Wrath of the Titans trailer is up!

[Disruptor]

Why can't the turn out sequels to good movies this fast?

At least he hasn't got a crew cut this time around.

 

[RAMA]

Good trailer overall, but the Marilyn Manson music didn't work for me..

RAMA

 

[JD]

Yeah, that was kind of strange music to pick for this type of movie.

 

[davejames]

Trailer looks decent. But while the first movie was better than average, I can't say I have any interest whatsoever in seeing a sequel.

 

[Brikar99]

I though the first one was decent, if hollow, and this looks like more of the same. Seems like the sort of thing I'd be okay with renting and relaxing with on a Saturday afternoon - which is sometimes my favorite kind of movie.

 

[Mach5]

Clash of the Titans was awful. I'll pass.

 

[Technobuilder]

Somehow I completely missed any mention of this until now...

The turn around on this must of been crazy.

 

[nvek86]

Two years between films is quick, but it isn't that unusual (there were two years between the Transformers films or the first and second Spider-Man for instance).

 

[Mach5]

(there were two years between the Transformers films or the first and second Spider-Man for instance).

The last couple of 007 movies were only two years apart as well.

 

[Aragorn]

Quick turnaround is nothing. Look at those godawful Friday the 13th, Saw, Police Academy and Paranormal Activity movies that came out the very next year. Sequels can be set up really quickly if quality isn't an issue.

 

[Mach5]

Look at those godawful Friday the 13th, Saw, Police Academy and Paranormal Activity movies that came out the very next year. Sequels can be set up really quickly if quality isn't an issue.

Money isn't an issue either. These are all cheap as hell and extremely profitable. "Paranormal Activity 3" cost only $5 mil. and made 105 mil. domestically. Who wouldn't greenlight the fourth as fast as possible?

Clash of the Titans was nowhere near as cheap to make, nor as successful (125 mil. budget, 165 mil. domestic gross), but it probably made shitloads of cash in home video. I wonder how much the sequel cost...

 

[Goliath]

Really? I didn't know Andromeda was blonde.

Considering that these movies have otherwise taken great pains to stay true to ancient Greek history and mythology, I'm surprised that they overlooked this important point.

 

[nvek86]

Clash of the Titans was nowhere near as cheap to make, nor as successful (125 mil. budget, 165 mil. domestic gross), but it probably made shitloads of cash in home video.

No idea how successful it was on home video, but it also made another 330 mil. in international revenue, so the studio is definitely not only looking on the domestic side of things.

 

[Gojira]

Clash of the Titans was nowhere near as cheap to make, nor as successful (125 mil. budget, 165 mil. domestic gross), but it probably made shitloads of cash in home video.

No idea how successful it was on home video, but it also made another 330 mil. in international revenue, so the studio is definitely not only looking on the domestic side of things.

I think these days the studios are focused on both the domestic and foreign box office.

I loved the first movie and I am looking forward to the sequel.

 

[Mach5]

No idea how successful it was on home video, but it also made another 330 mil. in international revenue, so the studio is definitely not only looking on the domestic side of things.

This article offers a somewhat different perspective.

In reality, however, these impressive-sounding receipts represented the foreign theatres' revenue, not the studiosʼ share of it. In fact, the studios get an even smaller share of the foreign than of the American box-office. Last year, the studios' share averaged about 40 per cent of ticket sales. And from those revenues studios have to pay for foreign advertising, prints, taxes, insurance, translations, etc. Once those expenses are deducted, the studios are lucky to wind up with 15 per cent of what is reported as the foreign gross.

Consider a typical movie – Disney's Gone In 60 Seconds
Its reported foreign gross was $129,477,395. Of that sum, Disney got $55,979.966 and paid out $37,986,053 in expenses.

They included:

Foreign advertising $25,197,723
Foreign prints $ 5,660.837
Foreign taxes $ 5,077,286
Foreign versions $ 822,997
Foreign shipping $ 454,973
Currency conversion $ 266,900
Foreign trade dues $ 122,275

 

[Derishton]

How many Greek myth-themed movies and TV shows have now done a "Titans get free" plot? Disney's Hercules, the Xena/Hercules stuff. For something that never happens in Greek myth, it seems pretty common in film. And TV. And graphic novels (just re-read the Perez/Wolfman Teen Titans omnibus, and it happens there, too). It's almost as though there are only three Greek myths in existence. Show us an Amazon war, for Zeus's sake!

 

[nvek86]

^It's also the plot of last year's "Immortals".

This article offers a somewhat different perspective.

Oh, I know that the studio would prefer to make the 330 mill on the domestic front, because they get a bigger percentage there.
But I'm also pretty sure that the international gross, if it's big enough, can sway a studio to produce a sequel (like "Prince Caspian").

 

[Ethros]

So this is out now, and this is the newest thread I could find on it (as I can't be bothered starting a new one)


Saw it this afternoon. Hmm... there's a part in the movie where Perseus and co are wandering round a labyrinth, and it keeps on shifting, basically making it one huge mess. I kinda thought at the time it was a nice metaphor the film.

Throw in the Cyclops (wasn't that Odysseus?), throw in the Minotaur (wasn't that Theseus?), something about Mt Tartarus (thought I was watching Immortals again for a minute), have some wise cracking sidekick in it, I don't even know who he was, just some "navigator" for whatever reason... etc etc



I wasn't expecting gold, just that most of the reviews I saw said it was far better than the first. I don't know about that, I'd say they were at the same level, if not a bit worse. I haven't seen the first since it came out to be fair, but I don't remember being that bored watching that one.

Rosamund Pike looked pretty tidy in it though.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Is she supposed to be Andromeda? She looks like a different character.. the original was not a blonde warrior.
Does she do a lot of fighting (there's one shot in the trailer where she seems to sustain a blow that throws her back 50 feet!)

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Throw in the Cyclops (wasn't that Odysseus?), throw in the Minotaur (wasn't that Theseus?), something about Mt Tartarus (thought I was watching Immortals again for a minute), have some wise cracking sidekick in it, I don't even know who he was, just some "navigator" for whatever reason... etc etc

I think a lot of things go for the Xena melting pot method of drawing from mythology.

I wasn't expecting gold, just that most of the reviews I saw said it was far better than the first. I don't know about that, I'd say they were at the same level, if not a bit worse. I haven't seen the first since it came out to be fair, but I don't remember being that bored watching that one.

I thought Clash was pretty boring myself.