[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: HP and LOTR

[Beck, Jim]

I think that LOTR will draw well, but not anywhere near the numbers of Harry
Potter.  For one thing the LOTR series has not sold 125 million volumes in
the last 5 years.  Second, LOTR is another long movie, and for a movie of
that length to pack in the admissions it must be shown on a lot of screens
because each screen will not be capable of as many showings.  Thus LOTR
would have to break the HP record of being on nearly one in 4 screens in the
country, which I don't see it doing because of the other movies (including
HP) that are out there.  Third, and probably most important, from the LOTR
preview that I saw before HP, that movie seems a lot more violent and
warlike than HP.  That will turn off a lot of the HP audience -- my
10-year-old daughter remarked that she did not want to see it --
particularly on the younger end of the spectrum.  While LOTR probably makes
up some of that in appeal to adolescent males, that's not the same.  When a
young child wants to see a movie, that means that parents come along for
each child -- increasing the box office by a factor of two or more.
Adolescents OTOH go by themselves.
 
-- Bexis


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