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S X Tape bombed as well and will easily fail to reach its budget, serves it right, in my opinion it was such a dumb film.
Seems everything from last week was thrown out to make room for the two new releases and three-week holdover "Apes". Purge, Planes, and SX Tape.Yeah, it deserved to fail as week! It seems The Purge 2 dropped a lot as well. I guess that's good.
No film in August really succeeds, heck the highest grossing film from August I remember is The Help at a final total less than $170 million. The odds really aren't for GOTG, and I think planning a sequel, and announcing an animated series is a classic counting your chickens before they hatch.I hope the fact that last week's films had weak openings (Hercules especially) doesn't mean the public's sick of blockbusters before GOTG. I still think they were playing with fire putting it in August.
Yet, it seems that they're fairly confident it will be a hit. A sequel has been announced as well as an animated series. And I noticed the merchandise is starting to move even before the film's release date.
Someone please answer me this question.... was there ever a successful August film?
Again, I don't understand this arbitrary standard of yours. $170 million dollars for a $25 million movie isn't just a success, it's wildly successful. The $30 million budgeted Butler came out last August and made over $116 million domestically. That too was considered an impressive hit.No film in August really succeeds, heck the highest grossing film from August I remember is The Help at a final total less than $170 million. The odds really aren't for GOTG, and I think planning a sequel, and announcing an animated series is a classic counting your chickens before they hatch.
This is a weird experiment indeed. But, I think this movie may just rise to the top five of the year (if not the top film of the year). So far critics love it (94% so far at RT), preview audiences have expressed their joy about it and the studio is so pleased that there are now rumors of the Guardians director taking over the Avengers franchise from Whedon for the third installment. The only thing sour is the release date. I'm not so worried about that.Drtooth said:The Marvel brand might just pull through, though. They've been marketing theheck out of the film, and considering this film may have a connection to Age of Ultron (and probably will have some teaser for it as well), it pretty much has a built in Marvel fan audience. Plus, the thing might just do well overseas (Amazing Spider-Man 2 made it's budget before it was released stateside).
It's the more mainstream audiences I'd be concerned with. GOTG isn't exactly the most popular of Marvel comics. Most people never even heard about it until the film's announcement.
It's not so much that it's true or not. The real problem is that they judged those films based on the fact that the women hero action movies they released were freakin' awful. A live action Aeon Flux? Was there a point to that? How about a live action Superjail, then? Taking something that's only appealing in animation, and making it a generic action film is not a good way to judge how women action stars will go over.Studio executives also feel that women action heroes can't helm movies, but we know that's not true after last week's Lucy.