Here’s my advice to box office analysts and various marketing gurus who suck at their job:
Run a website – or make friends with people who do. Why? Well, let me tell you.
I sit here looking at stats of this webpage a lot and I also read what a lot of other websites are following – and y’know: Very few things are surprising. All I’ve been reading is people are “shocked” as to how well ‘The Passion of the Christ‘ did, and how well “Fahrenheit 9-11” is doing. And y’know, anyone running a movie website could’ve told anyone in the upper ranks that it would’ve been huge. — I could’ve told Michael Moore’s webmaster that his bandwidth would crash the first day the trailer came online because we were busy getting slammed with hits from people looking for it – before it even existed! And the day before and of its release, we nearly quadrupled our regular hit-count. Meanwhile stuffy people sit back not knowing how big this movie will be.
In fact, all of this stuff seemed so obvious in the first place, I’m shocked people are shocked.
I can already tell you that, although so far it sounds like it won’t deserve it, Alien vs. Predator will make a fair chunk of cash opening weekend. – Make billions of dollars? no. But it won’t tank out. Certainly not. “Hero” will make more money than ‘Donnie Darko’s Director’s Cut. And Napoleon Dynamite sill has a few sweet bucks it will be raking in. I’m not calling these concrete, but we’ve got public opinion pouring onto the page at 3-4000 people a day. They can’t all be wrong. And, granted we don’t have a recent post on the movie, but Catwoman is set to tank. Maybe I should make a post right below this just to test it out. Yes, that sounds wise. Here’s my proposal:
I’ll make a Catwoman post with many nice keywords in the title and report back in a couple of days what kind of response it’s getting. We’ll then see how well it does opening weekend and compare notes, sound good? Goody. And .. begin Test:
