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Author Topic: A small Gripe about Weinstein Co Betsie Beadling Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Fairfax, Virginia, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-27-2006 08:31 PM                     I liked the Sprung!!! Magic Roundabout Movie, but why did Weinstein change the Title and the Voices when it is already in English. I wanted to hear Robbie Williams Voice. Doogal is not supposed to sond like a Kid. Otherwise I give this a  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-28-2006 12:58 AM                     I'm still waiting for Weinstein to show they're worth a damn. They haven't had a hit-or anything close to it-yet.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-28-2006 10:20 AM                     Yeah. And the Weinstein split from Buena Vista has gotten on my nerves because it is THE reason why there is still no Kill Bill special edition DVD box set.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 02-28-2006 02:07 PM                        quote: Dustin Mitchell They haven't had a hit-or anything close to it-yet. Jeez ... tough room ... Hoodwinked with a $15m budget grossed $50m in USA alone, and it isn't even close to a hit?  |  IP: Logged Betsie Beadling Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Fairfax, Virginia, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-28-2006 08:20 PM                     I wonder how to get the Britsh Voices version of Sprung!!! The Magic Roundabout though??? DVD players in my Home arnt PAL or whatever Region UKs DVDs are!!!  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 03-01-2006 10:23 PM                        You have to take into account marketing costs when labeling a movie a hit or a miss/flop. The average movie costs roughly $40-50 mil to market.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-02-2006 01:04 AM                        hmmm, in 2004 it was $34m, has it gone up $16m in a year? (I don't have any figures at my disposal) .... regardless, that is "average" in which you have to take into account massive films like King Kong or summer tent-pole pix like M:I:III or whatever ... do you seriously think Hoodwinked had an advertising cost of $50m?  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-02-2006 01:24 AM                     Wow, $50 mil, huge hit. Okay, enough with the sarcasm. Hoodwinked didn't open in this market so I admit it was an oversight on my part. Still, from the point of an exhibitor, that's not a major hit. And its nothing to write hom about for Weinstein either. Of that $50 million half goes to theatres, that leaves $25 million. I don't think Weinstein was the production company, just the distributor (correct me if I am wrong) so $15 million at least goes back to the production company. That leaves $10 million for marketing and profit to be split between Weinstein and the producers.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-02-2006 02:56 AM                        I never claimed it was a "huge hit" ... I just was commenting on the statement that they haven't had "anything close" to a hit.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 03-02-2006 10:05 AM                     The Weinsteins have been in the biz a long time with many successful flicks...given enough time they will come up with some more successful pictures. Their new company is still too young to determine whether or not they have lost the touch.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-02-2006 11:11 AM                    some of the movies they are releasing now they brought with them from Miramax.  |  IP: Logged

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