Lionsgate "Power Rangers" - - - - - - - - - - - Part 20

[Wildcard]

At this point, I don't see any market, even China, saving PR. After 4.4 weeks, only $130 million has been accrued. That means people all around don't care for it and don't have enough interest to go see it. I don't see that sentiment suddenly changes once it opens in China. Like I See Spidey said, GOTG 2 may not do numbers exactly like FOTF in China, but it'll put a massive dent in PR's performing power. Besides, GOTG is already an established and known property. This outing was an attempt to expand on PR's fan base. That attempt failed because most don't think the movie was anything special.

I see no evidence that China will save this one.

 

[Mike_D202]

I wanna see everybody's jaws drop when they green light the sequel

 

[Wildcard]

I wanna see everybody's jaws drop when they green light the sequel

My jaw wouldn't really drop and I'm sure the same can be said for others. Plenty of movies that have underperformed have went on to get sequels. Still doesn't change the fact that this is a flop and a sequel is likely to do just as bad or worse.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I want my jaw to drop but I don't think it will be.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It's Lionsgate, my jaw wouldn't drop. If you see what Ninja Turtles 2 did though you'll see that the movie is going to do much worse the second time out. It's probably in for a 50% worldwide drop from the first. But it's not my money, if they want to lose money as opposed to taking the money and running then what do I care?

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, we are seriously already looking at Allegiant like numbers. And we know that franchise is dead in the water. Short of Power Rangers doing Pacific Rim like numbers, I just don't see any reasonable justification for a sequel.

And make no doubt, I am HYPED for Pac Rim 2, but I can acknowledge that there is no logical reason for it to get made.

 

[TeeKay]

Pacific Rim 2 will probably make more than its predecessor. I'm ready for that one. More Kaiju vs Jaegars.

 

[Wildcard]

Pacific Rim 2 will probably make more than its predecessor. I'm ready for that one. More Kaiju vs Jaegars.

Pacific Rim 2 will probably be one of those rare cases where both on the home front and internationally the sequel garners the interest during its theatrical run that the original should've gotten.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

Everyon SABAN needs Your Money and more importantly Hollywood needs your money to greenlit Power Rangers 2.

Go Go this week to donate to the Power Rangers fund by giving as much as you can to theaters showing Power Rangers.

All your money can feed the exects at Hollywood to make dreams come true for Power Rangers 2

 

[PeterBenParker]

I really want a sequel but I'm afraid it'd be similar to TMNT2 in terms of 'returns'.

 

[TheVileOne]

The popularity for a new movie franchise might've been over-estimated as well.

I'm not ready to say a sequel will never happen. The movie didn't outright bomb, so they still might try to push one through. We'll see.

 

[Bran The Man]

They ****ed up big time. This whole slow burn character study they were trying to do didn't work because they didnt have a strong enough director and script. A franchise known for its martial arts and giant robot fights and they leave it all towards the end? Bit them in the ass for sure.

Agreed. This was the main problem I had with the movie. It didn't feel like Power Rangers until the very end. I felt they should have at least one fight near the beginning or in the middle in the suits, but I guess that would have messed up the plot (and the character study).

 

[TheVileOne]

The one time a zord gets busted out before the final battle, it's for a comedic joy ride that gets him in trouble.

 

[Mysteryman]

Everyon SABAN needs Your Money and more importantly Hollywood needs your money to greenlit Power Rangers 2.

Go Go this week to donate to the Power Rangers fund by giving as much as you can to theaters showing Power Rangers.

All your money can feed the exects at Hollywood to make dreams come true for Power Rangers 2

Saban might need my money,
But to me. it doesn't sound like he made a quality product. So, he can forget it .

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I really want a sequel but I'm afraid it'd be similar to TMNT2 in terms of 'returns'.

