Re: "This Is It" will not top "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds"
Not on halloween. there you can expect that saturday will in fact be lower than friday, cause people who go out on saturday mostly don't go to the cinema.
But this was not the case here. As many people showed up on saturday as the night before. so the movie stood well.
My impression is that people want to see it, and in fact go to see it, without buying the 'rush' which sony tried to sell. they go in the time of their own choosing.
I hope sony extends the time it's in the theaters and allows the flow to continue steady for the weeks that follow. A movie out for just two weeks, it's ridiculous..
you are right. didnt think about the halloween thing first.
but i'm with you on the sony issue. sony's actions suck big time this time around
1) they dont let media see the movie before release because they fear it will get bad reviews. what happens? every media outlet writes positively about the movie, but only as the movie is getting released. so at first, people didnt know what to think about the movie.
2) bad choice of single: people started to question sony's intentions when they released a 1980s song, which turned out to be "stolen" from anka, a big pr desaster
3) bad choice of time frame for release: halloween weekend, with halloween being on a saturday (when saturday is normally the day where movie's gross the most)??? this is almost like a voluntary suicidal mission that sony undertakes here. i really mean, what does halloween have to do with "this is it", except for the 3-4 minutes of "thriller" performance in the movie?
4) bad choice of soundtrack album: no live tracks and disc 2 with only 4 tracks. i mean seriously? disc 2 has beautiful songs but when people go out and buy a double disc album, they usually expect disc 2 to have more than 4 tracks, no matter how beautiful they are.
this is it could have easily been the most successful concert movie of all times but thanks to $ony, things look dark once again. at this point all i can say is: go see the movie again and again guys and bring family and friends along, there's nothing more we can do.