I suspect The Dark Knight Rises will clean up the box office for at least a fortnight, if not 3 weeks. It could be argued that it is this years Biggest release.
If studios someday show guts like they did in '82....
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I suspect The Dark Knight Rises will clean up the box office for at least a fortnight, if not 3 weeks. It could be argued that it is this years Biggest release.
Possibly, although it hasn't been tracking as well as The Avengers. On top of that, Batman hasn't had a lot of international appeal historically. Although the Nolan films have been growing the character's international box office, it will take a big advertising push overseas for the movie to do as well as The Avengers.
Pretty sure it was jut dumb luck to two films now thought of as classics were released on the same day. Would either film being number one make them less of a classic?
Which is why they open on weekends.
You still need babysitters on weekends and they are harder to get and charge even more on weekend.
Well it might not do as well as the Avengers Assemble final box office, that doesn't mean it won't top the chart for the first 2-3weeks.
Oh, certainly. I'd be surprised if it is anywhere but number one in the first two, perhaps three weeks. Even if the movie is absolutely terrible, Warner Bros. will get a massive opening weekend.
The last DARK KNIGHT was number one for at least a month if memory serves and did become the all-time number two grosser until AVATAR and THE AVENGERS pushed it back. So it's possible RISES could match or surpass its predecessor....and maybe beat THE AVENGERS as well. They're a mega-team, but Batman's an institution. Nolan has never been terrible yet.
Now in terms of story, 2008's KNIGHT will be an incredibly tough act to follow. I think RISES will be better-written than THE AVENGERS and there's a 50-50 shot at being more successful. But.....since the greatest TV shows and movies seem to struggle more, we'll have to wait and see.
The first big summer hits are always in May, but July ones tend to clean up even more so. If RISES or SPIDER-MAN don't beat AVENGERS, probably nothing will.
Now in terms of story, 2008's KNIGHT will be an incredibly tough act to follow. I think RISES will be better-written than THE AVENGERS and there's a 50-50 shot at being more successful. But.....since the greatest TV shows and movies seem to struggle more, we'll have to wait and see.
The first big summer hits are always in May, but July ones tend to clean up even more so. If RISES or SPIDER-MAN don't beat AVENGERS, probably nothing will.
This doesn't make a lick of sense. Whether a film is good or not has absolutely nothing to do with what day it is released on, or whether it gets to number one or not. Utterly absurd.
Great films can flop badly, whilst bad films can be a runaway success. It's a matter of taste and preferrences. I could say that Avatar was a bad film, yet almost US$3bn at the box office would say it wasn't.
A high box office return whilst a sign of how good a film is, it shows how popular it is.
It's the same with TV, just because a show is number 1 doesn't mean it's great. Just that it's popular.
A high box office return whilst a sign of how good a film is, it shows how popular it is.
It's the same with TV, just because a show is number 1 doesn't mean it's great. Just that it's popular.
But most of the great films have a harder time getting quick success. THE DEPARTED was one of the last great AND popular films in my factinion.
Maybe if you're a high school or college kid on vacation. But, don't forget, the world is full of "real sci-fi buffs" who have families, kids, aging parents to look after, lawns to mow, work deadlines, etc. . . .
Plus, of course, no movie can survive simply by relying on hardcore sf buffs with time and interest enough to see both flicks. General audiences are probably only going to see one movie that weekend.
That being said, I have fond memories of seeing COCOON and LIFEFORCE on the same day (there's a combination that will mess with your head!), but I was younger and had less demands on my time then.
But, aside from making an interesting trivia point thirty years later, what exactly is gained by trying it once? Or, more to the point, where is the harm in staggering them?
Because there aren't enough blockbuster genre movies being made these days? Because (god forbid) there might only be one big scifi movie per weekend? How many new scifi movies do most people need to see in a single weekend?
I'm not really seeing the problem here.
And, yeah, COCOON and LIFEFORCE are like the yin/yang of alien energy movies. In fact, both movies feature a "sex" scene where the human hero and the sexy female alien share their life-forces. It was weird to see both of them on the same afternoon . . . .
Going even further back, I remember seeing TOOTSIE, STILL OF THE NIGHT, and THE VERDICT on one summer day . . . in that order!
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Where I used to live the biggest theaters were the Centuries with three all located together and one down the street. Plus there was a theater across the street from the Centuries. Most of the major releases went to the Centuries, so it was a matter of coordinating showtime and travel time to see multiple films on the same day.
Well, I'll say that the openness is refreshing.
I prefer positive campaigning on both sides. Like in 2008. It's why many voted for him in the first place.
And, of course, I remember double and triple features at drive-in theaters, but, even back then, I doubt that you could get a double bill of two brand-new "A" pictures on a single screen, let alone on opening day!
You could get some weird combinations, though. I still remember a double bill of CINDERELLA and TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE . . . .
You could get some weird combinations, though. I still remember a double bill of CINDERELLA and TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE . . . .
My dad loved the drive in and hated sit down theaters. So most of my childhood movie experience at the drive in. Sometimes seeing the films he liked, such as Matt Helm or westerns like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But kiddy fare like Disney movies or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, too. If they got too boring we'd go to the playground under the screens. I think my dad like drive ins because you could make a quick getaway if the film sucked and parking wasn't a problem.
