interiorgatordecorator Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 3 hours ago, filmlover said: ala "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies" becoming simply "Spoiler Alert") wasnt it originally announced with the full (and much better) title? why'd they change it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 28 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said: wasnt it originally announced with the full (and much better) title? why'd they change it? Too long and too much of a downer, probably. The marketing changed gears in general in recent weeks after all the dramas sputtered. The movie's final poster shows practically zero indication that it's a cancer drama like the earlier one did: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Eric Dielman said: https://deadline.com/2022/12/black-panther-wakanda-forever-puss-in-boots-the-last-wish-global-international-box-office-1235195914/ Had no idea this came out early overseas this weekend. Good for them I guess. Pretty bad start compared to the 2011 movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interiorgatordecorator Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 1 minute ago, CJohn said: Pretty bad start compared to the 2011 movie. dont worry its got extra lives 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeFangrl Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 4 hours ago, filmlover said: I feel like "bad title" could be applied to most of the movies that struggled this fall, but the thing of note is that a number of those movies (Bones and All, She Said, Devotion, Spoiler Alert, Women Talking) were based on books and had to keep their titles (or at least an abbreviated version of them, ala "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies" becoming simply "Spoiler Alert") and the books themselves weren't popular enough to ensure a level of box office success to make up for the un-marquee-friendly nature of their titles (and in most cases, their subject matter). A movie doesn’t have to keep the book's title, unless authors/estates are that ego driven that it was a condition of selling the rights. Maybe studios think of book fans as a built-in audience and worry they won't show up if the adaptation is called something else. But what they're doing now clearly isn't working at the moment. People are laughing at Sony's preemptive branding move to "The Whitney Houston Movie - I Wanna Dance With Somebody", but I think a similar sort of thing wouldn’t have hurt these other movies. How about... Bones and All: A Cannibal Love Story (the trailers don't hide this, so it's fair game for the title) She Said: The Takedown of a Hollywood Monster or She Said: Hollywood Harassment Exposed, if you don't want to make him a title character. Devotion... Honestly, after reading the plot, maybe it should’ve just been a documentary. Then, the long title wouldn’t have mattered. Spoiler Alert, if they were going to stick with any form of that title, needed to explain it the trailer. I haven't seen the movie so maybe something like this happens, but... It's a love story. You show a snippet of an early date: Michael explains that he provides TV spoilers for a living, Kit hates the idea of knowing the ending ahead of time, Michael says it helps people be prepared, but Kit protests that not knowing is part of the fun of watching, and anyway, life doesn't work like that. "Would you want to know how it all ends?" And, you've framed the rest of the story... Women Talking is pretty tough as a title. 12 Angry Women is probably too derivative, but would signal what to expect. Also, the book is inspired by real-life events in Bolivia?! Bolivian Mennonites are a thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissykins Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Great holds for Violent Night and The Menu! Happy to see that The Menu will pass $30m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex SciChannel Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 How does Puss in Boots' performance overseas compare to Sing 2 in like for like markets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMisfits Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 OT: In my return to having D+, I'm catching up on my missing Disney material. James Gunn - you're a genius. The Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special is great! There can not be too much Kevin Bacon in it! A solid A/A- tv special (only Mantis gets a little ding for maybe overacting the part)... And I watched the Eternals, and I thought it was a very cold movie. It was so disconnected to what a human person might actually struggle with for the conflict, and it had moments with no set up that ended up making no sense. It was the definition of incredibly mediocre, and the definition of missing the concept of the originating characters from the comics. When you do both, you get a box office like they did. I didn't hate it - but I will never watch it again. It's a C/C- grade from me. If someone who REALLY knew the Eternals and Deviants from the comics took a shot, I'd expect it would have been much better from the starting concept stage... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NamakFiskKa Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 22 hours ago, IronJimbo said: Losing Chadwick & RDJ & Evans seems to have taken a toll I was only looking forward to Doctor Strange (self sabotaged by d+ shows) and BP 2 (until Boseman wasnt in it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustLurking Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 On 12/10/2022 at 4:43 PM, JustLurking said: Wait what, hasn't there? I could've sworn I saw this somewhere, I guess it was bullshit then. MB. Well, I guess it wasn't then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BestPicturePlutoNash Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I was only one in theater for Strange World. Felt like a funeral procession and I was putting it out of its misery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
