I have seen the film (ROC) 3 times with friends and family and I want this to succeed so fraking bad! I know that if this fails we will not get another film for a long - LONG - time!
Its just not a really good movie and I cant defend that. |
08-23-2009, 05:00 PM | #210 |
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Did ya miss the part where I said that D9 was a financial success?
The people that know, know which was a bigger success. And Joe Average? Which do you think he'd say was bigger? I don't think RoC was the success it could have been, I enjoyed it and I'll probably be seeing it again. When CNN or USA Today or whichever paper runs the top 10 movies of the week with totals made, I don't believe it gives production budget, so to Joe Average which one would come across as the bigger success? Not everyone surfs the internet and becomes someone in the know, so to speak. Alot of the times, I use my mother as an example. She doesn't surf the internet, so if she just looked at the numbers she'd call RoC the bigger success. It's along the lines of the old gauge of how popular Star Wars is, not really popular, but how well known. Ask a random guy on the street corner who Chewbacca is and they'd know, ask 'em who Snake-Eyes is and before RoC they wouldn't know, now there's a better chance, ask 'em who a character from D9 is and would they know? The average person isn't someone in the know.
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