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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: QuDDus on July 08, 2001, 08:22:17 PM
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I think it is going to go down sinking I mean it will have to compete with scray movie 2 which has only been the box office for a week. And seeing how the last scray movie sold over 150million the second one is sure to sell. Plus AI will be in it\'s third week at the box office. And cats and dogs which opened number one at the box office is sure to be in the mix too. Then a week later jurrassic park 3 hit\'s which is sure to be a blockbuster seller. I think the FF movie may be good, but it won\'t do squat at the box office just too much competition going up against it.
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Originally posted by XBOX
I think it is going to go down sinking I mean it will have to compete with scray movie 2 which has only been the box office for a week. And seeing how the last scray movie sold over 150million the second one is sure to sell. Plus AI will be in it\'s third week at the box office. And cats and dogs which opened number one at the box office is sure to be in the mix too. Then a week later jurrassic park 3 hit\'s which is sure to be a blockbuster seller. I think the FF movie may be good, but it won\'t do squat at the box office just too much competition going up against it.
But FF is such a different movie than all of those. It\'ll draw attention to a different crowd. I hope it does well, but a lot of people still don\'t like computer generated things. Most are okay with an add on in certain parts, but when it comes to a full-feature movie it kind of scares them. (Mostly grandmas fall into this category, along with my sister). My sister wouldn\'t even go see Shrek \'cause it was computer generated!
Some people.
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I don\'t know about \'tank\', but I think it\'s ok to say Tomb Raider will be the most successful game movie this year. That\'s just my opinion though, I\'ll be seeing FF, as I\'m sure a lot of people here will.
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hmm... I always though it was going to tank as well. However, being the wierdos that they are, Roper and Ebert decided it was a great film...
http://www.ff8source.com/news746.htm
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Originally posted by Ryu
hmm... I always though it was going to tank as well. However, being the wierdos that they are, Roper and Ebert decided it was a great film...
http://www.ff8source.com/news746.htm
I\'m glad that they didn\'t bash it, but I think it\'s mostly positive \'cause the computer generated thing is so new to them.
I want it to do well real bad! :) But I\'m thinking that the audiances just aren\'t ready.
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Yes Ryu, that was the first Ebert and Roper show that I have seen onit. They said it was good but... If it doesn\'t do well.... Square is in a whole **** load of trouble finnacially.
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Originally posted by Troglodyte
But FF is such a different movie than all of those. It\'ll draw attention to a different crowd. I hope it does well, but a lot of people still don\'t like computer generated things. Most are okay with an add on in certain parts, but when it comes to a full-feature movie it kind of scares them. (Mostly grandmas fall into this category, along with my sister). My sister wouldn\'t even go see Shrek \'cause it was computer generated!
Some people.
I think computer generated movies have to be more Kid orientated if they are going to sell. I mean it should be good for adults too, but it has to be able to capture the younger crowd. I mean look at the toy story movies each of them have grossed over 100million. And shrek is on it\'s way to grossing 250million if it has not done it already. And i think FF seems to be leaning to the that teenage to adult crowd. Which it needs to pull in the kids if it is going to sell. But there is just too much competition out. And millions don\'t even know what Final fantasy is. I think they should push back the release when all the big movies are not set to arrive. I mean planet of the apes at the end of july so that gives the movie too weeks til that big opening.
I see it tanking. I mean they spent so much money on the movie I hope it would do well. The competition is just too tuff and FF is not that wide spread amoung movie buffs.
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I thank Ryu for this link....
thegia.com:
Financially speaking, Square isn\'t pulling any punches. With the budget reportedly surpassing the $200,000,000 mark, Square seems to have put themselves in a risky position if the movie fails to be an international blockbuster. Ironically, while the movie is almost guaranteed to draw crowds in Japan, it has yet to receive a Japanese release date. The fate of the Final Fantasy Movie seems to currently be riding in the theaters of America, where the movie will make its
debut during the summer of 2001.
200 MILLION DOLLARS!!
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
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When Square was talking to their stock holders (remember, they might have lied a little ;)), they said that it only had to rank between 20th to 30th in Ticket sales to make a profit. I don\'t know if Square was just trying to get the angry stock holders off their back, or if this is really true.
And yes, I\'ll go find a link even though I have no idea where I heard that. :)
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Originally posted by IronFist
When Square was talking to their stock holders (remember, they might have lied a little ;)), they said that it only had to rank between 20th to 30th in Ticket sales to make a profit. I don\'t know if Square was just trying to get the angry stock holders off their back, or if this is really true.
And yes, I\'ll go find a link even though I have no idea where I heard that. :)
Well if it cost 200million to make it would have to gross over 200million to make a profit.
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Which is a heck of a lotta money.
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Where did you guys get this "over 200 million" thing. I heard it was over 500 million. :)
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Yes, I think this movie is gonna go down the drains. Sad, but true.
But who\'s to say it isn\'t a good movie. It\'s just that people probably won\'t dig it. Personally, from the trailers I have seen, it would have been much better to see this acted out by real people instead of computer graphics. Well, that\'s just my opinion. :D
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i think it will do well
i also think i will like it
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I hope it does well at the box-office,
and i really hope it is a good picture so that I won\'t find it boring, and too predictable. :D
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Just finished my study \'Animation\' at an Artsacademy
with my CGI animation. Most of the other animation students I know, who usually like Disney/Pixar with
upcoming movies like Monsters Inc. and Shrek on the
oter side, are really eager for Final Fantasy.