If they make a sequel then you win because you got a sequel. You aren't going to lose any money.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This is interesting. I was looking up TLJ numbers and I saw the Twitter numbers for PR. It does not seem that the movie got a lot of love. The pos/neg ratio from the last two days was rather poor.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/26072/power-rangers

 

[Alien Anal]

Everyon SABAN needs Your Money and more importantly Hollywood needs your money to greenlit Power Rangers 2.

Go Go this week to donate to the Power Rangers fund by giving as much as you can to theaters showing Power Rangers.

All your money can feed the exects at Hollywood to make dreams come true for Power Rangers 2

Why do you keep posting this?
Is it your thing?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Why do you keep posting this?
Is it your thing?

I think it is a joke.

 

[Reel-Man]

This is interesting. I was looking up TLJ numbers and I saw the Twitter numbers for PR. It does not seem that the movie got a lot of love. The pos/neg ratio from the last two days was rather poor.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/26072/power-rangers

Isn't the first number positive and last number negative? At least that's how I'm reading their chart as the box legend says above it (POS:NEG with first number being positive to the negative number).

Why do you keep posting this?
Is it your thing?

Because he likes trolling.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Isn't the first number positive and last number negative? At least that's how I'm reading their chart as the box legend says above it (POS:NEG with first number being positive to the negative number).



Because he likes trolling.

Yes. Single digit positives is not good. Especially with so few tweets. And this is after release.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/29004/beauty-and-the-beast

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

This is interesting. I was looking up TLJ numbers and I saw the Twitter numbers for PR. It does not seem that the movie got a lot of love. The pos/neg ratio from the last two days was rather poor.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/26072/power-rangers

Sometimes different franchises are front-loaded and have low multipliers but that doesn't mean that the film was poorly received but there's usually proof that the word of mouth was good. I just haven't seen any proof of this good word of mouth some people claim. The movie only opened with 40 million, if the word of mouth was good there was no way it wouldn't have acquired at least a 2.5 multiplier.

I mean nobody is claiming that Ghost in the Shell is having good word of mouth because we know it isn't but for some reason people can't look beyond the mostly unreliable cinemascore and just acknowledge that people just didn't like Power Rangers all that much. I like the movie so it's not like I'm saying that nobody should like it, I'm saying that obviously not enough people liked it because it would not have dropped off the face of the earth the way it did. Now internationally it just seems like people weren't interested at all so that's a whole different kettle of fish.

 

[Reel-Man]

Yes. Single digit positives is not good. Especially with so few tweets. And this is after release.

http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/29004/beauty-and-the-beast

Ah I see what you mean. I thought you were saying that it was 7 negative to 1 positive. But you meant in terms of quantity. Well today looks like it's 20:1 out of 653 tweets compared to 7:1 out of 5141 tweets (at moment of writing). Thanks for the link, pretty cool data.

Edit: Spoke too soon.

 

[kguillou]

Guys, I really enjoyed the movie and I'm probably gonna buy this on blu ray but this is a out and out financial flop. If I was a Lionsgate exec I would laugh at Saban for even trying to spin this as a success. It has not even made its budget back or broken even. What incentive would the studio have to greenlight the sequel? And people, remember, TMNT 1 made money. They generated a profit. TMNT 2 was the flop hence why we've not heard about TMNT 3. Pacific Rim generated a profit (a small one nonetheless). We cant compare this to those movies.

 

[TheVileOne]

Pacific Rim didn't do great, but it at least broke $100 million domestic and made $300 million overseas, something Power Rangers won't come close to sniffing.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Pacific Rim did not turn a profit. But it has the very lucky fate of belonging to a studio looking for franchises, one which looks the idea of anything that might have a foothold in China.

Lionsgate might make a sequel here if Saban is willing to deal and China is decent. Hell even if China isn't decent. But it would be against conventional wisdom like Pacific Rim.

On another note, reading some Power Rangers fan boards. Yeah, reality isn't a friend to many there. And I don't mean about a sequel, but about how well recieved the movie was and the reason for the low box office take.