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Post by harrypalmer on Mar 19, 2008 13:37:27 GMT -5
QOS is being released a week early - on October 31st rather than 7th November!
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Post by smartboy on Mar 19, 2008 16:58:17 GMT -5
A week early? has this got something to do with Harry Potters November release?
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 19, 2008 17:11:00 GMT -5
QOS is being released a week early - on October 31st rather than 7th November! That's the release in the UK. I'm glad it's not here in the US. |
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Post by Kadov on Mar 19, 2008 23:43:36 GMT -5
This is not a good sign. October is usually the junk yard for films released in the fall (slasher films, horror films and the like, and other questionable films are usually dumped right around the Halloween timeframe). Also, by releasing it a week early in the UK, Eon is probably hoping there will be enough buzz for the film to carry over into the first week of November. Unfortunately, the week of November 7 in the U.S. is the presidential election week. All the media will be focused on that. The other factor is that Eon seems to be conceding that QOS will not be able to compete with the films coming out in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, so they'd rather get the film out ASAP to try and get whatever they can from it. Then again, may be they can pull this off again--they'll just need to add another $500 million to Craig's PR and sell him like a messiah again. (This guy's PR in CR was something to behold, an onslaught of over-glorification that in some ways reminds of Barack Obama's over-glorifed PR.) Anyway, that's my cynical take on things.
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 20, 2008 9:59:26 GMT -5
This is not a good sign. October is usually the junk yard for films released in the fall (slasher films, horror films and the like, and other questionable films are usually dumped right around the Halloween timeframe). Also, by releasing it a week early in the UK, Eon is probably hoping there will be enough buzz for the film to carry over into the first week of November. Unfortunately, the week of November 7 in the U.S. is the presidential election week. All the media will be focused on that. The other factor is that Eon seems to be conceding that QOS will not be able to compete with the films coming out in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, so they'd rather get the film out ASAP to try and get whatever they can from it. Then again, may be they can pull this off again--they'll just need to add another $500 million to Craig's PR and sell him like a messiah again. (This guy's PR in CR was something to behold, an onslaught of over-glorification that in some ways reminds of Barack Obama's over-glorifed PR.) Anyway, that's my cynical take on things. Do you mean it's not a good sign for QOS? |
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Post by Kadov on Mar 20, 2008 11:25:42 GMT -5
This is not a good sign. October is usually the junk yard for films released in the fall (slasher films, horror films and the like, and other questionable films are usually dumped right around the Halloween timeframe). Also, by releasing it a week early in the UK, Eon is probably hoping there will be enough buzz for the film to carry over into the first week of November. Unfortunately, the week of November 7 in the U.S. is the presidential election week. All the media will be focused on that. The other factor is that Eon seems to be conceding that QOS will not be able to compete with the films coming out in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, so they'd rather get the film out ASAP to try and get whatever they can from it. Then again, may be they can pull this off again--they'll just need to add another $500 million to Craig's PR and sell him like a messiah again. (This guy's PR in CR was something to behold, an onslaught of over-glorification that in some ways reminds me of Barack Obama's over-glorifed PR.) Anyway, that's my cynical take on things. Do you mean it's not a good sign for QOS? Yes, I believe the early release date is a bad sign for QOS (as I summarized above). In my checkered career, I've worked on the marketing side of the film industry, and it's my experience that movies released in October, especially around Halloween, is usually crap. Then again, William Goldman once said that, in Hollywood, nobody knows anything. And neither do I.  |
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Post by alex on Mar 20, 2008 17:15:56 GMT -5
"Just in time for Halloween...Daniel Craig is back in action..."
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Post by adam on Mar 21, 2008 4:56:23 GMT -5
The earlier release may be becasue there is stiff competition from other films in November. They want to make sure the films enters the UK box office charts at number 1. It would be a disaster if it did'nt.
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Post by harrypalmer on Mar 21, 2008 6:47:19 GMT -5
I see- it's just in the UK!
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 21, 2008 10:38:19 GMT -5
I'll be pissed if this happens here in the US.
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