Hannah Montana vs. Wolverine!

[Super_Ludacris]

What, like the adverts on the London Underground and the buses for the Channel and all its shows werent obvious enough? (well I go to London on business trips like 5 times and I noticed it a lot around London on the tubes and buses in Central last month)

 

[X-Maniac]

What, like the adverts on the London Underground and the buses for the Channel and all its shows werent obvious enough? (well I go to London on business trips like 5 times and I noticed it a lot around London on the tubes and buses in Central last month)

Like everyone in the UK lives in London and travels on the tube train service.

 

[danoyse]

You're assuming I get Disney Channel UK.

You mean you haven't been following the Suite Life of Zack and Cody??

It must be a satellite/cable channel, it certainly isn't a free channel. The free ones are enough for me! I can hardly find anything to watch as it is!

I've noticed that the big Disney Channel cable shows are as big over there as they are here (High School Musical did quite well in the ratings as it did here), so Hannah Montana is not specifically a dumb American thing. It's a dumb worldwide thing.

This could be a good move - all the horrid kids will go to see Hannah Montana and we won't get them in the Wolverine auditoriums! Yay!

Hopefully...although most of my friends have Hannah-crazed kids, and they're far from horrid. It's certainly not my thing, but the kid is talented.

 

[M.O.Steel]

don't underestimate hannah montana...she is much popular than lizzy was. and this is the fourth x-men movie. happy feet beat casino royale.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

Like everyone in the UK lives in London and travels on the tube train service.

Sure feels like it when your on the 8:30 AM train to Liverpool Street or Tottenham Court Road....god damn and I thought the NYC trains and DC Metro is a grind.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

don't underestimate hannah montana...she is much popular than lizzy was. and this is the fourth x-men movie. happy feet beat casino royale.

This is so sig-worthy, Im advocating a movement.

 

[X-Maniac]

This is so sig-worthy, Im advocating a movement.

A bowel movement!

 

[Super_Ludacris]

A bowel movement!

Leave your post-lunch issues out of this thread fat boy!

 

[SuperT]

Yea, I'm in with the crowd that says that this won't have too much of a dent on the Wolvie movie.

Both movies are catering towards two completely different demographics.

 

[X-Maniac]

Sure feels like it when your on the 8:30 AM train to Liverpool Street or Tottenham Court Road....god damn and I thought the NYC trains and DC Metro is a grind.

All underground trains are a hot, airless 'grind' of claustrophobia and sweaty people who are terrified to make eye contact. It's an endurance test.

But we don't all live in London or anywhere near it. Although the UK is relatively small, it has many places that are a long way outside London and which have no affinity with London at all. I know London is the city Americans know best (sometimes the only UK city they know), but there are other places.

 

[Catman]

It's called counterprogramming - the mothers with the girls can go see this and the guys can go see Wolverine.

But that's the problem. I'm guessing that Wolverine will be PG-13. So with that rating you can expect families going to see this movie. Even though its not a "family" movie. So originally mom, dad, and the kids would have gone. Now mom and the female child will go see Hannah Montana and dad the boys will go see Wolverine. It's affecting the box office. Wolverine WILL win the weekend. There's no doubt about that, but the movie will now make a few million less than it could have. And then the following week you got Star Trek.

This is just like when X2 was released on the same day as the Lizzie McGuire movie.

You can't compare Hannah Montana to Lizzie McGuire. Thats like comparing Ninja Turtles to Street Sharks.

 

[JohnRico]

If Disney really wants to destroy Wolverine they should also release High School Musical 3 on this weekend then Wolverine would be ****ed

 

[Catman]

If Disney really wants to destroy Wolverine they should also release High School Musical 3 on this weekend then Wolverine would be ****ed

Zac Efron is no match for Wolverine.

 

[X-Maniac]

I've noticed that the big Disney Channel cable shows are as big over there as they are here (High School Musical did quite well in the ratings as it did here), so Hannah Montana is not specifically a dumb American thing. It's a dumb worldwide thing.

I really don't think Hannah is a global phenomenon. It may be the latest US phenomenon... but not here. American shows are hit and miss here - if they're so American that we don't identify with them, then they don't do well. Some things take off, some don't.

