Forum - View topicHollywood Alita: Battle Angel Film Tracks to Earn US$50 Million at U.S. Box Office
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unready
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If movie theaters aren't booking it, either fewer theaters or fewer showings, that means they think it won't do well. In the meantime, since movie theaters aren't booking it, it also means people are going to have a hard time finding someplace to see it. Sure, fans will track it down wherever it is, but general audiences out for the night deciding what to see after they get to the theater aren't going to have it as an option and may not even know it exists. |
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FLCLGainax
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I'm curious to see how the turnout is at my theater.
Even if no sequels are made, it's satisfying that this movie got completed and released at all. |
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7jaws7
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Don’t worry, the Chinese will bail us out financially like they always do.
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Furuzaki
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But "clueless" is appropriate, since it's mostly speculation and guessing. A movie critic can hate a movie that commoners love. |
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TexZero
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Don't forget that it had an Initial US release window of Summer 2018. It's first published cinematic trailers had it being released in July. It was delayed not once, but twice by fox for various reasons. |
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EricJ2
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He's had it about as long as Francis Coppola reportedly had "Mai the Psychic Girl" (which also hasn't had an anime in all those years, AFAIK) Which, in both cases, suggests a pet project by directors who thought they were the first Americans ever to set foot on the new storytelling frontier of Japanese manga, which, back in the early-80's, they probably were. And nothing destroys a director more surely than Stubbornness, as those waiting for Cameron's Avatar II will vouch. (I'm not, but I keep hearing about people out there who do.)
Booking engagements used to be the practice back when theaters were still independently operated-- But after the chain cineplex took over theaters in the 90's, we're at the stage now where everything opens, and "booking" is only a question of whether it gets one screen or four. Like "The Kid Who Would be King", this would be one of your One-Screens, and watched carefully to see whether it even keeps that. |
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Agent355
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The real death knell was how many times its release was delayed. That's always a bad sign, even if it did get a better release period than February.
That said, Christmas is in no way a "dump" period. Even people who are too religious or family oriented to go on Christmas itself might go while they are off from school/work in that spending spree vacation period between Christmas and New Year's. Aquaman, somehow, made tons of money, and the latest Star Wars movies were Christmastime releases. |
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unready
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The real death knell would have been if the distributor didn't screen it for critics before the wide release. The delays were only about Cameron procrastinating until the rights to make a movie had almost lapsed. Since he's also the screenwriter, it would make me worry about the quality of the screenplay. Most of the negative critical reviews are about the story itself, though, which is supposedly fairly faithful to the original source material. We'll see in a month how it performed the first few weeks. Maybe it'll be the biggest budget sleeper hit of the decade. |
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Dracospirit121
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Trailer uses the heart scene, easy the weakest scene in the movie tbh. I rather enjoyed the movie in general, the cyborgs were well done and the fight scenes were very alive. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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samuelp
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Pacific Rim is pretty clear cut, and I think a good argument could be made for the last few transformer's movies even. |
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unready
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Google is your friend. This is not a definitive list, of course. Baywatch (2017) Production budget: $69 million U.S. Box Office: $58 million International Box Office: $119.8 million Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Production budget: $150 million U.S. Box Office: $91.8 million International Box Office: $167.2 million Geostorm (2017) Production budget: $120 million U.S. Box Office: $33.7 million International Box Office: $179.2million The Mummy (2017) Production budget: $125 million U.S. Box Office: $80.2 million International Box Office: $329 million Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) Production budget: $60 million U.S. Box Office: $45 million International Box Office: $152.2 million Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) Production budget: $177.2 million U.S. Box Office: $41.2 million International Box Office: $184.7 million xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2017) Production budget: $85 million U.S. Box Office: $44.9 million International Box Office: $301.2 million The Great Wall (2016) Production budget: $150 million U.S. Box Office: $45.5 million International Box Office: $289.4 million Noah (2014) Production budget: $125 million U.S. Box Office: $101.2 million International Box Office: $261.4 million After Earth (2013) Production budget: $130 million U.S. Box Office: $60.5 million International Box Office: $183.3 million A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) Production budget: $92 million U.S. Box Office: $67.3 million International Box Office: $237.3 million Pacific Rim (2013) Production budget: $190 million U.S. Box Office: $101.8 million International Box Office: $309.2 million Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Production budget: $250 million U.S. Box Office: $241.1 million International Box Office: $804.6 million Jumper (2008) Production budget: $85 million U.S. Box Office: $80.2 million International Box Office: $142.1 million The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) Production budget: $145 million U.S. Box Office: $102.5 million International Box Office: $298.6 million The Foreigner (2007) Production budget: $35 million U.S. Box Office: $34.4 million International Box Office: $107.5 million The Golden Compass (2007) Production budget: $180 million U.S. Box Office: $70.1 million International Box Office: $302.1 million Troy (2004) Production budget: $175 million U.S. Box Office: $133.4 million International Box Office: $364 million |
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Agent355
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I'm talking about how the release date was pushed off twice after the movie was completed, which is usually a sign that the production company doesn't have faith in the film. You're right that not screening it for critics would be an even worse indication that they thought the movie sucked. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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EricJ2
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Back before 2002--when studios just found out that more parents go to the movies during Christmas->New Year's week when the kids are out of school--opening a movie on Christmas Day had only ONE purpose: To open "Invisibly" under the radar, during the week the press critics were on vacation, and sneak in a quick week of business before word of mouth got out. Last year, it was "Downsizing", this year...."Holmes & Watson". 'Nuff said. 
It was sort of confusing this year, since usually the second week of December is the "Weekend of Death", now recognized as one of the lowest-grossing weekends of the year (that's what happens when you put theaters in shopping malls that no one wants to go near during shopping season), but "Into the Spiderverse" turned out to get a bit of a fan-rally audience instead...Shame about "Mortal Engines", though. Usually the third week in December is "Avatar Week", one of the most sought-after weekends for big blockbusters--And that's when we usually get Star Wars, or The Hobbit Trilogy, or other movies that appeal to teens with their own cars and money, who don't have to worry about whether Mom wants to drive to the mall. This year, Christmas was on a Tuesday, so Avatar Week and Christmas-Day Dump had to do double-duty on the same weekend, and it was hard telling which one Aquaman and Bumblebee were intended for. I think we know which one Fox intended Alita for. |
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