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Cinderella Man

  • 30-06-2005 1:00am
    #1
    Kazaanova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭


    Why did this film flop in the U.S.? It's really not fair when films like The Longest Yard make more money than it. I don't want to get into a review, but the professional reviews have been really, really good. I thought this film was sure to make tons and tons of money. Its a guarantee that it will be picking up a few Oscars anyway.

    Also, I wanted to ask, why is this film released in June in America, and in September here? Do they do it on purpose? The only reason I can think of is that they see that time of year as a better time to release that film over here. But I can see no reason for that, the only other reason would be that it physically takes them three months to get the film over to Europe. That cant be right, because some films come out everywhere on the same day. Whats the reason?


Comments

  • #2
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    The movie reels are shared. World wide release dates are to help combat piracy.


  • #3
    *Angel*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭*Angel*


    Maybe because of bad publicity, Russel Crowe threw that telephone at one of the hotel staff. Timing would be a big factor in the flop.


  • #4
    Kazaanova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Kazaanova


    That actually makes sense, they released the film earlier in the US, because they enjoy their film being pirated. Now, Cinderella Man wasnt pirated very well, but had it been a hit, which they expected it to be, it would of been pirated like crazy.


  • #5
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    well from what i can see its not as well distributed as longest yard and other films. In the part of new york i'm at (central manhatten) i've only seen 2 cinema's showing cinderella man and only one of them is making a big deal of it. The longest Yard had huge posters up at every cinema it played in.

    so i put it down to mainly advertising.

    But its a great film, amazing cinematography and Crowe is good in it. But Raging Bull is still the better boxing film. (its better then Ali though.)


  • #6
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Well in a bid to encourage Americans to go see it, one of the US chains is offering a money back guarantee if you don't like it - and no, I'm not making this up.

    As to releases - it depends on who is behind a picture. Reels are very expensive so to do a worldwide release, you generally have to be a big name movie - Batman Begins or 'War of the Worlds' and so forth. Otherwise you wait a bit and send off the reels to others. There's also advertising campaign costs, etc. So this movie doesn't really have a lot of big explosions, and so on, so it's less likely to have been thrown into a large release.


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