STAR TREK XI COMES OUT IN AUSTRALIA BEFORE AMERICA!!!!

[Tulin]

I just checked Greater Union's website for upcoming releases this year and I saw that, once again, because of the Australian deal of movies opening Thursdays, we actually get STXI THE DAY BEFORE the US.

Now, here comes the cool part, if you factor in time differences, somebody could go see STXI at a first session, say of 9:30am Thursday morning on the 7th of May and THAT IS ACTUALLY AROUND 6:30PM ON WEDNESDAY EVENING IN LA!!!!!!!


I LOVE being in the future!!!!!!

 

[Tulin]

Of course, if the release date is pushed back here, I reserve the right to suddenly lose interest.

Truth be told, I don't go to movies on opening day anymore, anyway. Can't stand idiot teenagers texting and treating the movies like a social outing to catch up with the other Ciley Myrus fan club members.

The reason I am happy is for ST fans who, in the past had to wait MONTHS for a new film, while it came and went in the US.

I LOVE that the internet and file sharing has made the greedy bastard distributors and studios up their game and treat almost all markets fairly and equally.

 

[Broccoli]

Truth be told, I don't go to movies on opening day anymore, anyway. Can't stand idiot teenagers texting and treating the movies like a social outing to catch up with the other Ciley Myrus fan club members.

A little off topic, but I totally agree. I went to go see QoS with my dad and I had to get up and tell some dumb ass kids to shut the hell up because I was focused more on their worriment on who is going to homecoming with who than Bond beating the crap out of someone. Of course they looked at me like I was the one who is crazy.

Interestingly enough, this was three weeks after the movie had been released. I bet Twilight was full.

I mean, I was in high school less than ten years ago and I would never think about having long, loud conversations with my friends during a movie.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I LOVE that the internet and file sharing has made the greedy bastard distributors and studios up their game and treat almost all markets fairly and equally.

That's not why.

Marketing departments have always used smaller countries as a gauge for launching onto larger markets. The timeframe has just gotten shorter. The timing is exactly the same as the premiere of Bad Robot's "Cloverfield", which had the first ST teaser trailer. Australia saw it while the US was still in Wednesday and not due to see it till the Friday.

Australia had "Superman II" for months before the US. The studio was worried how it would be received. And here, in Oz, the capital city of Adelaide often used to get TV shows weeks before the rest of the country, giving marketing people time to tweak their campaign about which demographic groups to target.

 

[Tulin]

It's just a different mentality we have than other people. Since I was a kid, I treated "going to the movies" as ranging from a special experience to almost "Holy Experience"(TESB, ROTJ, the ST films of the '80s).

I sat silently, in awe and would NEVER dream of talking loudly and ruining the experience for myself or others.


In these cases, the wisdom of Mama Fratelli always suffices,


"Kids suck".

 

[Tulin]

Well, as I said, Therin, I am NOT happy for ME, since I will NOT be there opening day. You strike me as much more of a hardcore ST fan, so I am actually happy for people like you.

I will be booking Gold Class for maybe the week after and enjoy it in an over 18 setting in comfort and class, away from the annoying kids.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I will be booking Gold Class for maybe the week after and enjoy it in an over 18 setting in comfort and class, away from the annoying kids.

I'm not expecting too many kids at a midnight screening. You were the one proclaiming "I LOVE being in the future!!!!!!" and yet now you won't be taking advantage of it?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I LOVE that the internet and file sharing has made the greedy bastard distributors and studios up their game and treat almost all markets fairly and equally.

That's not why.

Marketing departments have always used smaller countries as a gauge for launching onto larger markets. The timeframe has just gotten shorter. The timing is exactly the same as the premiere of Bad Robot's "Cloverfield", which had the first ST teaser trailer. Australia saw it while the US was still in Wednesday and not due to see it till the Friday.

