[HPFGU-Movie] Is WB desperate?

[Child of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Cat
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 11:18 AM
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Is WB desperate?

Is it my imagination or does anyone smell the reek of WB desperation? The
Publicity department is working overtime (more than previous HP movies?) ...
there have been an avalanche of interviews, contests, and promos (print &
TV)lately ... LOTS of promotional activity meant to rejuvinate interest in
HBP. 

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I noticed too, that they are spending a lot of money on a film that should
have a  built-in $400,000,000 + audience. My best guesses, it’s been 2 years
since OOTP, the prior largest gap was 18 months. It’s been 2 years since the
last book, with no more to come. OOTP had the DH bump, they both came out on
top of each other raising the Pottermania. Also, they screwed and pissed off
fans and they know damned well there’s opening-weekend boycott groups and
they want to entice people to opening weekend. They are also, no doubt,
hoping that the unimaginable PG rating (how is this tamer than the last
three, the book was the darkest, most violent and let’s not forget all the
sexual innuendo) I’m thinking they are hoping parents feel more comfortable
bringing smaller kids the first time rather than seeing it themselves first.

Also, WB has not had the year it had last year by any stretch and Watchmen
wasn’t the ½ billion dollar smash they had hoped for, so the entire year is
riding on HBP. We are seeing it twice the second and third week it’s out,
the first is just my wife and I so we can actually watch the film. We bring
the kids to the second one so the constant distraction of divvying out candy
and popcorn and constant bathroom trips don’t ruin it for us.

 

md



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