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Author Topic: Brother Bear opening on a Sat. - WTF? Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-18-2003 10:25 PM                        Okay, okay, I know that Disney doesn't feel the need to ever make sense. In fact, they usually go out of their way to wield their power just for the sake of doing so and making things difficult for everyone else. Having said that, I STILL don't understand this one: "Brother Bear" (after a brief LA/NY limited run) expands to nationwide release on Saturday , November 1st. Why? Why? Why? I can understand not wanting to open a film on Halloween, but opening a film on a Saturday doesn't seem to be the best solution to me. Open it on Oct. 24th or Nov. 7th. Neither one of those dates seem to have anything which would compete for the kiddie audiences. All they're really doing is cutting a day's box office off the opening weekend (okay so it's Halloween, but people would still show up for the film) and creating more work for just about everybody in the film industry. Marketing-wise, I don't see why Nov. 1 is so much more attractive than Oct. 31. Is Disney afraid that if the film opens on Halloween that no one will remember it the next day? Does opening the film on a Saturday somehow help its marketability? Is it just a lot of crap to put up with for another "Treasure Planet" box office return? Of course, it gets better! This would be annoying enough in and of itself, but this also happens to be the week where "The Matrix Revolutions" pops up on a Wednesday! So, if you plan on playing the rerelease of "Alien" (10/31), "Brother Bear" (11/1), "The Matrix Revolutions" (11/5), and New Line's "Elf" (11/7), that means you'll have four schedule changes in eight days! I enjoy staying busy and changing things up now and then, but I'm not a big fan of this or any other film opening on a Saturday. Bah humbug!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2003 12:10 PM                        I haven't a clue, but I love the end of the trailer with the two moose. FWIW, I think this movie is going to erase the memory of Treasure Planet.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 08-19-2003 12:25 PM                     quote: So, if you plan on playing the rerelease of "Alien" (10/31), "Brother Bear" (11/1), "The Matrix Revolutions" (11/5), and New Line's "Elf" (11/7), that means you'll have four schedule changes in eight days! Alien?  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-19-2003 01:32 PM                     Am I the only one who thinks that "Koda" (the name of the younger bear) would be a better name than "Brother Bear"? This movie does not look very good to me at all. Soon to be yet another nail in Disney's coffin at least as far as animation goes.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2003 01:59 PM                        Michael B: Yes, "Alien" is getting a "director's cut" re-release on Oct. 31. Michael G: Actually the Disney marketing people wanted to just call it "Bears." What is this thread, a meeting of the Mikes??  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-19-2003 02:36 PM                     Hi Mikes! The animation & music seem like top shelf work. Its the story I'm concerned about. IMHO, it looks far better than "Treasure Plannet" or the slew of other recent Disney films (exceptions being anything from Pixar, & Lilo and Stitch) I loved the soundtrack Phil Colins did for Tarzan. I can't wait to hear this one.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-19-2003 04:12 PM                     I am actually looking forward to the Alien release. I really hope that they make good use of the surrounds. If they do it right, they can make it feel really creapy even for those of us who have seen it a hundred times.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-19-2003 04:39 PM                     Appears to be another Disney dud. They've lost touch with reality when it comes to their animated films of late.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-19-2003 05:34 PM                     quote: I can understand not wanting to open a film on Halloween, but opening a film on a Saturday doesn't seem to be the best solution to me. Open it on Oct. 24th or Nov. 7th. Neither one of those dates seem to have anything which would compete for the kiddie audiences. After Brother Bear comes out you'll have family fare back-to-back-to-back: Elf, Looney Tunes, The Cat in the Hat. In NYC an arthouse picture will start its regular run on a Saturday if it has its premiere at the New York Film Festival. That's how the UA Union Square booked Dancer in the Dark.  |  IP: Logged Dan Harris Film Handler Posts: 86 From: Bristol, UK Registered: Jun 2003 posted 08-19-2003 06:24 PM                     Michael B "Alien" is being shown digitally at Odeon Leicester Square at some point over the coming month, and will also be showing in the UK from the end of October. Dan  |  IP: Logged Nicholas Roznovsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 156 From: College Station, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-19-2003 07:48 PM                        quote: After Brother Bear comes out you'll have family fare back-to-back-to-back: Elf, Looney Tunes, The Cat in the Hat. I don't think "Elf" poses much of a problem, or at least it shouldn't. Parents are still more than happy to dump their kids off for an hour and a half as long as Disney slaps their name on it. Even if they don't want to split opening box with "Elf", why not release this bad boy on Oct. 24th? By releasing at the beginning of number, they've already raised the white flag for Thanskgiving weekend.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-20-2003 12:48 PM                     Our newspaper, The Press Democrat, is very inflexible when it comes to movie reviews. Movie Reviews run on Friday no matter when the film opens. We've told this to distributors when they want to open films on Wednesday. About half the time, they give up, unless it's a national campaign. Opening a film on Saturday would guarantee that it wouldn't be reviewed till the following Friday, by which time the film will have died.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 08-20-2003 01:04 PM                        Shouldn`t the plural of moose be meese?  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 08-20-2003 04:20 PM                     Just found out that Brother Bear will open 10/31 in NYC/LA and 11/1 nationwide. Nicholas: Disney will open The Haunted Mansion for Thanksgiving.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Wale Expert Film Handler Posts: 167 From: Guymon, OK USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-20-2003 05:50 PM                     Alien will be a limited release. I can't understand that. Please, someone tell me that they have heard a last minute change that has been made and that they decided to go wide!  |  IP: Logged

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