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Topic: Highest grossing picture of the summer?
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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-14-2000 03:03 PM
My Top Five: "X-Men" "Nutty II" "Chicken Run" "The Patriot" "Mission Impossible II"
Honorable Mentions:
"Me, Myself & Irene "Big Momma's House" "Shaft"
This Summer's Biggest Sleeper:
"Titan A.E."
Keep It In The Can . . . Forever:
"Hollow Man"
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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 804
From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-14-2000 09:31 PM
Tom,I disagree with your thoughts about "The Patriot". True, most Americans don't want a history lesson at the movies, but look at the success of "Titanic", "Gladiator", and dare I say . . . "Braveheart". Crowds flocked to see these movies because of two things: star-power and special effects - not history. "The Patriot" will deliver, I'm sure. Anyway, my predicted gross for "The Patriot" is $110 million (give or take a million or so). Aaron
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Russ Kress
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 202
From: Charleston, WV, USA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-14-2000 10:58 PM
Well, it sure won't be "Timecode".When the newspapers checked on upcoming releases that week, they absolutely raved and praised us for bringing it in! They said that art film fans would flock to the theatre. They were right. At last count, all EIGHT of them had showed up over the course of the weekend. One guy actually complained that we were showing it in a 90 seat house. "Well sir, I am sorry that you do not like your seat. Might I suggest any of the 89 REMAINING ones?" Does anyone else catch flack from the media for not showing independant films? I like them, but that only means that there were seven paying customers. Russ
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-20-2000 06:52 AM
I like Mission Impossible but I'm afraid it won't have the legs. Chicken Run looks fun. The one that I think will do well is Me, Myself & I.As far as independant films, we get a lot of crap from the newspaper for not playing enough of them. People just don't understand that there are about 9,000,000 people who complain that we don't get them but there are only 9 people who actually show. At Mercyhurst, we average 200 people for just about any movie. End of the Affair and Topsy Turvy did really well. Princess Mononoke did well with the anime' crowd. These are all one-off shows, too! If the pattern keeps up, the bosses here are thinking of having movies on two nights. We are worried that doing that will "dilute" the audience. (Same number of tix spread over two nights.) I guess it all comes down to reputaion and atmosphere... TT-17 doesn't get a big response to those movies 'cuz people don't think of the place as a place to watch that kind of movie. M.H. College get's a better response because it's more of an "academic" atmosphere where people can gather after the movie and talk about it. It's not about presentation quality because the picture at M.H. College is just a hair bit better than TT-17. The auditorium is bigger than TT-17's "big house" and the decor is a lot classier. The only thing that the college doesn't have is digital sound. That's okay because people don't come to watch those movies because of DTS. 1/2 of the prints don't even have digital.
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