Has Guardians of the Galaxy already won August

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

We'll know for sure if everything else due out in August gets rescheduled.

Oh if they push it back again that's just a guarantee that the studio has zero faith in the movie and are just trying to cut their losses as much as possible.

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Plasticplayhouse

it looks pretty good, but i wouldnt count it as #1 yet. the GotG comic didnt do as strong as they hoped. i liked it and i think it will translate well into a movie, but the general mavel fanbase didnt seem to grab onto it much.

Apples and oranges, really. Iron Man wasn't really considered an A-list superhero character until the movie was a massive success. It's hard to say what will strike a chord with a mainstream audience. Sometimes one really good/fun movie is all it takes for a franchise to catch fire.

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by Bry

Apples and oranges, really. Iron Man wasn't really considered an A-list superhero character until the movie was a massive success. It's hard to say what will strike a chord with a mainstream audience. Sometimes one really good/fun movie is all it takes for a franchise to catch fire.

Exactly. Iron Man was no where near as popular as say Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, etc.

Now, he's a household name.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

TMNT will absolutely flop. Just compare it to the new RoboCop - it's a reboot that I personally don't think received a lot of marketing, and it came out right near The Lego Movie, which was a huuuuge mistake. According to Wikipedia it cost $130 million to make, but has made only $100 million. I think that's what you'd consider a box office 'flop'.

Right now anything with Marvel's name attached is gold - the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man, and the X-Men are all very profitable franchises for their respective film companies. That's why we're getting a freaking ANT-MAN movie very soon - even just five years ago you would have been a laughingstock among your comic book nerd friends if you had predicted that. There are even plans for a Dr. Strange movie.

If Paramount's wise, they'll change the release date so it's not just one weekend after GotG - maybe the loss won't be as bad then.

[Candy Kappa]

Too bad about Robocop. I haven't seen the movie yet myself. But i loved the trailer, the Omnicorp website and commercials

[Bry]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

TMNT will absolutely flop. Just compare it to the new RoboCop - it's a reboot that I personally don't think received a lot of marketing, and it came out right near The Lego Movie, which was a huuuuge mistake. According to Wikipedia it cost $130 million to make, but has made only $100 million. I think that's what you'd consider a box office 'flop'

It's actually worse than that - it's made about $100 million total in the worldwide box office, but only $33 million of that is from the domestic market. Studios generally get less pure profit from the international market than they do from the domestic (there are regional and local dealers and exhibitors that take their cut as well), so the number we're seeing isn't necessarily an accurate measurement of how much the studio is taking in. It's probably much less.

[Coola Yagami]

The funny part is people acting like tmnt is even supposed to be any kind of completion for GTOG. Dream on. IMO they should have released the movie at a time when a big blockbuster wasn't on the horizon. Between GOTG, Spider-Man 2 and their very own Transformers 4, this crapped-on movie really has no place to go.

[psychturtle]

I blame heavy turtle appearance edits.

[turtlefanforever]

The month before it has some good ones. Another step up movie which has a following another planes movie, another planet of the apes then in that month there is GOTG, sin city, the expendables 3, and the giver which was a popular book but I hated it.

[Galactus]

I think they won it the moment Michael Bay said this...

These turtles are from an alien race

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Galactus

I think they won it the moment Michael Bay said this...

Irony being most of the Guardians are legit aliens...

[Zulithe]

i'll probably see it like, twice. so yeah i think so

[Coola Yagami]

Same for me. Got more than enough action or comic fans to watch it with multiple times. I have to find someone to drag to see the tmnt one with me though.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

TMNT will absolutely flop. Just compare it to the new RoboCop - it's a reboot that I personally don't think received a lot of marketing, and it came out right near The Lego Movie, which was a huuuuge mistake. According to Wikipedia it cost $130 million to make, but has made only $100 million. I think that's what you'd consider a box office 'flop'.

Right now anything with Marvel's name attached is gold - the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man, and the X-Men are all very profitable franchises for their respective film companies. That's why we're getting a freaking ANT-MAN movie very soon - even just five years ago you would have been a laughingstock among your comic book nerd friends if you had predicted that. There are even plans for a Dr. Strange movie.

If Paramount's wise, they'll change the release date so it's not just one weekend after GotG - maybe the loss won't be as bad then.

it wasn't bad because opr marketing its bad because there is next to no ties to the original was was popular for specific reasons.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...s/8795-Robocop

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by samxsteal

it wasn't bad because opr marketing its bad because there is next to no ties to the original was was popular for specific reasons.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...s/8795-Robocop

That too. No one wanted to see a RoboCop reboot made.

[Candy Kappa]

I wonder if Robocop would have done better being a sequel, in the vein of John Rambo and Die Hard 4.0.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

That too. No one wanted to see a RoboCop reboot made.

i mean i think it would have been cool i think the should have kept it rated R and used more of the modern symbology

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

I wonder if Robocop would have done better being a sequel, in the vein of John Rambo and Die Hard 4.0.

Rambo Was great Die hard no so much. but i dont think it would have worked. The movie you talked about has had an average amount of movie made through out the years, where as Robocop had just those run of movie and nothing as recent as the others you listed

[bridgegrn]

I feel like the Turtles need something big to get some decent buzz going around it. Not only was the GOTG trailer fun and interesting but it's a Marvel movie. Marvel films are pretty much all big event movies now and considering one of the cool aspects is the fact that they all tie in to each other in one way or another GOTG has a significant edge over TMNT. I feel like we'll get a TMNT trailer very soon, or some kind of official release.

[Cure]

Whoooooo caaaaaaaares. I don't see why everything has to be a competition between non-participants. I'll watch both and be content.