Online Press, Tidbits, Reports [NOT Reviews]

RSS
Email

0 Kudo

Author	Comment
Jo		#181	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2382 01/01/09 01:59 fair dinkum	I thought all the posters were supposed to have been approved by Bazmark first? I guess because the movie encompasses several genres ( comedy, action/adventure, romance, drama, war) that it is quite difficult to come up with a definitive hook for the movie...which also made it difficult to target specific demographics. Far easier to market a mindless comedy/musical or an action movie or a straight drama.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
icelemt38		#182	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2591 01/01/09 01:59 fair dinkum	Yea I was pointing at Fox in terms of marketing prior to the movie, and its decision on pulling it off all most of the screens now. But I do realize that with a movie like this, marketing must be hell but even Baz pointed out that it just wasn't marketed right.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
aktorgirl	MEDIA: Images / Magazines / Newspaper [release]	#183	[url]	[-]
Posts: 902 01/01/09 01:59 fair dinkum	Came across this one earlier tonight. Australia a US letdown for Nicole Kidman Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:15pm AEDT Twentieth Century Fox appears to have given up on director Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia, at least in North America, and is hoping that foreign sales will rescue the costly picture. The movie has sold just $US44.3 million worth of tickets at the US and Canadian box office after five weekends, and is shaping up to be the latest in a line of disappointments for its star Nicole Kidman. The News Corp-owned studio says it hopes Australia will reach $US50m in the US. The project cost $US130m and movie theatres generally keep about half of the gross. "We were hoping to do more in the US, but it's tough. There's a lot of competition," said Bert Livingston, Fox's senior vice-president of domestic distribution. Adding insult to injury, Australia failed to get any nomination for the Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards. Fox had counted on the recognition to boost its Oscar hopes and to expand the movie beyond its core audience of older women. This past Christmas holiday weekend, one of the busiest of the year, Australia tumbled 10 places to number 19 with four-day sales of $US1.3m, according to tracking firm Media By Numbers. It played in 711 theatres, down from 2,212 the weekend before. Australia is doing respectably overseas, with ticket sales of about $US46m from 51 countries, Fox said. The top market, naturally, is Australia with $US16m ($23m) after five weekends. It opened at number one in Spain, France and Germany last weekend, but at number three in Britain. Edit: It's still playing here in San Diego. So there.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
narrows101		#184	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6010 01/01/09 05:07 moderator Drover's Damsel	aktorgirl wrote: Came across this one earlier tonight. http://www.abc.net.au/new...es/2008/12/31/2457151.htm href="http:///" target=_blank>Australia a US letdown for Nicole Kidman Posted Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:15pm AEDT Twentieth Century Fox appears to have given up on director Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia, at least in North America, and is hoping that foreign sales will rescue the costly picture. The movie has sold just $US44.3 million worth of tickets at the US and Canadian box office after five weekends, and is shaping up to be the latest in a line of disappointments for its star Nicole Kidman. The News Corp-owned studio says it hopes Australia will reach $US50m in the US. The project cost $US130m and movie theatres generally keep about half of the gross. "We were hoping to do more in the US, but it's tough. There's a lot of competition," said Bert Livingston, Fox's senior vice-president of domestic distribution. Adding insult to injury, Australia failed to get any nomination for the Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards. Fox had counted on the recognition to boost its Oscar hopes and to expand the movie beyond its core audience of older women. This past Christmas holiday weekend, one of the busiest of the year, Australia tumbled 10 places to number 19 with four-day sales of $US1.3m, according to tracking firm Media By Numbers. It played in 711 theatres, down from 2,212 the weekend before. Australia is doing respectably overseas, with ticket sales of about $US46m from 51 countries, Fox said. The top market, naturally, is Australia with $US16m ($23m) after five weekends. It opened at number one in Spain, France and Germany last weekend, but at number three in Britain. Edit: It's still playing here in San Diego. So there. Yeah, it's playing one time a day in both the movie theaters by me. I think with all the big releases and expansions over Christmas, movies that had been out for a while had no choice but to drop screens to make way for them.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
Hengist		#185	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1166 01/01/09 05:10 fair dinkum	Maybe once the Christmas releases have died down, it will make a slight comeback. After all, who goes to see "Four Christmasses" in January? ...without Baz and his crazy vision, I don't think it'd be happening.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
DiamondDog		#186	[url]	[-]
Posts: 258 01/01/09 08:18	I agree, the christmas film sales will have come down and people can start to pay attention to those that aren't as festive. But touch my tears with your lips Touch my world with your fingertips And we can have forever And we can love forever Forever is our today -Who Wants To Live Forever? Queen
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
Hengist		#187	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1168 01/01/09 08:32 fair dinkum	It's gained 54 theatres for the next week. ...without Baz and his crazy vision, I don't think it'd be happening.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
