SPECTRE | 11/6/15 | Final Trailer on Page 126! | Twitter reactions coming in, STID 2.0?

[Goffe]

Bond has always been expensive to shoot and the fact they have such a tight shooting schedule likely means the budget will increase. QoS shot without a finished script and it really shows.

 

There's an interesting article in THR about Sony's involvement with Spectre and it does seem it's just as important to them to try and keep it as it would for MGM. 

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-sony-could-lose-james-833474

In an email last October, Andrew Gumpert, who heads Sony's business affairs, predicted that if Spectre grosses $1.1 billion worldwide, and assuming a budget between $250 million and $275 million, Sony would realize about $35 million.

[zackzack]

$280m is the # someone posted above.  In the Sony leaks it was mid 300 millions.  $280m might be after tax credits.

 

Sony's deal with EON ends after SPECTRE.  Sso either they'll be renewed as financier/distributor or EON and MGM will find another studio to partner up with for the Bond franchise.

 

MGM is fully functioning studio right? Why do they have to hunt for partners?

 

Although Warner will be an interesting choice. For Warner, they are in desperate need

for a franchise even if they have the DCU going for the next 5 years. But let's not be surprised

if they take the Bond franchise into even darker, grittier territory. 

 

But in the end, I heard Sony took very little profit for the mega success of Skyfall.

Probably scare away any potential partners. Home Video business could be good though.

Just keep re-releasing those box sets

[Goffe]

MGM is fully functioning studio right? Why do they have to hunt for partners?

because of financial problems. MGM stopped distributing their own movies almost 50 years ago.

Co-financers helps to mitigate the risks of a big budgeted movie.

Edited October 21, 2015 by Goffe

[Jonwo]

MGM is fully functioning studio right? Why do they have to hunt for partners?

 

Although Warner will be an interesting choice. For Warner, they are in desperate need

for a franchise even if they have the DCU going for the next 5 years. But let's not be surprised

if they take the Bond franchise into even darker, grittier territory. 

 

But in the end, I heard Sony took very little profit for the mega success of Skyfall.

Probably scare away any potential partners. Home Video business could be good though.

Just keep re-releasing those box sets

 

MGM don't distribute anymore and can't afford to fully pay for movies themselves. The Hobbit was because they owned the rights to it but the other Tolkien elements belonged to New Line so they had to co-produce it with them and WB. Things like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and the Jump Street films were incentives from Sony to get allow them to co-produce and co-finance Skyfall and Spectre. 

[antovolk]

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/imagining-james-bonds-bachelor-pad-833158

 

UK press show about to start...

[AJG]

Press screening just started.

[antovolk]

SPECTRE: old-school adventure & flamboyance, done with discretion & steel. Not a classic but strong

https://twitter.com/jamie_graham9/status/656931731199672320

 

THE BARREL IS BACK

https://twitter.com/Rob_Coppinger/status/656932282507374592

[CoolioD1]

not a classic but strong

 

=65% on rt. everyone fucking hates it in about 5 weeks.

[AJG]

I've seen 6 tweets.

1 Dissapointing

1 Stron not Classic

2 it's good

And 2 bullshit "hey look at me I went to an early screening, thanks Sony" tweets that aren't worth anybody's time.

Edited October 21, 2015 by AJG

[TalismanRing]

Total Film

 

 

SPECTRE: old-school adventure & flamboyance, done with discretion & steel. Not a classic but strong

— Jamie Graham (@jamie_graham9)

October 21, 2015

 

 

 

Metro UK

 

 

Disappointing #SPECTRE

— Hanna Flint (@HannaFlint)

October 21, 2015

 

 

Guardian

 

 

#Spectre great fun, very exciting, sexily pro-Snowden

— Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1)

October 21, 2015

 

 

Film Four

 

 

Just seen Spectre. No spoilers. Anyway, Looking at my watch, I see it's bedtime, & with Garbage day tomorrow I'd better take out the Rubbish

— ali catterall (@AliCatterall)

October 21, 2015

 

[antovolk]

"Spectre: the elegant ghost of vintage Bonds gone before. Cruel, dark & handsome, GSOH. Liked this a lot, surpassed expectations."

https://twitter.com/XanBrooks/status/656933298850131969

Edited October 21, 2015 by antovolk

[Fancyarcher]

So basically it's another QOS.

Edited October 21, 2015 by FancyArcher

[antovolk]

WTF guys- I'm tracking "spectre" on Twitter and seeing way more positive reactions, only 1 or 2 mixed.

At least a better start than INTERSTELLAR....

[AJG]

Seen more tweets.

It's looking all good.

[antovolk]

Well. The Playlist hated it....like Interstellar

https://twitter.com/olilyttelton/status/656934296259842049

[TalismanRing]

Playlist

 

 

SPECTRE: Quantum Of Solace 2: This Time It's Personal. Bad action, lousy plotting, Lea Seydoux only redeeming feature.

— olilyttelton (@olilyttelton) October 21, 2015

[CoolioD1]

seems that with the daniel craig theme tunes the quality lines up with the movie well enough. the chris cornell one was cool, the jack white one was a mess, the adele one was like "ok, we're back" and the sam smith one was a shrug. that's the vibe I'm getting here.

[TalismanRing]

Skiznit

 

 

 

Initial #Spectre thoughts then: Everything you expect a Bond film to do well, it does. Great action set-pieces, nice touches of humour...

— Matt Looker (@marziepanic)

October 21, 2015

 

 

 

... but there is so much wrong with it. Terrible plot contrivances, a saggy middle, unearned relationships.

— Matt Looker (@marziepanic)

October 21, 2015

 

 

 

The main problem with Spectre is that it tries too hard to be interesting by making Bond himself interesting. But the more you define him...

— Matt Looker (@marziepanic)

October 21, 2015

 

 

 

... the more you paint him into a corner. A better film here would be to make the PLOT interesting and just let Bond be Bond throughout it.

— Matt Looker (@marziepanic)

October 21, 2015

 

[water]

[Cmasterclay]

Most reactions are pretty strong for it, seems to be a bit of cherry picking of bad reacts here. Most seem to praise the humor and tone of the piece. Will have to see more to get real picture.