grey ghost Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 If Oz bombs may as well pack it in till Iron Man 3. Nah, Iron Man has a built in audience and will get a boost from Avengers. It's the first event movie of the year with 400 million potential. Oz is just a warm up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 (edited) Everyone is hurting in America. I'm sorry this isn't 5 or 10 years ago. So yes people are WAY more picky now about movies then they were a decade ago. Also technology has to be blamed. There are way more ways to watch movies today. DVD's come out 3-4 months after the movies are released so people seem to be waiting a lot longer instead of rushing to the Theater. I remember 20 years ago it took "Jurassic Park" FOREVER to come on VHS. But cause studios are losing money they are releasing them to home video quicker. I know making a film a huge risk for any studio or investor. You never know if he will work or not, there is no perfect science. But because the ticket sales continue to drop year after year. I expect Hollywood to be even more picky about projects they put out. I'm an "Original" screenplay guy. I love it when stuff like "Inception" break out cause it's not an established property but now I understand the name of the game. To all my original screenplay writers out there, keep doing your thing but make stories with manageable budgets. What these studios should be doing is not giving risky tough sells like Jack the giant Slayer huge budgets, and just release a lot of those kinds of movies directly to video. Would solve a lot of the problem with these unappealing movies. Edited March 2, 2013 by IronMan89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 The sky is falling! Look, the product Hollywood has put out this year just hasn't interested audiences. It's not like people suddenly stopped going to the movies for no reason. Exactly, Oscar movies are all having tremendous runs so "so-called" sky is falling isn't effecting them. In actuality, current new movies are looking like generic crap and audiences are saying FU to Hollywood by only going to theaters for interesting movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLK Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 (edited) 2013 Stats via Rotten Tomatoes Wide Releases : 24 Fresh : 3 Rotten : 21 The quality has been shit this year. Edited March 2, 2013 by TLK 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 2013 Stats via Rotten Tomatoes Wide Releases : 24 Fresh : 3 Rotten : 21 The quality has been shit this year so far. Yikes, didn't realize that few movies have been fresh this year. Pretty much says it all though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 If Oz bombs Croods will be another Guardians and GI Joe will tank Die Hard style. And I will kill myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 I think quality will be down this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 If Oz bombs this year is going to be box office hell. Because there's no reason an appealing family flick to a starved audience should bomb, unless everything is going to bomb this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Exactly, Oscar movies are all having tremendous runs so "so-called" sky is falling isn't effecting them. In actuality, current new movies are looking like generic crap and audiences are saying FU to Hollywood by only going to theaters for interesting movies. Remember when Avengers came out and everyone saw it, then the public boycotted the next 8 weeks of movies starting with Battleship. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Remember when Avengers came out and everyone saw it, then the public boycotted the next 8 weeks of movies starting with Battleship. lol. It actually started with Dark Shadows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druv10 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Remember when Avengers came out and everyone saw it, then the public boycotted the next 8 weeks of movies starting with Battleship. lol. Yep, if you give audiences interesting and good movies, they'll show up but so far this year has been severely lacking in quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Remember when Avengers came out and everyone saw it, then the public boycotted the next 8 weeks of movies starting with Battleship. lol. Next 8 weeks? 3 at the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Futurist Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Don't worry peasants, the box office shall live forever ! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htall90 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Your obsessed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTF Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 (edited) Nah, Iron Man has a built in audience and will get a boost from Avengers.It's the first event movie of the year with 400 million potential.Oz is just a warm up. till IM3And never understood why WB spent so much on Jack...it was never going to do very well and a $25m ow seem about right. Also, OZ looks way better, has received much better reception and buzz, so it should do much better than Jack...just not sure $70m ow better. $50-60m ow sure. Edited March 2, 2013 by FTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockNrollaDIM Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 It just proves you don`t need to overpay Sly and Arnie if you want a 1 digit weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvikk Lunsj Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Nothing looks good rigtht now so the audience is not going to waste thier money on crap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Nevada Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 I'm glad Gangster Squad bombed so bad. I just watched it and its some fucking bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acetabulum7 Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Oz won't bomb. Most likely it'll have a slightly above "mediocre" opening. $70M? Maybe $80M? Studio wants $100M+ but that ain't happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Oz isn't bombing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