Hopefully...although most of my friends have Hannah-crazed kids, and they're far from horrid. It's certainly not my thing, but the kid is talented.

Hopefully all the kids who normally irritate me during a movie will be watching Hannah instead! t:

 

[JohnRico]

Zac Efron is no match for Wolverine.

No big the big fan bases of Hannah Montana & High School Musical are. Hugh Jackman would be begging for mercy

 

[Catman]

Jackman is a better song & dance man than Efron anyway.

 

[danoyse]

I really don't think Hannah is a global phenomenon. It may be the latest US phenomenon... but not here. American shows are hit and miss here - if they're so American that we don't identify with them, then they don't do well. Some things take off, some don't.

Yeah, but this one's a hit. In fact, Disney Channel Worldwide is restructuring it's entire management team to expand the business into other overseas markets just based on the success of Hannah Montana and High School Musical in Europe. Her album went gold in the UK with over 100,000 copies sold, and she's touring there this year.

Just google "Hannah Montana UK" and you'll find the same madness that you find here. I was down in Disney World in December and saw plenty of British kids buying up the merchandise in the stores there.

High School Musical was such a monster success in the UK (1.2 million viewers in the first showing), and they're opening the stage musical in the West End, that Hannah can't be far behind in popularity.

 

[X-Maniac]

Yeah, but this one's a hit. In fact, Disney Channel Worldwide is restructuring it's entire management team to expand the business into other overseas markets just based on the success of Hannah Montana and High School Musical in Europe. Her album went gold in the UK with over 100,000 copies sold, and she's touring there this year.

Just google "Hannah Montana UK" and you'll find the same madness that you find here. I was down in Disney World in December and saw plenty of British kids buying up the merchandise in the stores there.

High School Musical was such a monster success in the UK (1.2 million viewers in the first showing), and they're opening the stage musical in the West End, that Hannah can't be far behind in popularity.

That may be but i work in mainstream media and have never heard of it, though I am known for having my finger on the pulse of popculture. It can't have hit big yet.

I'm not doubting that it has a growing following, but it's not a household name at this time. Maybe the families and teenage girls know differently but beyond their world, I don't think it's yet a name on everyone's lips.

With any luck, parents can shove their kids in to watch Hannah and then enjoy the more adult Wolverine at the same time!

 

[Angamb]

Is nice to know Wolverine will have competition during release weeks, hehe.

 

[Rated-X]

Hm Blah!!!

 

[Celestial]

High School Musical was such a monster success in the UK (1.2 million viewers in the first showing), and they're opening the stage musical in the West End, that Hannah can't be far behind in popularity.

1.2 million isn't a lot. It might be good for a kids programme but not for a general audience.
For example, the australian soap, Neighbours, has just moved channels and still achieved an audience of 2.3 million for a tea-time audience.
UK ratings roundup.

I don't see the problem. Hannah Mont

 

[Đeadpool]

ha ha, as if HM could evan come the slightist bit close to the Wolverine movie, Wolvie will stomp her like a bug

 

[danoyse]

1.2 million isn't a lot. It might be good for a kids programme but not for a general audience.
For example, the australian soap, Neighbours, has just moved channels and still achieved an audience of 2.3 million for a tea-time audience.
UK ratings roundup.

I don't see the problem. Hannah Mont

Sorry, I meant kids program. It's the highest rated movie on Disney Channel UK, and that and the success of that and HM are apparently what's bringing the Disney Channel to start expanding into more foreign markets.

 

[YJ1]

*slaps Disney*

Why's everyone ganging up on Wolvie? He has to battle Hannah Montanna opening weekend, and then JJ Abrams Star Trek the next week???

Fake Kirk is doomed. Wolvie will gut that film. As for Hannah Montanna, who cares? Wolverine wasn't going to draw the teeny or tiny girl demographic anyway. It'll be a big film but it won't take much out of Wolvie's box office.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

ha ha, as if HM could evan come the slightist bit close to the Wolverine movie, Wolvie will stomp her like a bug

I think you may be underestimating Hannah Montana's popularity. It might very well make more than Wolverine, but I don't think that it'll affect it.

Wolverine isn't aimed for the same folks the Hannah Montana film will be, of course. And, most likely, any kids that want to see Wolverine probably couldn't care less about Billy Ray Cyrus' spawn.