Someone on TDKR's Facebook Page proposed the idea of Christian Bale dressed as Batman for visit all the kids ho have been injured during the event. To let them know that bad guys will not get away with it.
Someone on TDKR's Facebook Page proposed the idea of Christian Bale dressed as Batman for visit all the kids ho have been injured during the event. To let them know that bad guys will not get away with it.
I was about to say good idea, but then I thought bad idea. TDKR's cast and crew need to distance themselves as much as possible from this trajedy. You don't want to relate the two if there is no need.
I don't mind if Bale went as Bale, but not Batman, no way.
Forget about distancing the movie. It is a bad idea because an actor dressed up as Batman telling victims of a tragic shooting that he'll make bad guys pay is a terrible idea.
Their song will change IF the numbers indicate underperformance.
Business. If the movie underperforms, business would be their valid reason. I'm not saying it is right, but it is valid for a company to try to salvage a release if possible.
That said, I think it is moot. The movie isn't going to perform as well as it would have now, but it will do well enough. This isn't going to deter enough people to cause Warners to pull it.
Warner Bros Seeing No ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Slowdown In Box Office Business: $71M Worldwide: $30.6M Midnights, $30M Pre-Sales, $10.4M International
By NIKKI FINKE | Friday July 20, 2012 @ 12:02pm PDT
EXCLUSIVE… FRIDAY 12 PM, 7TH UPDATE: Warner Bros sources tell me now they’re seeing no decrease in movie ticket grosses for The Dark Knight Rises. “What happened in Colorado is a tragedy, make no mistake about it. But East Coast numbers are coming in like nothing ever happened. We grossed half a million dollars by 10 AM just in Manhattan.” One reason for that is because most of today’s grosses, and a good portion of this weekend’s, consisted of $30M in pre-sales. So whether moviegoers show up or not to the theaters doesn’t matter: they still paid for their tickets. The real-time effect of the Aurora movie theater shooting likely won’t be felt at the box office until Saturday at the earliest and more likely Sunday and next week and next weekend as pre-release sales decrease. “One incident, as horrific as it is, does not necessarily cause people to want to change their patterns,” a Warner Bros exec explained to me. “Young people still want to go to movie theaters and they still want to see this movie.”
We can discuss multiple things at the same time.
Have you read Jessica Redfield's Twitter account? Her life was snuffed out at that movie. The happy, NHL loving, Texan Godmother-to-be had her life snuffed out at a showing of TDKR. I am not saying that the movie is responsible. I don't think anyone in this thread has said that. But I am not going to be able to watch the movie without thinking of how excited poor Jessica Redfield was and then her not being excited an hour later. I'm not blaming the movie, but the two events are now associated in a lot of people's minds.
Completely agree. I've been waiting for this movie for four years and I want to see it. This is a tragedy and all that but come on pulling the movie would be ridiculous.To be blunt....some here will call me a jerk for saying this....but if they pull it from theaters when I have already bought my tickets and arranged my whole schedule this weekend around attending TWO showings Saturday and Sunday with different people....I will be pissed off.
There is no valid reason for them to do this. None whatsoever.
It won't be "honoring the victims" to pull a movie from theaters that had nothing to do with why Holmes did what he did in the first place, and it would be giving him far wider-reaching influence than he deserves.
I like the idea of WB donating at least some of their opening week revenue to a fund set up in the victims' names, but pulling TDKR from the theaters would be a terrible idea.
I like the idea of WB donating at least some of their opening week revenue to a fund set up in the victims' names, but pulling TDKR from the theaters would be a terrible idea.
A lot of this is your fault for putting a face to one of the victims. Sure, this event might be in the back of one's mind when watching the movie now that the incident got national coverage, but snooping around the girl's Twitter page is just subjecting yourself to grief-porn and its' ultimately your fault if you can't watch the movie.
It will be in the back of my mind but I won't be
thinking of any victim specifically.
Who's twitter page?
Late to the party here.
The only reason I'll be thinking specifically of her is because I read her Twitter page and blog. Had I not, I'd be in the same boat as you. The tragedy would still be in my mind.