THOR gets ANOTHER new date: May 6, 2011

[FaT_tONle]

Craziness with Spidey. I really want this movie to do well. But I'm starting to feel that Marvel doesn't know wtf they're doing. It's disheartening. But I have faith in KB and hope he can do the best with what Marvel gives him.

Well Marvel barely makes any money off of Spidey... it's 5% or something like that. While a lot of money it's not significant. Plus late May is 100% better than mid June as we have found out with like four or five other comicbook films released that month.

 

[p4poetic]

**** that's like...forever.

 

[Hypestyle]

seems weird, to open in late may, i guess its to be earlier, but.. especially since the Thor movie is presumably unconnected in any way to the spidey-4 film, i don't see what harm there is in waiting until summer is in full swing.. is there a spielberg movie opening that June 17?

may already gets crowded, plus kids aren't even out of school yet.. and hopefully branagh has a compellingly violent film that still fits pg-13 parameters..

 

[GNR]

Isn't that in conflict with Spiderman now though? Why would they risk going up against Spiderman 2 weeks in? It's so sad that so many people would want to see more of that Transformers garbage. That movie was a vile pile of *****

Nothing wrong with Bay making things go BOOM.t:

 

[Philly Phanboy]

How set in stone is Thor's new date?

With the casting announcements so far I'm not feeling this as being a legitimate early summer release. An August/Sept date might be a better fit because I see this easily getting creamed by Spidey at the BO with its current date.

 

[Chewy]

Because tentpoles starring young rising talent are such a new concept? Star Trek and Transformers both featured basically unknown casts, as did the first Spider-Man.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Nice of you to include Transformers in your comparison Chewy. Rachel Taylor was in Transformers. She was also in the last Marvel adaption that went against the grain by casting unknowns.

There is a finite revenue per movie week and Spidey likely eating away 1/3 (or more) of your possible revenues makes this date bad without factoring in an unknown cast. If the movie isn't moved it will get ugly.

 

[Chewy]

As opposed to releasing it in late August/September, which is the equivalent of just dumping it and expecting it to fail.

Star Trek was able to survive Wolverine's second weekend, and thrive. If marketed properly Thor will be able to survive Spider-Man 4's third weekend.

 

[yoshimura]

Can my peeps help me out with dates? t:

Thor May 20
Cap July 22nd

Transformers 3?
Spidey?

 

[Chewy]

May (Details)
• Spider-Man 4 (Sony) - 5/6
• Thor (Par.) - 5/20
June (Details)
• Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom (P/DW) - 6/3
• Green Lantern (WB) - 6/17
• Cars 2 (BV) - 6/24
July (Details)
• Transformers 3 (P/DW) - 7/1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part Two) (WB) - 7/15
• The First Avenger: Captain America (Par.) - 7/22

 

[yoshimura]

Wow, thank you very much and good work! Looking at your list, I'm digging May 20th.

Looks like GL has a pretty sweet spot for a debut.

 

[FaT_tONle]

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Comic-Con is in full swing at this point, and ComingSoon.net got a surprise interview with Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv where we talked about the genesis of some of the projects they were showing at the con, though we did have a lot of questions about future Disney plans as well. One of the movies that's still on the forefront of everyone's mind is the fourth installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean." Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told us a few weeks back that they were working on a script, but Aviv and Disney are definitely on board as we learned when we discovered that they have plans to be rolling film on the movie as early as next year.

"We're going to shoot 'Pirates 4' in April and May of next year," Aviv told us during our interview. "We are going to release it hopefully in 2011 is the plan." He said that this time they would only be doing one movie this time that would "hopefully be the first of another trilogy."

"It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger," Aviv admitted. "The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters." He agreed that there is a lot of Captain Jack Sparrow's back story that we haven't seen yet without confirming or denying that we might see some of that in the fourth movie. Still no word on whether Gore Verbinski might come back for the fourth movie.

Look for our full interview with Mr. Aviv very soon. It will definitely be of great interest to anyone who is wondering how Disney has been making decisions about some of the movies they've been making and will make in the future.

Just adding to the 2011 clutter **** I guess. I am assuming this will go the week after Thor like when At World's End was released if not the same weekend. Doesn't bode well for Thor. Lets hope this is released sometime in June. Marvel might be kicking themselves for pushing all their projects to 2011.

 

[bunk]

Well what are they going to do... push them back to 2012? Rush them? It is what it is.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Had they settled on the script with their budget under control Thor would have been ready for June 2010 where it was originally scheduled. Marvel took their own sweet time and may have backed themselves in a corner. I smelled trouble from the moment they pushed back everything. With Salvation flopping and Disney presumably putting POTC4 off till 2012 I thought Marvel may have dodged a bullet. Wishful thinking with Disney having no megahits outside Pixar since AWE. I am sorry but this was a terrible job by Marvel from the getgo. I can't blame the writers strike on every delay especially when they are doing one to two films a year max.

 

[bunk]

Again, if they need to take their "sweet time", then so be it. I don't want a piece of crap Thor movie.

 

[Khemik@L]

Thor will do well don't worry guys. I'm getting a really sweet vibes about the movie I think it will be brilliant. Let's wait and see

 

[Fresh Prince]

As long as the movie is good its cool they delayed the movie.

 

[Wally West]

I'm glad they didn't rush things just to avoid competion in a busy summer. I'm not as concerned about the box office numbers as I am with the quality of the film. .

 

[DocHoliday]

rushing the film out for 2010 would have been bad. Kenneth Branagh is the man. Give him and Marvel the time they need. Maybe (and you guys may not like this) if it is too crowded to make money they can take the LOTR date in December. NOV/DEC has worked for other fantasy films pretty well.

 

[Compi716]

Thor's date should be fine. The only one I'm worried about is Captain America. My question is, if the July 4th slot is open, why not take it?

 

[Chewy]

Paramount probably wants to plant a Trek sequel in the July 4th slot

 

[spider-neil]

I think SM4 will see a decent sized decrease from SM3, so I wouldn't worry about that

based on what? SM3 did bigger numbers worldwide that SM2

 

[Chewy]

SM3 made more at the WW BO based mostly on hype built from SM1 + SM2.

The audience reaction to the movie was mixed at best and DVD sales took a pretty significant dip from the first two films

 

[FaT_tONle]

Paramount probably wants to plant a Trek sequel in the July 4th slot

I think the studios usually alternate the July 4th release if you look at it, and Paramount has Airbender that weekend in 2010. I know they prematurely placed TF3 in there but I think that was just wishful thinking, and Bay pretty much came out and said he wasn't doing it a day later. Plus sequels usually don't need that weekend, and we haven't even heard anything from Abrams yet... or have we? I am sure some star-filled movie will take that slot in the coming months, but there has to be a better reason why Paramount hasn't placed Cap in that slot. I think the studio rotation could be a factor.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I don't think we're seeing TF3 in 2011. I'm not sure about POTC4, the last one was pretty boring.