My Name Is Bruce...direct to theaters!!!!!YES!

[xwolverine2]

Coming To Theaters and More...



October 14, 2006 — Bruce Campbell fans...get ready...because "My Name is Bruce" will be getting a theatrical release. And not only that, it has already been screened. "IESB" has the scoop, talking to Dark Horse's Michael Richardson:

"We just got finished shooting My Name is Bruce starring Bruce Campbell and directed by Bruce and Bruce and I produced it together so you can say he had three different parts on it. We shot it down in Southern Oregon on a 20 day shoot roughly and it turned out amazing, we just screened the assembly yesterday and like I said earlier I think people were rolling on the floor, its really funny and Bruce basically plays himself and hes kidnapped off a B horror movie, Cave Alien 2 and hauled off to a small town in the middle of nowhere where they ask him to save them from the creature in the cemetery. He goes along with the gag, he thinks its a gag, what happens afterward is very funny but this is full of in-jokes and full of cast members from previous Bruce movies, this is every Bruce Campbell lovers, which I happen to be in that particular school, its every Bruce Campbell lovers dream movie. Its a riot, its really funny, everyone who loves Bruce Campbell is going to love this movie.

IESB: What are the odds we will see this movie on the big screen?

MR: Oh, we are definitely going with a theatrical release, our partner, Image Entertainment, not to be confused with the comic company, the DVD company, they are funding our independent line, they just recently saw the assembly and they loved it. Theres no doubt we are prepared, we are just going into post, and while in post we made the decision to go theatrical."

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JLBats]

I... don't really see how this will have an audience. It's basically an Internet fanboy wetdream, and very few people I've talked to in real life know who Bruce Campbell is... so a movie revolving almost exclusively around one great big, irony-soaked in-joke about him... seems doomed to failure.

 

[xwolverine2]

maybe it will be good.......... ever think of that?...lol

 

[JLBats]

maybe it will be good.......... ever think of that?...lol

It could be the greatest film ever made, it doesn't mean people will go see it.

You completely missed my point. I said nothing about quality. I merely asked who this film is appealing to. Internet geeks. Now, how much of the general population is made up of hardcore Internet geeks?

We've seen what this kind of thing results in with Snakes On A Plane, which had Internet hysteria but much lower numbers than expected. And SOAP appealed to a much wider audience than My Name Is Bruce does. It really displayed why it's not a good idea to pander to the Internet community; there's a huge, huge disconnect between Internet subculture and the general population.

I just don't see how this can pull in a mass audience, to be honest.

 

[CAH]

It's Boomstick Boy.




It WILL be good.

 

[ampersand]

I completely agree with JLBats on this one. It will not do well in theatres.

 

[Flexo]

The budget was probably spit, so making a profit at the box office shouldn't be amazingly difficult.

 

[Shifty]

It will probably be NY, LA maybe a few other markets but nothing serious and I don't think they have visions of making the top ten. Just enough to make back the costs and so that the some fans can see it on the big screen.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I'll be first in line for this.

 

[xwolverine2]

its not like the movie needs enough money for a sequel........lol

 

[O'Haire]

I wanted this to go straight to DVD. Because it's the only way I will get to see it. Now I will have to wait even longer.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I wanted this to go straight to DVD. Because it's the only way I will get to see it. Now I will have to wait even longer.

Why can't you just see it in theaters?

 

[cryptic name]

I... don't really see how this will have an audience. It's basically an Internet fanboy wetdream, and very few people I've talked to in real life know who Bruce Campbell is... so a movie revolving almost exclusively around one great big, irony-soaked in-joke about him... seems doomed to failure.

i could give a f**k if it fails as long as i get to see it on the big screen. i think bruce has enough of a following for it to at least make its money back, and maybe enough people will want to see based on the "B-movie star fights real monster" premise.

 

[manicmyk]

I think this is the first theatrical attempt by Image Entertainment so they may try for a wide release. They specialize in DVD distribution so its possible that they will be offering sweet deals to theatre owners to get it in since it is their first try.

 

[Rac]

I hope this comes to some festival in Finland. There's no way this would get a theatrical release at Finland.

 

[Dangerous]

I... don't really see how this will have an audience. It's basically an Internet fanboy wetdream, and very few people I've talked to in real life know who Bruce Campbell is... so a movie revolving almost exclusively around one great big, irony-soaked in-joke about him... seems doomed to failure.

R u a ******?
the ED films are wildley popular w/ more than just internet geeks.
Everyone knows who BC is.

 

[JLBats]

R u a ******?

*dies from the irony*

the ED films are wildley popular w/ more than just internet geeks.
Everyone knows who BC is.

Yes, the ED films are fairly popular, however they are not popular with the wider movie going audience.

And no, not everyone knows who Bruce Campbell is. If I went right now and asked everyone in my family who Bruce Campbell is, not one of them would know. A good 80% of my circle of friends probably wouldn't either. It's not that I'm not glad this is being released in theatres. I just don't see how the studio justified it.

 

[Dangerous]

A good 80% of my circle of friends probably wouldn't either.

Maybe thats cause 'tards hang out w/ 'tards.
My friends are cool and know exactly who BC is.
The end.

 

[JLBats]

Maybe thats cause 'tards hang out w/ 'tards.
My friends are cool and know exactly who BC is.
The end.

Regardless of your impeccably unearned *******ry, which I'm ignoring for now, you've brought up a good point.

A good percentage of the audience ARE those "******s" who don't spend time on AICN.

 

[Dangerous]

Hahahahahahahahah the vast majority of the population are not medically ******ed I shall thank you to note, they also know who Brucey baby is

 

[JLBats]

I'm sorry, are you hooked up to like... some kind of electrodes that make you like this?

You're consistently missing my point and your fandom of Bruce Campbell has clouded your judgement on this.

Even if 100% of the population knew who Bruce Campbell was, which is certainly not true, what portion of that audience are big enough fans of him to go see what appears to be an AICN wetdream?

It's just not something with mass media appeal, dude.

 

[Dangerous]

hmmmmmmmmmmm, but crappy horror is in vogue right, see al the crap remakes like TCM et al thus people would also like to go watch a horror that is good.
Capishe?

 

[enterthemadness]

I'm sure the studio has a reason to put this in theaters. Theater movies tend to do better on DVD than DTV crap films (not all DTV is crap but most is).

It's like the Weinstein/Dimension releasing Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker limited. This movie has a wide release feel...swear this company sucks.

 

[JLBats]

hmmmmmmmmmmm, but crappy horror is in vogue right, see al the crap remakes like TCM et al thus people would also like to go watch a horror that is good.
Capishe?

Not exactly. The reason those horror movies make money is because they HAVE mass media appeal. Something like this, regardless of actual quality, has one fairly specific niche market: Bruce Campbell fans.

 

[Dangerous]

Everybody loves BC tho, end of story.