Record start for X3 dvd.

[antariksh]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/x-mennews.php?id=4775

I am confude but didn't X2 sell more than 3 million copies on first day!!

I don't know man.

I am hoping X3 can do $150+ million in DVD sales and $40+ in rentals so that we can get a sequel X4.

 

[bosef982]

See, for me, when they do these conditional record breakers, it says that it didn't do AS WELL as they wanted. I mean, X3 has the record for most sales sold in October....uh, okay?

Does it also have record DVD sales for a DVD released in October with a blue cover? Or does it have the record breaking DVD numbers of a film produced by Brett Ratner?

When you have to layer on conditionals to make something look successful, it probably wasn't in the first place. If you can't say, X3 sold the most DVDs in its first week on sale then any movie ever -- they it's accomplished something. But I could take any movie -- piece of crap or good -- and slap a conditional "record factor" on it and make it look great.

 

[Hugh'sMrs]

It's having record sales because people are buying multiple copies trying to find one with all the deleted scenes.

 

[SuperHeroHype]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/x-mennews.php?id=4775

I am confude but didn't X2 sell more than 3 million copies on first day!!

I don't know man.

I am hoping X3 can do $150+ million in DVD sales and $40+ in rentals so that we can get a sequel X4.

Read carefully please, it's the record for October. X2 came out in November.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It's having record sales because people are buying multiple copies trying to find one with all the deleted scenes.

The majority of buyers dont even know about the 10/21 scene mix-up. Just peple who come on here and surf the internet for this movie.

 

[TIMMAH]

HOLY CRAP!!!! With what X3 has done at the box office and now on DVD.... Fox would be complete idiots to not make X4.

 

[YJ1]

"'X-Men' is outperforming our projections," Fox senior vp marketing communications Steve Feldstein said. "We had high hopes, and it's even outperforming those.

This is great news all the way around. The Wolverine film will now get fast tracked and X4 is guaranteed. Hugh Jackman was thinking of fitting in another film before he shoots Wolverine but I'm betting Fox will talk him in to shooting next year.

These numbers are extremely impressive given they're not boosted by Christmas sales.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Hmmm. What interesting, solid projections we have here.

So much for dissenters saying that the "general moviegoing audience" hated this film.

 

[danoyse]

My dad bought it at a CompUSA and he said it was the last one they had in the display.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Hmmm. What interesting, solid projections we have here.

So much for dissenters saying that the "general moviegoing audience" hated this film.

Yep no matter how successful the movie is people refuse to believe that people like it...hehe.

 

[triplefive]

At least a few people here have a multiple copies on their own. I wonder how many people did that. Bravo, FOX, your marketing scheme, if it was such, worked.

 

[Primal Slayer]

At least a few people here have a multiple copies on their own. I wonder how many people did that. Bravo, FOX, your marketing scheme, if it was such, worked.

Except how many people know about the special feature glitch? Not that many.

 

[antariksh]

I bow to FOX the almighty STUDIO GOD!!!!

 

[triplefive]

Except how many people know about the special feature glitch? Not that many.

True true, just the internet nerds (disclaimer: i don't mean that in a derogatory way, as i am right here, and posting about it, durr)

 

[chaseter]

I got the 21 scenes the first go around so I will not buy another one. But I will buy the entire trilogy again when it comes out on Blue Ray.

 

[Visionary]

What did X-Men 1 and 2 make the first day out on DVD?

X-MEN 4 MUST BE BORN!

 

[antariksh]

What did X-Men 1 and 2 make the first day out on DVD?

X-MEN 4 MUST BE BORN!

X1 sold 2.5 million copies in first week.

X2 sold 4.5-5 million copies first week.

X3 will probably sell between 6.5-7 million copies.

 

[X-Maniac]

Well, at the very least this success will be a catalyst for further X-movies. Which i would think anyone would welcome. All they need to do is get the creative formula correct. The DVD extras show the effort they put into this movie, even if it's felt by many that they distorted the mythology. I wonder how easily they can make an X4 without undoing the dramatic impact of events in X3.

 

[SuperT]

Although I have already bought my Region 2 DVD from UK, I went into Blockbuster to buy X3 for my cousin and nephew today after work and they were all sold out. I then went down to Wal-Mart and they were all sold out as well. =O

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I wonder how easily they can make an X4 without undoing the dramatic impact of events in X3.

I question if it can be successfully done, which is why I am adamant against an X-Men 4.

However, if it is done properly, I would welcome it. I just question the ability to do it properly.

 

[Visionary]

X1 sold 2.5 million copies in first week.

X2 sold 4.5-5 million copies first week.

X3 will probably sell between 6.5-7 million copies.

So basically, Ratner kicked Singer's ass domestically, overseas, worldwide and soon on DVD. Are you people sure that the masses didn't like this film? I'm just not seeing it.

 

[chaseter]

I question if it can be successfully done, which is why I am adamant against an X-Men 4.

However, if it is done properly, I would welcome it. I just question the ability to do it properly.

If you love X3 so much, why don't you have any faith in an X4?

 

[PeRfEcT_StOrM]

WOW!!! omg that means they had better take into account X4.

 

[tonytr1687]

So basically, Ratner kicked Singer's ass domestically, overseas, worldwide and soon on DVD. Are you people sure that the masses didn't like this film? I'm just not seeing it.

X3 wouldve been successful with or without Ratner or Singer.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

If you love X3 so much, why don't you have any faith in an X4?

I've explained it time and again.

Short answer: Too much has been concluded.

Long answer: Check out Advanced Dark's Stan Lee thread.

From Advanced Dark's Stan Lee Thread:
Too much has concluded because Scott, Jean, and Xavier are dead, Rogue is cured, Nightcrawler, Beast, and Angel never stuck around after their inclusions... it's just Storm, Wolverine, Iceman, Kitty Pryde, and Colossus.

Although on it's own, that's not a bad team of X-Men by any right, the core, central characters in this trilogy (even if they all didn't have the biggest roles) were Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Jean, and Xavier. And I don't think it's in good storytelling fashion, for an ongoing story that should intertwine with the installments before it, to change the core characters, and all of a sudden turn Iceman, Kitty, and Colossus into the focus of these films, when they never were before.

Okay, sure, Xavier is still alive, and Magneto barely moved a chess piece... but I don't think any of that is solid enough to constitute an "ongoing story arc" vital enough to justify a whole new core of characters.

Plus, unlike X-Men or X2, the ongoing story arcs through the trilogy have been concluded (perhaps not to satisfaction of many people, but concluded none-the-less)

Wolverine's past has been dealt with (even in the comics he never learns the full truth about his past), Iceman and Rogue have "solved" the "problem" of their relationship ( ), the Phoenix has risen, and been defeated.

There may be comic book elements that have yet to be touched upon, but in terms of the movie verse story arcs, there's really nothing left.

I acknowledge that it's possible for an X-Men 4 to happen, and to work. But, I think the odds are against it, considering how X-Men: The Last Stand wrapped things up. I don't neccesarily agree that it was the right direction to take... but it's how things happened, and I think by this point, a 4th film will just be overkill.