Comments on: Cage wants in on Spidey action; WANTED moves to summer slot http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/12/06/cage-wants-in-on-spidey-action-wanted-moves-to-summer-slot/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: rich http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/12/06/cage-wants-in-on-spidey-action-wanted-moves-to-summer-slot/#comment-606614 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:12:51 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/12/06/cage-wants-in-on-spidey-action-wanted-moves-to-summer-slot/#comment-606614 More comic films that I won't bother watching ... If talented writers worked on these films, and untalented writers didn't revise/rewrite the hell out of them, it could be interesting. I don't understand why comic book movies can't follow the James Bond format. BATMAN BEGINS did it successfully. If you MUST have two villains, make one villain the lead, and make the other a subordinant or another antagonist to the villain. Or why not two separate storylines that don't require the two villains to meet? Goldfinger/Oddjob Rás Al Ghul/Scarecrow Well done. Riddler/Two Face Catwoman/Penguin NOT well done. Easy. More comic films that I won’t bother watching …

If talented writers worked on these films, and untalented writers didn’t revise/rewrite the hell out of them, it could be interesting.

I don’t understand why comic book movies can’t follow the James Bond format. BATMAN BEGINS did it successfully. If you MUST have two villains, make one villain the lead, and make the other a subordinant or another antagonist to the villain. Or why not two separate storylines that don’t require the two villains to meet?

Goldfinger/Oddjob
Rás Al Ghul/Scarecrow

Well done.

Riddler/Two Face
Catwoman/Penguin

NOT well done.

Easy.

]]> by: Jimmie Robinson http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/12/06/cage-wants-in-on-spidey-action-wanted-moves-to-summer-slot/#comment-606098 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:42:12 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/12/06/cage-wants-in-on-spidey-action-wanted-moves-to-summer-slot/#comment-606098 Actually Spring 2008 is pretty crowded for theaters. Moving the film Wanted to a Summer slot is a smart move. Only a fool would crowd in on Speed Racer, Indiana Jones, Narnia 2, and Iron Man all in the SAME month! However, this new release slot isn't all that safe... The Incredible Hulk will still be on screen two weeks earlier. (though nowadays "two weeks" is plenty of time to cool a movie). Two and three weeks after Wanted the new Hellboy and Batman film arrives. Seems they're trying to set up in the "eye of the hurricane". If they're hoping to get some "legs" on this new time slot they are playing with fire. August /September would have been a better bet. Actually Spring 2008 is pretty crowded for theaters.
Moving the film Wanted to a Summer slot is a smart move.
Only a fool would crowd in on Speed Racer, Indiana Jones, Narnia 2, and Iron Man all in the SAME month! However, this new release slot isn’t all that safe… The Incredible Hulk will still be on screen two weeks earlier. (though nowadays “two weeks” is plenty of time to cool a movie).

Two and three weeks after Wanted the new Hellboy and Batman film arrives. Seems they’re trying to set up in the “eye of the hurricane”. If they’re hoping to get some “legs” on this new time slot they are playing with fire. August /September would have been a better bet.

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