Mielr said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
These days fan word of mouth can really boost or fatally damage a film.
Makes me think of "The Lone Ranger." Depp is blaming the critics' reviews for the film's failure and Disney has lost an estimated $190 million.
They can make some of that back with a proper OOT release. ;-)
What bugs me is that whenever a badly reviewed film like all of the Transformers movies does well, the studios and producers go "Bah! Stupid critics! They don't know anything!" But then when a film that got bad reviews bombs they say it wouldn't have if it hadn't gotten bad reviews. I can't work both ways guys. The Lone Ranger might've been an interesting movie if Verbinski has actually decided which one he wanted to make. It bounced from shockingly violent Peckinpah-esque deconstruction to knockabout slapstick. And it was way, way, way, way too long. The Lone Ranger and John Carter of Mars (I will not remove the "of Mars" from the title, even if Disney does) both counted as big bombs. I'm hoping that'd contribute to a desire to release the OOT, but we'll see.
Fang Zei said:
How appropriate that the youtube commenter put DVD in all caps. Yes, it was released on dvd, which unfortunately allows for quite a range of quality (the GOUT, for example, was an IVTC'd laserdisc master). But we still don't have the original versions on blu-ray, do we?
Mike O, there's nothing to stop Disney and Fox from working out a deal right now. They need not wait until 2020. It's only the distribution rights, anyway. If Disney didn't mind seeing a small portion of those blu-ray sales going to Fox, they could release the damn thing right now. The only real problem is the distribution rights to the '77 film are apparently Fox's FOREVER. I guess maybe that's something dating back to 1977 that didn't change when they voluntarily handed the film back over to Lucas in the mid-90's.
Yeah, theoretically no, but it'll depend on how much they're willing to share and build bridges. And with this much money on the line, I'm wondering if they'd be willing to do it. But we're talking about the dealing of multibilliondollar corporations too, I'm sure there's plenty going on that we don't know.
Fang Zei said:
DominicCobb said:
I think the sooner someone asks LFL about their position on the OUT at this time the better. No doubt they have a position, so it'd be great to know for sure what it is. And to make it clear there are still people out here that want to see these movies.
Indeed it's surprising we haven't heard anything yet. It's been the better part of a year since the Disney deal. Maybe the plans for the OOT haven't been finalized yet and they don't want to say anything until making the grand announcement.
Or maybe nothing is happening and this is all just speculation, which is far more likely.