Australia had "Superman II" for months before the US. The studio was worried how it would be received. And here, in Oz, the capital city of Adelaide often used to get TV shows weeks before the rest of the country, giving marketing people time to tweak their campaign about which demographic groups to target.

What can they do in two days?

 

[Therin of Andor]

What can they do in two days?

Not a lot, but if the film opens in the US first and gets really bad public reaction, then the rest of the world backs off from the movie altogether. Instant international flop, very often.

If it opens in New Zealand and Australia first, even if is gets some bad crits, then what do we know? We're only a small foreign population with weird tastes.

Plenty of time for a bit of spin doctoring for the US market to keep opening weekend figures acceptable.

 

[Tulin]

All I know is that the(later)SW movies(not including TPM)opened in this same way - almost 36 hours before here in Australia, than in the US.

ROTJ opened around 25th of May 1983 in the US but we had to wait until November 17th 1983 here in Australia. Almost six months later!!!


That is UNACCEPTABLE and all I know is that, for whatever reason, films open almost simultaneously in western countries, these days. THAT is SO MUCH better!

 

[donners22]

First Contact was out here before the US, was it not?

I'm planning to go to the premiere at Crown if they have one like they did with Insurrection.

 

[M'Sharak]

I just checked Greater Union's website for upcoming releases this year and I saw that, once again, because of the Australian deal of movies opening Thursdays, we actually get STXI THE DAY BEFORE the US.

Now, here comes the cool part, if you factor in time differences, somebody could go see STXI at a first session, say of 9:30am Thursday morning on the 7th of May and THAT IS ACTUALLY AROUND 6:30PM ON WEDNESDAY EVENING IN LA!!!!!!!


I LOVE being in the future!!!!!!

Actually, we knew about that months ago. Thing is, they still get to see it in Belgium first, on the sixth.

 

[number6]

I just checked Greater Union's website for upcoming releases this year and I saw that, once again, because of the Australian deal of movies opening Thursdays, we actually get STXI THE DAY BEFORE the US.

Now, here comes the cool part, if you factor in time differences, somebody could go see STXI at a first session, say of 9:30am Thursday morning on the 7th of May and THAT IS ACTUALLY AROUND 6:30PM ON WEDNESDAY EVENING IN LA!!!!!!!


I LOVE being in the future!!!!!!

Actually, we knew about that months ago. Thing is, they still get to see it in Belgium first, on the sixth.

Those Belgian Bastards!!! What, with all their hoidy toidy waffles and beer!!!

 

[Augustus]

Will their be midnight screenings? I don't remember if they had any for previous movies...

 

[Therin of Andor]

ROTJ opened around 25th of May 1983 in the US but we had to wait until November 17th 1983 here in Australia. Almost six months later!!!
That is UNACCEPTABLE!

What enabled that change to happen was that most Australian schools had their year changed to four terms, adding an extra set of school holidays. ST III - and ROTJ - were delayed here mainly because they couldn't be timed with appropriate school holidays.

Will their be midnight screenings? I don't remember if they had any for previous movies...

Dunno yet. The midnight screenings of genre films are usually organised because a comic shop, or other business venture, offers to organize one for a cinema chain. That way they can do a screening at 12.01am on the morning of the first legal day to screen the film.

TMP, ST II, ST III, and FC all had invitation-only sneak previews in Sydney, sometimes a week earlier than the premiere. ST IV was part of a huge celebrity event, the First Annual Buspak Awards, meaning we saw it about a month earlier than the general public. ST VI was shown to a rather large group of Sydney fans a week early in a theatrette to gauge reactions.

 

[trekkerguy]

A good friend of mine is in Tasmania. They get everything first.

I remember some of our group getting pissed off when he was playing
Gears of War 2 like 12 hours before us.

 

[Gertch]

A JJ Abrams film coming out of Australia first? I wouldn't fret. It'll probably be on flight 815 and then we'll never get to see it anyway.


Hurry up Wednesday!