So it\'s actually more along the likes of Toy Story in alo
ppls minds after all.
Imo Titan AE failed because it tried to please the younger audience as well.
FF will do well as long as it\'s not directed by dumb asses
like that guy who did the Mortal Kombat flicks.
BTW I hate it when directors have a good concept, but then mess it up trying to put in some kiddy stuff for a younger audience. Jarjar binks hint hint......
Knotter8
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Even though I\'m personaly looking forward to seeing FF this summer, it might not do well financially. Terminator 2 got a budget of something like 150-200 mil and that was considered a very large amount to make movie back then so it had to make a profit almost doubling that to be seen as sucessful by investors backing the movie. The movie garnered such financial confidence by investors due to the previous sucess of the first Terminator, but FF has no prequel to depend on for popularity. Even X-men only got a budget of 75 mil to make and that was considered a fairly safe initial investment for a movie. Even though FF looks like it will be a fun movie, it may end up like Kevin Costner\'s Water World, an expensive movie to make but barely breaking even at the box office and that is not looked upon as a sucess in the film industry.
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The FF movie didn\'t quite cost 200 million. It was somewhere around 130- 150 million. Square is hoping to make 80 million in the American box office. I think that\'s a pretty low goal. I\'m guessing that the movie will take in over 120 million. The rest of the money, Square is planning on making from other countries.
Oh and Scary Movie 2 bombed at the box office. It took in about half of what the first one did. And for a sequel, that is a very bad thing. Sequels usually make most of their money in the first weekend. Scary Movie isn\'t going to be a threat to the FF move. :cool:
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First off, you guys know that I cannot stand the FF GAMES in their latest incarnations, but this movie looks kickass. Too bad that Nobody over 35 will see it and no one under 12 will either. It doesnt have the kid appeal with a touch of humor al la Toy Story, and doesnt have the more-mature humor with a tough of kiddyness al la Shrek. This is a teenager + 20-something movie.
Titanic cost 200million to make. They had to sell 400 million dollars in ticket revenue to be in the black. luckily it sold over 1.2 billion worldwide. I am estimating that it rakes in high its first week, 1 or 2, than quickly drops out of the top ten, maybe it will make 150 million, if it is lucky. but even then, Square and Sony have just lost a pretty penny on advertising and distributing.
Plus, FF\'s director will eat his words about how he wants to cast the main girl in other movies as a normal character, I just think the notion won\'t fly.
Scary Movie 2 was very funny though. Chris Elliot made the movie though, without him, it would\'ve sucked horribly.
"I don\'t know what this is, but I\'m gonna lick it"
Man, that is good stuff.
Eric Jacob
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Altered, I beg to differ.
I\'m 32 and my wife 33 and we\'re going on Wed. :)
See, it\'s not a age demographic so much as a genre. That, IMO, is why they decided to go with SCI-FI instead of Fantasy (The "real" FF).
Sci-Fi is a HUGE demographic and constantly growing, it covers almost every age group (with maybe 60+ excluded).
It will do well.
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For what it\'s worth (which isn\'t much) here\'s an excerpt of the Hollywood Reporter\'s review by Michael Rechtshaffen:
Unfortunately the visuals aren\'t the only aspect of the picture that appear to have been computer generated.
Boasting truly robotic storytelling and laughably artifical dialogue that even the voice talents of Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Alec Baldwin and Ming-Na Wen are unable to animate, this futuristic sci-fi snooze-a-thon will be detecting little evidence of a boxoffice life force, at least on North American soil.
OK, The HR is not known for their great reviews, and even their preditions of box office performance have been known to be way off. (The Fast and the Furious, for example) Still, they are usually not 180 degrees off.
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I\'m pretty sure it\'s not going to bomb. But who knows, we\'ll see. :cool:
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its has people of all ages interested...i watch TV shows doing specials on how its the first movie to come close to having realistic people, and how it might be the wave of the future...and old people are fascinated fascinated
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Originally posted by Kenny--73
The FF movie didn\'t quite cost 200 million. It was somewhere around 130- 150 million. Square is hoping to make 80 million in the American box office. I think that\'s a pretty low goal. I\'m guessing that the movie will take in over 120 million. The rest of the money, Square is planning on making from other countries.
Oh and Scary Movie 2 bombed at the box office. It took in about half of what the first one did. And for a sequel, that is a very bad thing. Sequels usually make most of their money in the first weekend. Scary Movie isn\'t going to be a threat to the FF move. :cool:
Scary movie did not bomb. It came in second place. I mean last year it did not have to compete with anyother movies. I mean cats and dawgs got hype all over the place. And Ai is no doubt going to draw in viewers. There are too many good movies coming out at once. And there is noway scary movie was going to dominate. it did 21million and cats and dawgs did 21.7mill.
Scary movie will continue to gain sales because of the first one. And ppl think it is a very funny movie. The onlything coming out to compete this week is FF oh yeah that Juilia Roberts movie. I expect that movie to open up good. FFx will be lucky to crack the top ten this week.
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I imagine it will bomb - but I don\'t care. I plan on going to see it, but I am also skeptical of it being worth watching. I\'m just going to see it, because it is based off a series I hate.
;)