My kids love Moana, but this trailer seems like one of those fan made trailers where they stitch together random clips with an irrelevant voiceover.
With Wicked, I do wonder how people will respond when they find out that it's only part 1. The marketing is being VERY misleading with that point.I'll be surprised how Moana 2 shakes out at the box office. For a teaser, it doesn't have me excited to go back to this world.
Still . . . I have a gut feeling Wicked is going to perform well at the box office. Wicked has the feel of a pop cultural event and Moana 2 doesn't have the same cache. Plus, Wicked is very much cross-generational, family oriented, date-night oriented, can draw male and female audience goers, and like Moana 2 being released during the holidays.
As the PP noted, maybe the budget is so low that it will almost guarantee a profit at the box office? But, then again, D+ budgets aren't always that small (i.e. Willow-$150MM, Secret Invasion $200MM, and Percy Jackson-$100MM). So who knows.
With Wicked, I do wonder how people will respond when they find out that it's only part 1. The marketing is being VERY misleading with that point.
Yep, Universal doing the same thing Warner did with Dune. Part 2 is currently scheduled to come out November 2025.I didn't know it was only part 1!
I'll probably skip seeing it in theaters but I do think it's weird how the marketing is avoiding mentioning that this is the first part of a two part movie. The trailer looks like the movie will stop at the intermission.Fair. But the marketing is absolutely spectacular and awesome. Just look at the poster.
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I'll probably skip seeing it in theaters but I do think it's weird how the marketing is avoiding mentioning that this is the first part of a two part movie. The trailer looks like the movie will stop at the intermission.
I saw ads for Dune on Twitter and they said 'Dune Part 1' on them so at least I knew it was a 2 parter. The poster also says 'It Begins' on it, implying there will be a follow up.I cna't even remember - did they do the same with Dune? I guess I always knew that was two parts, but I don't remember if the commercials made that obvious.
I cna't even remember - did they do the same with Dune? I guess I always knew that was two parts, but I don't remember if the commercials made that obvious.
so at least I knew it was a 2 parter.
Here's the official movie poster.
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Disney has done the same thing with Avatar in its marketing. Avatar: Way of Water is not marketed as Avatar 2. How many people know that the fifth installment of Avatar (still untitled) is scheduled to be released in 7 1/2 years, more or less.
As Lionel Hutz once said, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since I sued the movie The Neverending Story. Ironically, a WB movie just like Dune. WB has been falsely advertising movies since the 80s.
One part, but two acts. I think the 2 part treatment will actually work really well for Wicked, they cut a lot of the original story in order to fit it into a 2.5 hour showYeah, but it's one thing when we are talking about proper sequels, where each one has it's own story start to finish, but there is a deeper arc. It's another where, like Wicked, there is basically no story resolution until the second part, at least, I assume - I have never seen it, but the play is one part.
One part, but two acts. I think the 2 part treatment will actually work really well for Wicked, they cut a lot of the original story in order to fit it into a 2.5 hour show
or when they get greedy and try to make a three part movie series out of a short story ... I am looking at you HobbitYeah, but it's one thing when we are talking about proper sequels, where each one has it's own story start to finish, but there is a deeper arc. It's another where, like Wicked, there is basically no story resolution until the second part, at least, I assume - I have never seen it, but the play is one part.