[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Prince delayed

[mugg1eb0rn at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/14/2008 9:19:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jade76_2000 at yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 

Yep....Harry Potter 6 is going to suffer. New films slated for Summer  2009:

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
X-Men:  Origins
Terminator: Salvation
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Star  Trek
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

Kicking this up against cartoons and  comics and movie classics is just plain 
wrong. The comics this summer pretty  much dominated it: Iron Man, Hulk, Dark 
Knight. It's plain to see how next  year's competition will be. I think this 
is a big  mistake.

Jade







jamelia says:
 
It doesn't have anything at all to do with the type of movie competition  
over the long term, it has to do with competition on the weekend of release. And  
that's what shouldn't be a problem that weekend next July.
 
In the past couple of years, the movie business has really been all about  
opening weekend. If a movie doesn't pull in really huge numbers that first  
weekend, it's considered something of a failure. Personally, I think it's nuts.  
The biggest movies rake in cash for a fair amount of time from repeat ticket  
buyers. Since I'm not a movie executive, however, my opinion doesn't mean much. 
 
Sometimes two big or similar movies open on the same weekend. Usually, one  
of them suffers. When two very dissimilar movies open on the same weekend, this 
 may not happen. An example from this summer was the release of "The Dark 
Knight"  and "Mamma Mia!" on the same weekend. Since they drew two different 
types of  audiences, both movies did extremely well. 
 
Because of the long Writer's Strike, there aren't enough "blockbuster"  
movies to open every weekend next summer, apparently. The big special  
effects-laden movies for 2009 were the ones most affected by the  strike, because their 
scripts had to be ready to start filming early enough for  principal photography 
to be completed and the special effects completed for the  release. Harry 
Potter isn't the same as Transformers in that sense...but it  certainly has its 
share of special effects, and it's a major movie release. When  you consider 
how many millions of dollars the Potter movies cost to make and to  market. I 
can't really blame them too much for trying to get the most  favorable opening 
date. (It used to be said that the amount of money spent  to market a movie was 
as much as to make it! I'm not sure that's still true, but  it's many 
millions of dollars/pounds/euros anyway).
 
In another year, I would be extremely suspicious that problems with the  
movie was the real reason for the delay. This year, I think I can believe them,  
and maybe forgive them for the wait--as long as they don't delay the Deathly  
Hallows movies, as they've promised in the story. 
 
And yes, movie release dates are changed all the time, sometimes because  
there are problems, but other times in order to jockey for a better release  time 
for economic reasons...sometimes they're even pushed to a sooner date, if  
the movie can be finished on time.Some of those movies cited above might end up  
being delayed because of productions problems themselves (Shia LeBeouf's car  
accident and its repercussions, for example, could interfere with 
Transformers  II.)
 
jamelia
 
 
 
 
 



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