battlefield los angels who's gona go see it ?

[timothy]

I've seen three time now I still love it and it is so way better than avatar .
who need and hour an half of sceanery in a movie . battle la action 95% of the movie . I hope they do a sequal to it.

 

[Bishop76]

That's not likely - it's not profitable enough to warrant a sequel.

 

[Skywalker]

It's grossed $118 million worldwide so far against a $70 million budget, though I don't know how much they spent on marketing. It's not like it's a bomb or a commercial failure. Though I suspect that if they do greenlight a sequel (not that I'm terribly invested in seeing that happen), it probably wouldn't happen until after they see how the DVD/Blu-ray release does.

 

[Bishop76]

Yeah, profitability depends on what their marketing and distribution costs were and what cut the theaters are getting. It's pretty much done making money at the box office at this point (with an estimated 2 million last night, it's theater count will be halved or quartered by next weekend). It will probably make a bit of profit on DVD, but I see it as breaking even or being very mildly profitable and with a huge drop from it's first weekend to it's second, I don't think we have to worry about a sequel.

 

[Dac]

I was thinking about a sequel and how much potential there is for spreading the risk.

They could share or license the franchise between/to studios and do localized versions of the flick set in the same universe. I'd gladly watch Battle:Hong Kong, Battle: Paris and Battle:London all in their native languages, made by local production companies under the umbrella of Universal. It would be interesting to see each countries take on the source material while having it all be equally valid, as opposed to a remake.

 

[Star Wolf]

I was thinking about a sequel and how much potential there is for spreading the risk.

They could share or license the franchise between/to studios and do localized versions of the flick set in the same universe. I'd gladly watch Battle:Hong Kong, Battle: Paris and Battle:London all in their native languages, made by local production companies under the umbrella of Universal. It would be interesting to see each countries take on the source material while having it all be equally valid, as opposed to a remake.

That might be interesting. How do the Chinese see a platoon of the People's Army versus the archetypes of the GI squad from all over the nation plus immigrants? but beyond that we just have AK-74s versus M-4s

 

[timothy]

so how many of you are going to get the blu ray?

 

[Candlelight]

Just started watching it but have stopped due to a hungry 11-month old.

Not very mind-blowing so far. Was amazed at how many cliches the marines were comprised of.

 

[Dr. Chandra]

My kids gave me the DVD for Father's Day. I love it!