Comments on: TRACKING: That's 'Iron Man' Crazy Talk

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:25:51 +0000

Looks like Leo “This pic is guarenteed to drop between 60 and 75. No way it does more or less. It wont top 200 million.” was wrong…… but a huge margin.

By: Evil Bastard

Evil Bastard — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:50:24 +0000

Oh Snap, 105 million opening weekend WOW who would have thought?

By: Jhonen

Jhonen — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:25:24 +0000

So….how’d this prediction work out for you?

By: Armand

Armand — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:39:00 +0000

My guess, it will open in the range of 65-70Million

It has excitement in his corner, being a new product and also the marketing efforts has been par-excellence.

Being new and no in-build fanbase, that ia as strong as Spidey, it won’t be able to open that huge and what’s more, it’s not a sequel.

Just hope it won’t bombed like Hulk. A complete waste. Should have titled it’ Brokeback Hulk’ instead:-)

By: TiminPhx

TiminPhx — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:45:05 +0000

If it stinks of the typical leftist Hollywood mindset, business will drop off quickly.

Transformers was pro-military and did well.

Jarhead and Lions for Lambs, while not action adventure films a lot of their advertising was totally opposite what the real nature of the films were around.

Once that word got out, people didn’t want to go see them.

One of the ,amy problems with Lee’s Hulk, was its leftist slant.

While these films will do ok overseas, where bashing America is loved, they don’t do a lot in bringing in Americans.

By: milo

milo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:42:29 +0000

Regardless of how well any video game sells, I don’t see it as much of a threat to a big movie release.

If the movie has people interested, they will take two or three hours off to leave the house.

30 million consoles worldwide? Sure, that’s a lot. But 300 million people live in the US. Even if everyone who owns a console stayed home, that still leaves 95% of the US free that weekend.

I could see a big video game hurting a movie only aimed at teens, and with weak buzz. If people were thinking about maybe going, I could see a huge game release putting a damper on that. But a movie people are interested in? No way, at least not to any measurable degree.

“It will probably make more money on it’s second week than it’s release.” Seriously?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:39:11 +0000

I don’t think you understand the effect GTA4 is going to be for the movie.

1. GTA4 is going to be available for both consoles world wide. That’s 28.7 million consoles world wide. Halo was only on one console.

2. Possible the most anticipated video game for two years. It was originally set to release Oct. 2007, then pushed all the way to April 29. A lot of fans have been craving this.

3. Though not much, but cut-scenes and descriptions have been released, as reported GTA 4 is close to being sold out in the U.K. and estimated to sell $400 million on release day. One day. Based on pre-orders alone.

4. Few to none new games will be released on that week due to… you know.

5. Who’s the target audience? You guessed it, but their at home. Price of gas, tickets, popcorn, etc vs $65 dollar game.

6. Through GTA’s history, the game will be addictive.

The only thing Iron Man can hope for is it being a really good movie. It will probably make more money on it’s second week than it’s release. The game industry makes more money than the movie business now a days.

By: writefunny

writefunny — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:39:53 +0000

What’s so funny is judging the consumer by the director’s track record. Like someone buying a ticket is thinking — well, he directed Elf, but then again, he did Zathura? Basically, if it’s good, it’ll make a ton of money — if it’s bad, it’ll go the way of The Hulk(what was that? A 71% decrease in the second weekend) I think the trailer looks great and Downey looks great. Makes me want to see it. GTA be damned!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:41:46 +0000

I don’t agree. IRON Man is one of the most liked superheroes around. I see this being second only to Spider-Man. nd, some of those movies you mentioned were waaaaaay off the mark of making cool movies with the characters. I mean Ghostrider ()bad script and Nic Cage) and Hulk (which was garbage, a month after this movie is a new Hulk that acts like the other one never happened.) This will be huge.

By: #1 fan

#1 fan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:18:34 +0000

Guys, this is going to be big. Seriously. We’re talking like, 450-500 mil opening weekend. EASY. I’ve been waiting for this movie for like, forever, so OBVIOUSLY it will dominate. Look out, “Titanic”!

By: Ernie

Ernie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:28:36 +0000

It will do at least 40 million, of course if it’s a big weekend it may even do 50-60 million. But don’t rule out a 70 million dollar weekend. Let alone a 80 million dollar weekend. That said there is a rumor that it could pull in as much as 90-100 million. Anywhere between 40 and 100 million for sure. But if it falls outside that range that’s understandable in today’s ‘download krazy’ ‘iPod’ ‘Pogo Ball’ world.

Way to hedge your bets Nostradamus.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:29:34 +0000

You are all crazy! This movie will open HUGE! 90 - 100 million. The trailer is straight up bonafide!

count it Nikki!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:28:22 +0000

How many of you are under 40 LOL? There hasn’t been a decent action movie out forever, and people are eager to see something really cool. The various iron men in the trailer are badasssss, plus the choice of music in the marketing is perfect. Every time I see this trailer, the audience cheers.

Also, casting Robert Downey was a perfect choice. He’s not so cool or pretty-boyish to alienate the self-esteem-challenged, but he has enough of an attitude and a past to make people respect him.

The movie will be HUGE. Huuuuuuuuge. Hyuh-OOGE.

By: Joseph Kastner

Joseph Kastner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:07:59 +0000

How will right-wingers interpret the plot as being left-wing? If I remember correctly, the politics of Iron Man/Tony Stark were pretty conservative, so if anything this character will please conservatives/libertarians. I’m as far right as you can imagine without getting into extremism and I am psyched about this movie.

By: Bartokomous

Bartokomous — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:59:16 +0000

I’ll be surprised at less than $70 mil and would guess at total BO around 210-215. The marketing for the movie has been absolutely everywhere and it looks better than the average crap blockbuster. If anything’s going to underwhelm this summer it’ll be Indy… they’ve been downplaying the hype on it enough that half the people I know don’t even know it’s out in barely a month.

On the other hand, they ALL know about Iron Man.