The Series is threatened.

*Sigh*

It doesn't look good for PC anymore. Third week out and we're down to #5 on the week (http://www.imdb.com/chart). $150 million will be hard to make domestically at this point. We are behind a movie about women who dress up in expensive clothes, a 20-year-later Indiana Jones sequel, a really bad horror-thriller, and a movie that came out 2 weeks before us.
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*Sighs with Knight of Narnia* It makes me very sad. Even though I admit I had to see the one about the women who dress up in expensive clothes :eek:, my friend had to pull me along so I wouldnt walk into the Prince Caspian theatre instead (It was TORTURE walking by that auditorium!!) I guess, people just think they can know what to expect from fantasy films because recently they've not done very well...I dont know. It saddens me :(

If they would have stuck with the original release date in December I think things would have been going much better....
 
What would have been better would have been if they had filmed something which (1) at least remotely resembled the book Mr. Lewis wrote, and (2) had Aslan in it for more than three seconds. Nonetheless, out of loyalty to "the franchise," I am going to hold my nose and go see it once more.
 
I don't think if the movie was just like the book it would have made more money.If you liked the first one I would assume you would just go and see how the new one is.

Originally the script was exactly like the book but the producers, director, and others made them change it because it wouldn't have made an exciting and good movie.
 
Copperfox said:
What would have been better would have been if they had filmed something which (1) at least remotely resembled the book Mr. Lewis wrote, and (2) had Aslan in it for more than three seconds. Nonetheless, out of loyalty to "the franchise," I am going to hold my nose and go see it once more.
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That's what I think too... although I was mostly prepared for the changes. I went in without expecting it to be faithful to the book, so it was relatively painless. (Except for the lack of Aslan, and the thing with Susan at the end. Argh.) I did like it because I considered it a separate entity from the book, and I will probably see it again (every little bit helps!), but their Caspian is not my Caspian. They probably figured that they could change so much because fewer people have read the book, as opposed to LWW.

I think the problem is not only that PC is being crowded out by a lot of other movies, but also that the most famous book in the series is LWW. So the new film is going to be measured against a level of popularity that, I think, only LWW could achieve. It's starting out at a loss, really, because even if it does well it is unlikely that it will do as well as the first one. It's a pity, and I hope that it won't stop the filming of the others. (That was disjointed, sorry.)
 
Skandalicious said:
I don't think if the movie was just like the book it would have made more money.If you liked the first one I would assume you would just go and see how the new one is.

Originally the script was exactly like the book but the producers, director, and others made them change it because it wouldn't have made an exciting and good movie.
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Yes, I liked the first one and the second. I plan on seeing the third and the fourth. But unless I am extremely impressed by the fourth movie, I don't plan on seeing any more after that...at least not in theater anyway. The thought of seeing a Narnia movie without any of the Pevensie children in it just doesn't seem very appealing!
 
Knight of Narnia said:
*Sigh*

It doesn't look good for PC anymore. Third week out and we're down to #5 on the week (http://www.imdb.com/chart). $150 million will be hard to make domestically at this point. We are behind a movie about women who dress up in expensive clothes, a 20-year-later Indiana Jones sequel, a really bad horror-thriller, and a movie that came out 2 weeks before us.
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What really bugs me is that the movie about the movie about women who dress up in expensive clothes being on top is the fact that it is a LIPSTICK AND NYLONS movie! I reenacted the ending of the 1968 Planet of the Apes when I saw that.... It makes no sense whatso ever!

I blame the studio for hyping that one so much. It had even bigger publicty than Indy and Iron Man. Every night all the entertainment shows were talking about it none-stop. ( kind of like how Narnia was underhyped.)
 
What really bugs me is that the movie about the movie about women who dress up in expensive clothes being on top is the fact that it is a LIPSTICK AND NYLONS movie! I reenacted the ending of the 1968 Planet of the Apes when I saw that.... It makes no sense whatso ever!

I blame the studio for hyping that one so much. It had even bigger publicty than Indy and Iron Man. Every night all the entertainment shows were talking about it none-stop. ( kind of like how Narnia was underhyped.)
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Yeah, every few minutes you see a commercial for "Sex and the City" or "Indy" but I've only seen six PC commercials. (I've been counting :eek:)
:(
 
I actually haven't seen any commercials for PC. I saw like two theatrical trailers, but nothing on TV. Disney is too busy with Indiana Jones and Wall-E to advertise for PC...what a shame!
 
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I actually haven't seen any commercials for PC. I saw like two theatrical trailers, but nothing on TV. Disney is too busy with Indiana Jones and Wall-E to advertise for PC...what a shame!
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Actually Indiana Jones was Paramountm not Disney, but right on Wall-E.
Actually I saw this on IMDB, something to consider...
"When Friday's box-office results for Sex and the City came in on Saturday, Hollywood gurus were stunned. The movie had earned just about as much as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had earned the previous Friday, just under $30 million. While advance word was that the movie would do especially well on Friday as groups of women got together for the premiere, no one had predicted that it would do that well. But Warner Bros. distribution chief Dan Fellman told the Associated Press, "There were women that came in and bought out entire theaters in advance and invited all their friends." Co-star Sarah Jessica Parker told the New York Times, "It is kind of mind-boggling." (Eighty-five percent of the audience Friday night was female.) And in fact the movie took in only half its Friday gross on Saturday and again on Sunday, winding up with $55.7 million -- just about what it reportedly cost to produce. And yes, it became the top moneymaker at the box office for the weekend, pushing Indy into second place with $46 million -- also something that no one had predicted. Also opening solidly was the horror flick The Strangers, with about $20.7 million, to place third. Some experts are predicting that Crystal Skull will return to the top spot next week and remain there for a while, pointing out that the potential audience for that film is far greater than that for Sex and the City -- especially as kids begin pouring out of school for summer vacation."

Which means, logically that PC COULD have the chance to pick upin the states as well. Kids will want to go see PC or Indiana Jones NOT Sex and the City, teenage boys especailly. ( would any adolescent boy really want to go see it, I don't think so. Well unless his buddies dare him to.) With the high action content in PC it should cater very well to them.
 
You hit a valuable point there, Seven-el, with the whole Lipsticks and nylons comparison. When I heard that SATC came out on top knocking over Indy4 i thought it was the end of civilization as we know it. But on the plus side, SATC was way over-hyped and took in 55.4 million while PC under-hyped managed to make as much as SATC.

P.S. Man, I HATE Sex and the City with a passion and everything it stands for.
 
Very good points. I hadn't really thought about it picking up once school got out. Oh, and I know that Indy isn't a Disney movie, but Disney partially owns Lucas Films...hence the Indy and star tours rides at Disneyland.
 
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