Lionsgate "Power Rangers" - - - - - - - - - Part 18

[momotaros]

Surprised how badly it's doing in South America for one. Seeing how popular Becky G is there.

saban is gonna push u.s. toy sales and concentrate on the tv series, might even make power rangers t.v. shows as mature as time force or even push a cw or netflix show, but no movie

I don't think the tv show as much life left either. It's doing 0.5 or 0.6 right now.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

power rangers needed a $200,000,000 budget

It definitely needed more than what it had.

 

[kguillou]

Man those OS numbers are depressing. I guess the film really did need another set piece or two. Such a shame. It was a really charming film. Way, way better than Bayformers and the TMNT films.

Well, the most I'm hoping for at this point is getting an extended director's cut on blu-ray. I'd be very interested in seeing a longer version of the film.

 

[kj2005dawn]

Saban now knows he has alot of adult fans in america of power rangers, we can know speculate about a mature power rangers tv show apart from the nick show

who picks it up

CW or Netflix

 

[kj2005dawn]

you can do a cw show where the zords appear in the season premiere, mid season finale, and season finale, or a 13 episode netflix show

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Well all that's left to do is see how it performs in it's remaining overseas markets and see if it will be released in China. The story isn't over yet but the start of the story isn't very good.

 

[The Big G]

Saban now knows he has alot of adult fans in america of power rangers, we can know speculate about a mature power rangers tv show apart from the nick show

who picks it up

CW or Netflix

I'd personally rather they do an animated version of the Boom Comics. But that's just me.

 

[Matt]

power rangers needed a $200,000,000 budget

If it had that budget, it would never break even.

I find myself agreeing with a review I read earlier in the week: this source material would be better suited as a CW TV show that targets a certain demographic and sticks with it. Instead, it tried to be everything to everyone. It tried to be nostalgic fun for millennials, while also seemingly embarrassed of the source material. It tried to be light and airy for the child audience, while also taking itself way too seriously. I am sure there was a middle ground that could've been reached, but this movie just never got there. It tried to be too much for too many. Say what you will about TMNT and Transformers. Those movies knew their audiences. This movie didn't even have an audience in mind. It just cast too big of a net. And in my mind, that made it a bit of incoherent mess.

 

[momotaros]

Well all that's left to do is see how it performs in it's remaining overseas markets and see if it will be released in China. The story isn't over yet but the start of the story isn't very good.

I'm honestly shocked how badly it's doing in South America for one. South America like Peru and Brazil. Love Super Sentai/PR.

 

[2kt09]

The $110 million-budgeted origin story, which offered a darker, more grounded and far more expensive variation on the ongoing kid-targeted television show, snagged a rock-solid $40.5m debut weekend. That's a 2.7x weekend multiplier from a $14.96m Friday. Said Friday included a $3.6m Thursday, meaning that the Dean Israelite-directed release earned 8.8% of its debut weekend via Thursday previews.

Power Rangers proved to be just a little leggier on its debut weekend than Pacific Rim ($14m Friday/$$37m weekend) and the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ($25m/$65m), but a little less leggy than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows ($12.4m/$35.3m). The multiplier and the Thursday preview percentage is right in line with a Phase Two Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel, which meant that the film performed like a newfangled superhero franchise. The film played 60% male, 50% over-25 and 30% under-18. The overall CinemaScore grade was an "A," but those under 18 gave it an "A+." Imagine that, a Power Rangers movie playing best with the actual target audience of the actual show.

-Forbes

 

[The Apocalypse]

I found the movie to be really fun. Was it great? Not at all but nevertheless, it brought me back to my childhood. I thought it had a very solid balance of humor, very corny dialogue and serious tone. I walked out of the movie glad I decided to go see it.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm honestly shocked how badly it's doing in South America for one. South America like Peru and Brazil. Love Super Sentai/PR.

I think problem is that the film just didn't look big in the trailers and frankly it isn't big. It has one big action scene with suspect CGI.

 

[Mysteryman]

If the first Bay produced Ninja Turtles get a sequel, so can this.

Yeah, but the Ninja Turtles sequel bombed.

 

[!Superman!]

in all these weeks i saw one tv spot in germany and that was 2 weeks ago. Whoever bought the rights for germany didnt care to promote it. Saw more spots for Ghost in the shell.

 

[kj2005dawn]

The issue comes when they go back to them for distribution of future movies. They sold the OS distribution rights for Insurgent and Allegiant at the same time by showing it could increase from the first one OS (when the series was just supposed to be a trilogy) but could not manage to convince the distributors a 3rd time for Ascendant.

 

[TeeKay]

I think problem is that the film just didn't look big in the trailers and frankly it isn't big. It has one big action scene with suspect CGI.

That whole 3rd act belonged in a different movie. Seriously, the cinematography was horrible. I couldn't see ****. People rag on Bay for his TF movies but at least he knows how to shoot action and keep the camera still. I was expecting to see some pacific Rim type camera angle where the director pulls out and shows scope. Too many cuts ugh it was frustrating.

 

[momotaros]

It's looking like it could do wore then F4 (111M) and TMNT Out of Shell OS (163M) numbers..

 

[kj2005dawn]

power rangers can do $250,000,000 - $300,000,000 max

 

[TeeKay]

One question. Who was the audience for this movie?

 

[Matt]

One question. Who was the audience for this movie?

PRECISELY! Transformers, TMNT, BvS, as bad as those movies are, they have an identity at least. The filmmakers knew what they were making and for whom it was being made. This movie lacks that. It all comes back to the old saying, when you try to please everyone, you please no one.

 

[harryoscop]

Concept art does look better than the final... IMO of course.

Agreed

 

[kj2005dawn]

my guess is kids and parents went to power rangers overseas, kids,teens , and adults saw power rangers, domestic

adults and teens overseas see power rangers as kiddie

 

[DarthSkywalker]

If it had that budget, it would never break even.

I find myself agreeing with a review I read earlier in the week: this source material would be better suited as a CW TV show that targets a certain demographic and sticks with it. Instead, it tried to be everything to everyone. It tried to be nostalgic fun for millennials, while also seemingly embarrassed of the source material. It tried to be light and airy for the child audience, while also taking itself way too seriously. I am sure there was a middle ground that could've been reached, but this movie just never got there. It tried to be too much for too many. Say what you will about TMNT and Transformers. Those movies knew their audiences. This movie didn't even have an audience in mind. It just cast too big of a net. And in my mind, that made it a bit of incoherent mess.

I said this was my fear months ago, and then the second trailer hit with a completely different tone and it basically confirmed it. Reading reviews you see a lot of contradictions about the tone, but it isn't the reviewers. It is the movie apparently.

Some here made went out of their way to describe all the fans they were trying to reach, and it always looked like a problem. Because it was all one big contradiction.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

power rangers needed a $200,000,000 budget

No it didn't. In terms of a look, it needed a director with real talent, who knows how to stretch a buck. But they did go with a cheapo studio.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It definitely needed more than what it had.

I feel like it kind of needed a lesser budget. This film did not feel like a 100mill film, I don't know even know where that money went. I feel like starting out they should've given the film 60-80million.