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Current Talk '24 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp
« on: January 21, 2011, 01:28:10 AM »I just hope WB is so very excited about the DS movie that it may want it released in 2011 independent of the other releases.
If only it was simply a case that a studio is excited so they release a film as soon as its completed. But studios are much more concerned with getting the maximum bang for their buck than they are in rushing a film to release. They want their films to generate the biggest boxoffice possible. And to do that they have who knows how many people who slavishly research which types of films do best at which times of the year - and they'll also take into consideration the films with known upcoming release dates. Deciding when to release a film is akin to playing in a very high stakes chess game - and if a studio makes the wrong move, it can cost dearly. That's often why you'll see a film switch an already announced release date. When one studio originally announces a release date, they're not always aware that another studio's film will be coming out close to their film's announced date or even on the same date. Studio's will often play chicken with one another to see if the other will blink, so when/if a studio pulls their film from one release date in favor of another, it's often because they blinked, surrendered the date to the other studio's film, and decided to release their film when it won't have to deal with competition from the other studio's film. All of which leads us to the elephant in the room coming up this fall: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part One. I'd almost bet that Warner' Bros. doesn't want the Depp/DS film anywhere near that film, and it comes out November 18th. I would think it would be very hard if not impossible for the Depp/DS film to come out first with sufficient enough time between it and TTS:BD-P1. And even if the Depp/DS film was to come out afterward at some point in December, TTS:BD-P1 will still be in play, especially considering that many Twihards go to see the films much more than once. And Warner Bros. will definitely want to attract some of those Twihards to the Depp/DS film - and the best way to do that is well after TTS:BD-P1 has already run its course...
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Can Heinrichs do all of the advance location scouting and create all the sets all by April? It does sound time consuming
He can certainly do location scouting by then. But the sets don't necessarily all have to be completed by the start of shooting in April. Movies often start with location shooting first and then move to the studio. And even once the move to the studio is made, it's often the case that all the scenes that take place on one set are shot, then all the scenes for the next set, and so on and so forth...