DACrowe
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Hm, I think this will underperform. Scream 4 just did spectacularly mediocre numbers and while AP was always more popular, they're very similar and appeal(ed) to the same audience. Teenagers of the mid-late '90s and early 2000s. They've all grown up and have careers or marriage or even kids now. The target audience is still ideally (for the studios) teenagers. But do teenagers care what the 25-35 year olds watched at their age? Scream 4 seems to say no. A different genre, but AP4 will be projected bigger than S4 and likely find proportionately disappointing results.
It doesn't help that AP's brand has been run into the ground far more than Scream's was with all those direct-to-DVD movies. I imagine the horny 14-15 year old set (the original base of the AP films) knows the franchise as the crap movies that Comedy Central runs. Again, this is not a reflection on the quality of returning to the well, just what I think its chances for success seem to be.
It doesn't help that AP's brand has been run into the ground far more than Scream's was with all those direct-to-DVD movies. I imagine the horny 14-15 year old set (the original base of the AP films) knows the franchise as the crap movies that Comedy Central runs. Again, this is not a reflection on the quality of returning to the well, just what I think its chances for success seem to be.