Point Break | December 25, 2015 | China Release on December 3rd, 3 weeks before the US.

[CJohn]

This is not being released by WB OS. So they already recovered part of the budget.

[grim22]

This is not being released by WB OS. So they already recovered part of the budget.

 

Wait... Lionsgate???????????

 

They don't distribute Hunger Games in OS territories and they thought this was a good investment?

 

 

 

And this isn't produced by WB either, this is an Alcon production. Alcon's second big bomb in a row by the looks of it after Transcendence.

Edited May 26, 2015 by grim22

[CoolioD1]

It LOOKS so fucking ugly. that's my big take away.

[RobinHood26]

Woah that was not quite what I was expecting. Yeah those 2 leads are not doin it for me.

[CJohn]

Wait... Lionsgate???????????

 

They don't distribute Hunger Games in OS territories and they thought this was a good investment?

 

 

 

And this isn't produced by WB either, this is an Alcon production. Alcon's second big bomb in a row by the looks of it after Transcendence.

Lionsgate doesn't release movies anywhere OS except the UK. It was sold to local distributors everywhere.

[grim22]

Lionsgate doesn't release movies anywhere OS except the UK. It was sold to local distributors everywhere.

 

The movie was sold at Cannes in 2013, one of 3 sold by Lionsgate back then. The article gives a much better synopsis of #Mortdecai than any of the marketing did

 

Lionsgate has had a bumper AFM. In addition to Point Break, Wachsberger also sold out its two other biggest market titles: Alex Proyas' epic adventure film, Gods of Egypt, starring Gerard Butler;Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites and Geoffrey Rush; and Mortdecai, in which Johnny Depp plays a debonair art dealer and part-time rogue who goes on a globe-trotting adventure with wife Gwyneth Paltrow in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the secrets of long lost Nazi gold. Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn and Paul Bettany also star. David Koepp (Premium Rush) is directing.

Point Break's dazzling success at AFM is all the more impressive when you consider the film's director, Ericson Core, has just one feature directing credit to his name -- the 2006 football movieInvincible, which stars Mark Wahlberg. But Core knows how to deliver wow-'em visuals (he was the cinematographer on the first Fast and the Furious film) and a pitch reel produced for AFM apparently blew buyers away.

“Buyers were sold on the high concept of the film,” Wachsberger tells The Hollywood Reporter. “This is going to be a much larger scale film than the first one.”

[Avatree]

Lionsgate doesn't release movies anywhere OS except the UK. It was sold to local distributors everywhere.

Grim's post really confused me... I was like, 'Uhh, pretty sure Lionsgate distributes THG here', thanks for clarifying

[Plain Old Tele]

What grim's post is saying is that foreign presales probably covered a good chunk (if not all) of the film's budget. It'll end up making a profit.

[Chewy]

The movie was sold at Cannes in 2013, one of 3 sold by Lionsgate back then. The article gives a much better synopsis of #Mortdecai than any of the marketing did

 

#mortdecai one of Lionsgate's biggest titles 

Edited May 26, 2015 by Chewy

[Ethan Hunt]

I don't understand why you guys are so quick to write this off as a bomb though.

[grim22]

What grim's post is saying is that foreign presales probably covered a good chunk (if not all) of the film's budget. It'll end up making a profit.

 

On paper, it looks like #Mortdecai didn't hurt Lionsgate a lot either. I'm guessing they got a lot of presales just on Depp's name. If only those poor distributors knew what they were getting into.

[DAJK]

What happened to all the surfing? The ex-presidents? I didn't love the original Point Break but...

 

I don't know about this one. I thought that anyone would be an improvement over Keanu, but this new guy looks even worse IMO. The whole movie just looks dull at the moment. I hope it's good, and I'll still see it (if I'm not seeing TFA for the 9th time) but I'm unsure about it at this point. That poster was better than this entire trailer.

[Chewy]

I don't understand why you guys are so quick to write this off as a bomb though.

 

It's ugly as sin, has zero stars, tries to sell the "athletes committing crimes" thing seriously, and is opening on Christmas

[Plain Old Tele]

What happened to all the surfing? The ex-presidents? I didn't love the original Point Break but...

 

I don't know about this one. I thought that anyone would be an improvement over Keanu, but this new guy looks even worse IMO. The whole movie just looks dull at the moment. I hope it's good, and I'll still see it (if I'm not seeing TFA for the 9th time) but I'm unsure about it at this point. That poster was better than this entire trailer.

 

Keanu is underappreciated. He was great in the original PB.

[filmlover]

Yeah, this is destined to be one of this year's holiday casualties.

[grim22]

Keanu is underappreciated. He was great in the original PB.

 

Have you seen Point Break Live? It plays in Hollywood and is hilarious.

 

http://pointbreakla.com/pointbreakla/HOME.html

[grim22]

Point Break O/U 47 Ronin?

[Chewy]

Btw Edgar Ramirez is great, hope this doesn't take his career with it

[grim22]

Best Point Break theory I have heard - the movie is all about a Mormon letting go of his religion and converting to Buddhism.

[AdamKendall]

Wow, that looks terrible ... and yeah, I know F&F ripped off aspects of the original PB, but with the original AND F&F ... this really feels like we've been  here before.