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September is prime extra curricular activities month. The weather is nice, you have football and baseball practice. Other sports gearing up for the school year. The scouts do a lot of camping during the month. It is not a good month for a ******* kids movie. They were a month too late on release.
The movie is good. The exec who decided on this window of release needs to be fired.
The movie is good. The exec who decided on this window of release needs to be fired.
Hasbro exec: "So what you're saying is... that we should have premiered the G1 cartoon in some other month 40 years ago! Of course! We need to go back in time and change the cartoon's premiere month so that its 40th anniversary can be in a better month for Transformers One to release in 40 years later! We'll get right on that."
Well, great job, buddy, you got it your way and met a totally arbitrary anniversary date.
Tell the board how important that is when they ask why this movie didn't make the millions it could have.
Tell the board how important that is when they ask why this movie didn't make the millions it could have.
I have been saying it was a mistake to use the cartoon's premiere date of September 17 as the date for Transformers Day. Should've been May 8 instead, the actual 40th anniversary of the brand.
EDIT: Just found out that May 8 was also the day Paramount Pictures was first founded back in 1912, meaning it was Paramount's own 112th anniversary back on that date this year.
EDIT: Just found out that May 8 was also the day Paramount Pictures was first founded back in 1912, meaning it was Paramount's own 112th anniversary back on that date this year.
May 8 would have sucked too. Kids have term projects and exams to prepare for.
So do teachers
Really, middle of June is what you want. Summer's just started, lots of free time, parents will happily use a movie to keep the kids from running rampant for a few hours.
Yeah, I mean we have decades and decades of precedent identifying ideal release windows for these things. It doesn't make sense to buck that trend, especially now when what studios want is as sure a thing as they can get, for one sentimentally relevant date or another that won't move the needle where it counts.
You don't need to hit the exact date, it's the 40th anniversary all year long. It's not like all those toys with "40th" printed on the box had to come out around September 17th.
If someone at Hasbro pitched 17 September because it's the anniversary of the G1 show then someone at Paramount should have known better and said "no."
No no, see, May 8 would have been Transformers Day, and the movie's release date would have been later in the month.
Hell. Someone else at Hasbro should have said no. But definitely the studio, who should know about this sort of thing, should have been as far as it got.
Ffs it's just not getting through. There's a million other things they could release or announce or whatever on any of those anniversary dates if they're so bloody special. Gambling the return on millions of dollars is not something you do for the sake of that.
Ffs it's just not getting through. There's a million other things they could release or announce or whatever on any of those anniversary dates if they're so bloody special. Gambling the return on millions of dollars is not something you do for the sake of that.
Remember, the film was originally scheduled to come out July 19th, and then got delayed to September 13th (then apparently delayed a week more try and avoid Beetlejuice, fat lot of good that did.)
Given how overworked CGI firms are in Hollywood... it may not have been done.
Sad, seeing as the movie was in development for seven years.
Honestly having it come out in 2024 at all is kind of impressive since it was announced (with a cast and release date) only toward the end of April last year.
My impression is that the movie was mostly completed by then and that Paramount was trying to keep as much info about it a secret from the public until then.
My mum would also get us to the cinema to watch the film as early as possible. It takes AGES to get kids ready (they're slow, they forget things, are prone to minor accidents, fight each other, get upset easily, etc). When we take our G1 pupils out on school trips, we have to plan for all of that, so it really affects what we can do and where we can go.