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It's Bond, and SF was a monumental success financially. The screens will be packed to the rafters opening weekend, just like QoS when it smashed CR's opening weekend. I genuinely believe that this film just has to be a great film to be a success. It's a bit like Coca-Cola. People would still buy it, advertising or not. The difference with Bond is that it changes it's flavour with each film. If the masses clamouring to see it love that flavour the rest will follow.
Same can be said for any other blockbusters the year, from Avengers to Star Wars, in fact I don't see SPECTRE beating either...
Yes, Bond is a massive success all things considered worldwide, but the real challenge this year is the domestic market, which is why so much effort is being focused by Sony on that. SF getting to 300m is a great achievement over other Bonds but now on this level, they can't just rely on people showing up, this is where the actual aggressive marketing from the types of Disney and Universal kicks in, if they want to get to 400m domestically. Currently SP's closest rival is the final Hunger Games. Sure SPECTRE will win over easily overseas as HG has much less appeal overseas compared to other blockbusters, and SP is the inverse, but domestic HG is almost sure to beat SP.
If you read the leaks, and this is not a spoiler, you can see the desperation by the Sony suits to get the film opened as soon as possible to nail a big opening weekend. They are placed in between some potentially very big competition. SWs alone will hurt, and we're not even discussing a limited number of IMAX screens, which is really a 3rd critical factor. SP is going to lose critical IMAX screen #s to HG and SWs. They had better make big BO up front, or the final # will be disappointing.
I'm not suggesting marketing isn't important, but you can't polish a turd. If the movie doesn't meet expectations, you can market the arse off it and it will still fall short.
In all honesty, though, it's the last of my worries. I'm just looking forward to the film, whether it breaks records is secondary. It's going to make a bucketload of money, let's not get greedy and concerned with competing against the big boys. We've always been better than that and we'll outlast them all.
They will make as much they can. I can't speak for the US, but in the UK you have to be hiding under a rock, or dead, to not know Bond is out.
Re. Mad Max, it's a very specific genre film that is a 15 certificate, in the UK at least. You might as well kiss goodbye to your BO if your film doesn't accommodate a father/mother taking their 7 year old.
In reality, are you concerned? SF had a perfect storm of marketing that allowed it to smash the BO. SP doesn't have that and that's nobodies fault. Shit happens. If it's a good film, but doesn't do as well as SF, and people on here start complaining, it's going to annoy me.
Preach this. Before Bond wasn't even considered a top-tier franchise, now with Skyfall it is, now it's up against the likes of Marvel, Star Wars, Hunger Games, Fast & Furious, and you can't just ignore that IMO when talking about marketing - when the next trailer/spot etc is gonna land.
Meh, it's cyclical.
Of course, the caveats are 1)me caving in to my Bond fandom (entirely possible) and 2)the trailer playing in front of a film I see at the cinema.
It wasn't long after the teaser was approved that it debuted online, so expect an imminent release...
Friday would be awesome, but I think we'd know by know. Then again...if it's classified now they surely are planning to have it in theatres with Ant-Man, so it is a possibility given how the teaser debuted a week before it hit theatres with Furious 7. Either Friday or early next week.
Said above - Ant-Man. The fact that it was claasified already means they intend to place it there, and if they were to wait for say Mission Impossible I don't see them classifying until a few weeks from now.
It was a long wait!! Can't wait!! :-) :-)
I think it will be BEFORE next Friday since next Friday (or Thursday even) is I presume when it starts playing in theatres with Ant-Man.
I.e. any time between now and next Friday.
Perfect. My predictions seem to come true again :-). Once attached to "Ant-Man", the full theatrical trailer of "SPECTRE" will be fully distributed, so it can be seen on most screenings of "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" and "The Man From UNCLE".
And I think audiences for all these three films,
"Ant-Man"
"M:I - Rogue Nation"
"UNCLE",
are very much comparable to James Bond audiences. So would be perfect promotion/marketing decision :-).
Not this Friday, but I'd say Friday next week, July 17th :-). And that basically is two weeks earlier as the premiere of the SF full theatrical trailer back in 2012.
Yeah but the norm is to release online BEFORE it starts showing in theatres. And the first screenings that would have the trailer would be next Thursday - so ideally it has to be before then. So either tomorrow, or early next week.
Okay, let me tell you something:
"Aaaaaarghh" 8-}
Yes, exactly what I meant
My prediction above, from early June ;-).
Whatttt.....is this :P???