watchmen-march 6th, 2009

hmm same spot as 300. Hoping to repeat same sucess of 300.

Don't forget there is some animated movie releasing that month from Blue Sky studios. Most of their CGI animated movies have crossed $100 million domestically so it might affect Watchmen.

The Signal October 26, 2007
King of California September 14, 2007

BTW Trick 'r Treat and 30 Days of Night are both R; The Kite Runner is PG-13...

Not really it Worked with AWE in China...

Too close Magnus. 2 weeks between comic book films, especially after 2 others have been released is too close.

they better not...tdk would kill it...

I totally agree about all those from July 2nd onwards...

HBII has to move out of the summer - even October would be good for it. Love Guru Vs Hancock is also good. Step Brothers could be couple with another film - probably a drama or thriller.

Now Wolverine Vs Wall-E - this will be an interesting battle. Not sure if the studios would be game enough but possibly seeing its Fox (5day) vs Disney (3day) just like 07.

Only question is whether a 12 day gap back to The Hulk is enough.

wolverine needs to get out of summer.

I think the gaps are fine. Im more concerned about the perception that their are too many comic book films. The good thing is the fans will come - but whether as big as a general audience as could have been will materialise.

Im actually having alot more faith in Iron Man after seeing the preview.

I'd put their grosses as such (if they come out as per your release dates)

Iron Man - $160-$180m
The Hulk - $110-$120m
Wolverine - $170-$190m
The Dark Knight - $260-$290m

$275m is what ive been saying for a while too. At worst i think it will be $260m but $275-$315m is the area it will be in. Strong weekdays should help it. I guess it will then depend on how well its received.

Im thinking its a straight fight between Indy, TDK and Narnia - with Wall-E the outside chance. It definitely wont be as clear cut as the May three in 07. But the safest bet would have to be TDK at this stage. Indy has more potential but is more of an unkown. Its also yet to be determined what impact the summer move will have on Narnia and Wall-E is a complete unkown. It could go anywhere from $160m to $360m.

Just noticed that Robots have seemed to make a big come back in the 2nd half of the decade. In 2005 both I, Robot and Robots made over $100m. Then Transformers exploded with $300m this year. Then next year we'll have Iron Man and Wall-E both expecting huge numbers. No dount another Transformers will come too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423977/releaseinfo
Charlie Bartlett releases on November 9th.

New dates/changes:

Balls of Fury - August 29, 2007 (from 8/31)
First Sunday - January 11, 2008 (from 1/18)
Superhero Movie - March 28, 2008 (from 3/21)

Interesting. Too many big movies coming in march 2008.

10,000 BC
Horton Hears a who
Superhero movie

I know u will say spoof movies suck but it is a superhero spoof movie and if they spoof spider-man, batman, superman, x-men and fantastic four then I am sure it will make some kind of money at boxoffice.

superman and xmen were already spoofed. SUPERHEROMOVIE! woulda been big had date movie ne pic movie never happened. Itdll 20/45 AT BEST...

Fools Gold; 10,000 B.C; Horton, and Prom Night will clean up next spring.

Don't care about Fools Gold and Prom Night.

10,000 BC looks interesting but should have been at comic con. I don't it to do much more than $120 million domestically.

Horton could become huge due to the fact that after Bee movie and Beowulf there are no big animated movies up until Horton Hears a Who. So families could go in big numbers to watch that movie.

It was at Comic Con, but all they showed was the same trailer that has been out there.

I'm not exactly sure what the story was with why they chose to profile ONE MISSED CALL over 10,000 B.C. other than MISSED CALL is locked and 10,000 B.C. just had its first test screening a few weeks ago. I'm guessing that they just don't have anything fx set piece ready on 10,000 B.C. besides what is in the trailer and no buzz is better than bad buzz on something as costly as 10KBC, but any buzz on MISSED CALL is worth the risk with the low budget.

Also think it's weird I AM LEGEND and HANCOCK were passed over, but if you don't have Will Smith in person to overcome the certain contingent of fanboys who believe he destroys films like I, ROBOT, I can see why they passed, since he is legitimately knee deep in HANCOCK production. The fanboys were putty for The Rock on the Get Smart panel.

It was at Comic Con, but all they showed was the same trailer that has been out there.

I'm not exactly sure what the story was with why they chose to profile ONE MISSED CALL over 10,000 B.C. other than MISSED CALL is locked and 10,000 B.C. just had its first test screening a few weeks ago. I'm guessing that they just don't have anything fx set piece ready on 10,000 B.C. besides what is in the trailer and no buzz is better than bad buzz on something as costly as 10KBC, but any buzz on MISSED CALL is worth the risk with the low budget.

Also think it's weird I AM LEGEND and HANCOCK were passed over, but if you don't have Will Smith in person to overcome the certain contingent of fanboys who believe he destroys films like I, ROBOT, I can see why they passed, since he is legitimately knee deep in HANCOCK production. The fanboys were putty for The Rock on the Get Smart panel.[/quote]




What do u mean putty for The Rock??

From what i know people cheered big time when The Rock came to the Get Smart panel.

hat do u mean putty for The Rock??

From what i know people cheered big time when The Rock came to the Get Smart panel.[/quote]

Putty as in, The Rock could do whatever he wanted with them (aka extremely positive reaction

Maybe January 25 is just the wide date and it's going to have a brief Oscar-qualifying run at the end of this year.

When will The Day the Earth Stood Still get officially cancelled? The production was stalled and there is no cast/director/whatever.

i heard Once is expanding?

Well, at least Charlie Bartlett has a real release date now. Some of the early hype has me very intrigued in it.

To be honest, with the kind of weird buzz the Cloverfield project is picking up, I'd be a bit wary of putting a movie out on the same day, even if it is just being dumped in the January wasteland. But the thing is, it's still so far away that if the buzz proves to be nothing more than a fluke, a studio could still position a project against it. Still, I have a feeling it will be the rarest of rare things at the box office: A $100 million hit in January.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan Sony / Columbia 6/6/08 New
The International Sony / Columbia 9/12/08 New
The Other Boleyn Girl Sony / Columbia 2/29/08 12/21/07
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Sony / Columbia 12/21/07 12/14/07

I'm actually disappointed with this. I was kinda sorta looking forward to this. The move means it's not good enough to get awards buzz.