DiamondDog		#188	[url]	[-]
Posts: 259 01/01/09 08:39	Wow, nice. I'm going to see it again next week with some different people, it'll be interesting to see how many are there. Thanks for letting me know by the way, I've missed a lot. But touch my tears with your lips Touch my world with your fingertips And we can have forever And we can love forever Forever is our today -Who Wants To Live Forever? Queen
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
icelemt38		#189	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2595 01/01/09 10:55 fair dinkum	I just noticed that because all of a sudden Australia is back on where I live.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
DiamondDog		#190	[url]	[-]
Posts: 263 01/01/09 10:59	Will you be going to see it again? But touch my tears with your lips Touch my world with your fingertips And we can have forever And we can love forever Forever is our today -Who Wants To Live Forever? Queen
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
RHPS Magenta		#191	[url]	[-]
Posts: 17398 01/01/09 12:05 Mistress KATE Wild	Hengist wrote: It's gained 54 theatres for the next week. Is that because of the release in new countries or do you mean in the USA? I was curious if they might add it to some more theatres after the holiday movies die down Suckerlove ~ Moulin Goldmine ~ LJ ~ Spectacular!Â² MB LastFM ~ JRMfansite MB ~ australiamovie.net just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
icelemt38		#192	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2597 01/01/09 14:02 fair dinkum	Thats the increase in theaters for US, it made a lot of money for only 700 something theaters during Christmas so I'm glad they're increasing it again. I'm just pissed they didn't keep it at a higher number last week because then I would have bought 5 tickets for it, lol. I probably will see it again now that its showing close.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
Jo		#193	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2387 01/01/09 14:42 fair dinkum	Also, something I thought I might have misread previously. I had a bookmark for theaters in Manhattan close to where I had stayed and had occasionally checked the site if they had been reducing the number of cinemas and screenings. In one particular cinema ( upper East Side - 64th Street and 2nd Ave)), I was surprised to see that this week, it was back to 4 screenings a day -- back from the one screening left over for most Manhattan cinemas. Or did I just misread the decrease previously?
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
icelemt38		#194	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2598 01/01/09 14:56 fair dinkum	I think you're right Jo, it wasn't playing ANYWHERE within like 40 miles of where I live and that includes 2 big cities San Jose and San Francisco, and now its back to 1-2 screenings where I am and back in some in SF and SJ.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
Jo		#195	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2388 01/01/09 15:07 fair dinkum	LOL - guess what? I checked the page again, and now there is another cinema ( in the suburbs) which has restored their screenings to 4! Not so the last time I checked. Hope this bodes for something promising!
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
icelemt38		#196	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2600 01/01/09 15:25 fair dinkum	I think Fox is surprised by how well it still did over Christmas when they probably thought it was totally losing steam. Because still making 2+M in just 700 theaters is good stuff 6 weeks in.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
RHPS Magenta		#197	[url]	[-]
Posts: 17401 01/02/09 00:08 Mistress KATE Wild	I love that for once the rest of the world is taking the lead, not the other way around. Suckerlove ~ Moulin Goldmine ~ LJ ~ Spectacular!Â² MB LastFM ~ JRMfansite MB ~ australiamovie.net just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
narrows101		#198	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6017 01/02/09 03:29 moderator Drover's Damsel	RHPS Magenta wrote: I love that for once the rest of the world is taking the lead, not the other way around. The only "problem" (if that's the right word) about the rest of the world is that no matter what a movie makes it's usually only considered a "hit" if it makes money in the US - at least by the standards of the writers, bloggers, etc. So if a movie doesn't make money in the US all you will read is that it's a "disappointment" or "flop". We may know differently, but the vast majority do not and and they usually believe what they read and associate it with the actor or actress.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
RHPS Magenta		#199	[url]	[-]
Posts: 17405 01/02/09 03:46 Mistress KATE Wild	lol, I think we're all beyond what other people think at this stage, yeah? But I agree, it would be nice. ...never know it could strangely pick up a very late audience...doubtful, but it could. After that recent imdb post I was looking at stats for Titanic in Australia and it had indeed made less than Australia in the first 6 weeks, it was only AFTER this amount of time it seemed to start doing crazy good business...so who knows. Suckerlove ~ Moulin Goldmine ~ LJ ~ Spectacular!Â² MB LastFM ~ JRMfansite MB ~ australiamovie.net just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote
Jo		#200	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2395 01/02/09 17:28 fair dinkum	Check out the last few days ( last week) of per screen average stats from BoxOfficeMojo http://www.boxofficemojo....aily&id=australia.htm The trend is rising rather well...although this may be because BOM has not updated the number of screens ( still at 711). But the estimated takings for the last two days are promising. Could it also be because some cinemas have restored the number of screenings per day?
Interact My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Invite Blocking Ignore User's Posts	Reply Quote

<< Previous Topic Next Topic >>

Yuku free message boards

Online Press, Tidbits, Reports [NOT Reviews]

Quick Reply