ALL Friday The 13th - Talkback

[HaiTien78]

300 opened in march with a 3 day weekend total of approx 70mil http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=300.htm

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Well I was referring to single day openings between January and March but fair enough with whatever you are trying to prove.

It's very good for a horror film. Also, you have to look at the box office take vs. how much it cost the studio to make the film. Rob Zombie's HalloweeN made 30 million over its opening weekend and was considered successful enough to warrant a sequel. Films like this usually do not cost that much to make. Also, as has been mentioned, 19 mil is friday ONLY.

You have a point these types of slasher films are cheap to make so an average opening does make sense to be enough to put a sequel into production .

 

[KingRanger]

Well I was referring to single day openings between January and March but fair enough with whatever you are trying to prove.



You have a point these types of slasher films are cheap to make so an average opening does make sense to be enough to put a sequel into production .

I was trying to show you that you are wrong when you say it's an average opening for this time of year. Friday the 13th is now the #5 money maker for any movies opening in February. Exactly how is that average? I guess if you totaled up all the single day openings from Jan 1 to March 31 it might come out average, but for openings in the month of february, which are usually dead, it did better than average.

 

[Forever Knight]

Gonna check the flick out tonight or tomorrow. I can't wait.

 

[HaiTien78]

I was trying to show you that you are wrong when you say it's an average opening for this time of year. Friday the 13th is now the #5 money maker for any movies opening in February. Exactly how is that average? I guess if you totaled up all the single day openings from Jan 1 to March 31 it might come out average, but for openings in the month of february, which are usually dead, it did better than average.

Well I wasn't referring to just February in the first place, pretty much most of Q1 is what I was referring to. You also need to factor in marketing, Friday the 13th was well marketed, I saw tons of TV spots on the appropriate channels and times, ads are on every high traffic website, it had the right release date. Usually films like those around this time of year break the 24 Mil line. If a film with virtually no marketing (something like Legend of Chun Li) made 19 Mil around this time of the year on opening that would be a huge success.

 

[KAGEKI]

Gonna check the flick out tonight or tomorrow. I can't wait.

Who you're going out with?

 

[Forever Knight]

Who you're going out with?

Bolt's Mom.


So the flick fucking rocked, nothing scary but it was fun to watch people get murdered by the Icon himself. My fav one was when the girl was under the wooden dock and Jay sliced the sword into her head and pulled her up and her tits flopped. Loved that.

The end of the flick really got me pumped when Jason jumped out of the water and grabbed the girl, just like in the original but with him as a kid.

Excellent flick. I wanna buy the Todd McFarlane toy right now, or buy a mask and stab people with a plastic butter knife.

 

[Bolt]

I'd appreciate it if you didn't make jokes about me.

Also, you might want to put that ending in spoiler tags for more sensitive viewers.

 

[Forever Knight]

Anyone have a pic of and/or buy the Todd McFarlane Jason fig yet? (moc).

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

 

[Forever Knight]

Awesomeness. I wanna collect all of the Jason figs but I've been told some are so hard/expensive to get ahold of right now.