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| re: Big Monkey. Big Losses. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 06:45 pm EDT 03/11/19 | |
| In reply to: Big Monkey. Big Losses. - NewtonUK 04:26 pm EDT 03/11/19 | |
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| I was always surprised that this $35 million production went to Broadway at all, after Spiderman lost $60 million or so earlier in the decade. Some people, it seems, will not learn from other people's mistakes. | |
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| Look at Harry Potter also in $30m category | |
| Posted by: dramedy 09:22 pm EDT 03/11/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Big Monkey. Big Losses. - keikekaze 06:45 pm EDT 03/11/19 | |
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| And will recoup this year. I would think King Kong and Spider-Man had the name recognition and following. The scores suck and that is one of the major reasons they both failed. At least Spider-Man fights over the audience was thrilling. I really think King Kong should have used holograms for the planes flying over the audience attacking Kong. That would have made it more interactive at the end. Disney world haunted house has holograms 50 years ago. The technology is probably very realistic now. Didn’t Vegas have Michael Jackson show using holograms? | |
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| re: Look at Harry Potter also in $30m category | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 12:33 am EDT 03/12/19 | |
| In reply to: Look at Harry Potter also in $30m category - dramedy 09:22 pm EDT 03/11/19 | |
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| Yes, but Harry Potter has a huge international audience right now, and not just kids, either. My sister, in her 60s, is a major fan of the Potter books, and so are most of the other people of all ages that I know. King Kong, on the other hand, is not exactly a new franchise, and it hasn't been rejuvenated lately. The Harry Potter play also benefits from not being a musical--that is, they haven't tried to pull off something that is beyond the range of the creative people involved. As musicals go, King Kong is awful, and so was Spiderman before it. Both belong in theme parks--if anywhere--but are just not good enough to profit on Broadway with those ridiculously outsized production costs. They'd have had to run decades, and they're just not good enough. |
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