Pacific Rim

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Can't believe reviews for this are still embargoed? You would think WB would want to get the word out early its a good flick. If you read between the lines on some of the tweets, you can tell the geeks were ecstatic about it, yet can't publish their full reviews yet. WTF WB?

They did the same thing for Man of Steel.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

They did the same thing for Man of Steel.

Yea, but that was an already established property and awareness was high. This, not so much.....

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Yea, but that was an already established property and awareness was high. This, not so much.....

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

Yea, I hope it does too. I'd hate to see this flop, but who's knows? I think it has limited family, older adults and female appeal. My son and I are excited for it though.....

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It's a marketing approach. They're backloading everything. It looks like they believe that the kind of people who are going to see a movie like this have already decided that they will, so they don't have anything to gain with that core group. And the wider moviegoing audience tends to be the kind of people that won't decide what they're seeing next week until the time comes. So they try to get them excited next week. It seems to have worked with MoS (went over 280 million domestic this weekend despite the love/hate reception from critics). We'll see if it works for Pacific Rim.

I hope it does, because I'd like to see more original concepts...

I think this film will do surprisingly well, at least this weekend. And I think "Grown Ups 2" is going to go directly into the shitter.

"Pacific Rim" has no sci-fi OR action/adventure competition at the moment, since "Lone Ranger" tanked. With kids' films currently ruling the B.O. ("Monsters U.", "Despicable Me 2"), the adults who haven't seen anything since "Man Of Steel" and "Iron Man 3" will come out for this film.

"Grown Ups 2", on the other hand, will suffer from following other comedies these past weeks which have done well ("The Heat", "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain", "This Is The End").

Next week is a different story, though. "Pacific Rim", in its second week out, will face stiff competition across the board: an action-adventure ("Red 2"), a sci-fi film ("R.I.P.D."), a horror film ("The Conjuring"), and another kids' film ("Turbo"). That will suck a lot of audience away, especially "R.I.P.D.", so how far "Pacific Rim" drops will be a true indicator of how well it's going to do overall.

I have no idea what the production budget was, though. They seem to be keeping that hush-hush for the moment. If the thing had a bloated production budget it might have a problem recouping. I think a disappointing take would be $100M, a realistic take would be $200M, and a good take would be $250M. Again, though, like "Man Of Steel" and "STID", the overseas haul will make quite a difference and this film has great overseas potential.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by JD10367

I think this film will do surprisingly well, at least this weekend. And I think "Grown Ups 2" is going to go directly into the shitter.

Grown Ups 1 was a pretty big hit. I suspect it will open well. Although, the last few Sandler films have not done well.
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[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Grown Ups 1 was a pretty big hit. I suspect it will open well. Although, the last few Sandler films have not done well.
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It's been a long time since an Adam Sandler movie was any good. I think the last flick of his i somewhat liked was Click.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

It's been a long time since an Adam Sandler movie was any good. I think the last flick of his i somewhat liked was Click.

Depends on what you mean by good? Most of his movies are pretty shoddily made as movies. But they are funny, most of them. But comedy is highly subjective
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[Fish]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

It's been a long time since an Adam Sandler movie was any good. I think the last flick of his i somewhat liked was Click.

Does Hotel Transylvania count? Sandler voiced the lead and was also an exec producer. And I thought that movie was very good.