Posted on 04/27/2011 1:35:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film.
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huh?
Not unexpected. Possibly a good marketing move.
Screw the critics - they’re all a much of socialist lemmings! We the people will make this a success - the rest of Hollywood be damned!
I’ll buy the DVD. I just can’t get myself up for a four-hour round trip drive to see a two-hour movie.
It’ll be lucky to make $4m on a $20m budget. No sequel is possible on that.
See it fast before it’s out of theaters.
He would be smarter to release exclusively to Netflix or DVD.
Well, this is the LA LA times, after all.
But it seems that he is giving up too soon.
The kind of crowd who would go to see his film were busy with Easter this last weekend. Besides, they need to get out the rest of the dups for the up to 1,000 screens that wanted this movie after the opening.
A bad movie on an excellent book, is still a B-A-D movie.
Remember the annimated “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” movies. They were horrible, I mean I would rather read the fine print on my homeowners coverage than sit through those things.
On the other hand, a well done movie, based on a great book - is a stellar experience. I offer the latest films of “Lord of the Rings” as an example.
A bad movie on an excellent book, is still a B-A-D movie.
Remember the annimated “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” movies. They were horrible, I mean I would rather read the fine print on my homeowners coverage than sit through those things.
On the other hand, a well done movie, based on a great book - is a stellar experience. I offer the latest films of “Lord of the Rings” as an example.
That way it will appear to be a conspiracy theory and the Randians will come out of the woodwork and try to see the movie multiple times while it's still in theatres, buy multiple copies of the DVD ... don't forget the director's cut ... buy the T-Shirts, etc.
If your audience wears tinfoil hats, then blame the government mind-control beams, i.e. Los Angeles Times.
They already released this movie? I thought it was going to be released in a few years. Not like I was going to go see it anyway.
In other words, Producer Shrugged
“don’t forget the director’s cut ... “
For a second, I thought that read “the dictator’s cut”;)
Wouldn’t you know, the guy decided to go Galt...;)
Well said. Thank you.
The critics are not the problem. His crappy distribution plan is the problem. It is kind of hard to make a lot of money when your movie is only showing on a little over 400 screens.
Or “History of the World, Pt1”
Mel Brooks never did Pt2.
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