Marvin
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Deadline reports that Paramount's pre-cogs see TF opening with 150 over 5 days.
which means a 3 day in really low hundreds if they're lucky.
a so so number given the franchise.
Maybe the haters have been right, maybe a lot of people have been turned sour or have been told to turn sour by way of public conversation, but I'm very curious to finally see these numbers. It would be interesting if the best of the trilogy performs the worst.
I do think the marketing isn't doing anything for already jaded and a 5 day opening does nothing but diffuse your number especially if your not the sort of franchise that has people dress up and camp out side for days in advance. I think like Dark Kinght, they should have put everything they had into a 3 day weekend and let word of mouth carry out the rest of the five days. And their marketing should have been showing what's new about this installment as opposed to the bigger (clearer) but familiar spectacle.
ie a good chunk of the potential audience don't even know about the sentinel prime character voiced by nimoy, they don't know about Dylan...What they are being told is that chicago is ground zero and there's a ship of dead robots on the moon.
What I do anticipate is that word of mouth is going to be golden, for no other reason than this being better than the last as well as all the stuff the trailer didn't mention. That being said I do think Paramount is setting themselves up for a so so opening.
What I also know is that every time this trailer plays, a new convert is found, it's very grabbing and given the other june(and may) releases, this might just be the ticket the audience needs to bring them back to exciting times, especially if the 3D is zeitgeist levels of good.
I'm very curious indeed.
which means a 3 day in really low hundreds if they're lucky.
a so so number given the franchise.
Maybe the haters have been right, maybe a lot of people have been turned sour or have been told to turn sour by way of public conversation, but I'm very curious to finally see these numbers. It would be interesting if the best of the trilogy performs the worst.
I do think the marketing isn't doing anything for already jaded and a 5 day opening does nothing but diffuse your number especially if your not the sort of franchise that has people dress up and camp out side for days in advance. I think like Dark Kinght, they should have put everything they had into a 3 day weekend and let word of mouth carry out the rest of the five days. And their marketing should have been showing what's new about this installment as opposed to the bigger (clearer) but familiar spectacle.
ie a good chunk of the potential audience don't even know about the sentinel prime character voiced by nimoy, they don't know about Dylan...What they are being told is that chicago is ground zero and there's a ship of dead robots on the moon.
What I do anticipate is that word of mouth is going to be golden, for no other reason than this being better than the last as well as all the stuff the trailer didn't mention. That being said I do think Paramount is setting themselves up for a so so opening.
What I also know is that every time this trailer plays, a new convert is found, it's very grabbing and given the other june(and may) releases, this might just be the ticket the audience needs to bring them back to exciting times, especially if the 3D is zeitgeist levels of good.
I'm very curious indeed.
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