Harry Potter theme park rights?

[YoHo]

I don't know that Miramax Profited. I assumed that As exec producers the company gets a cut. Similar to a contracting firm gets a cut on the contractor's salaries.

 

[VintageKnight]

just a heads up..

to this day starwars is a joke....every critic hates it yet the public loves it. the movies do suck, but i'll still pay to go see them everytime there re-released...

an early poster said it was a hit off the top... it took 2 yrs for it to get were it did and a stunningly new type of toy line from kenner toys to get the kids to get there parents to go see it time after time, it was the late seventies "titanic". starwars was still in theaters when empire came out in some areas of this country.. only in the last 20 years have films only been in theaters for maybe 6 months then go to video ( vhs only popped up in numbers in the early eighties)

if disney had any options on starwars, at the time they were correct in passing it buy.


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[wtg2000]

to this day starwars is a joke....every critic hates

Leonard Maltin gives it 3 1/2 stars out of four. It was nominated for Best Picture, and well received by many other critics.

an early poster said it was a hit off the top... it took 2 yrs for it to get were it did

It was lined up for blocks on opening day without the huge publicity budgets films receive today. The toys came out when they realized what a massive hit the movie was.

if disney had any options on starwars, at the time they were correct in passing it buy.

Huh?

 

[Planogirl]

If you look up Star Wars at boxofficemojo you'll see that the movie took off like a juggernaut almost immediately. I think that Disney made a huge error bypassing this if they actually had the chance to grab it.

 

[YoHo]

First of all, Star Wars invented the Event movie.
Prior to Star Wars, movies had to be in and out of theaters for Decades to make that kind of money.
Star Wars changed all that.

Now, nobody lined up on the first day, people just didn't do it back then, but after the first week, it was a certifiable phenoma.

But, at the same time, you can't blame Disney for missing the boat. Fox didn't think much of the project either that's why they gave Lucas so many of the rights. Lucas only made the film because of the success of American Grafitti. NOBODY in hollywood expected what it became.

 

[VintageKnight]

I've been paraphrased...=D

nominations happen after a film has been released, critics jumped on the band wagon after it came out when the fans refused to listen to them.

starwars would have been stuck on the theater floor if it hadnt been for everything they invented ( special effects etc) that no one knew of... the film company didnt know what they were passing up...thus the good decision (not with 20/20 hindsite ) to pass on it....

I am an avid starwars fan, you dont have to prove things to me... but get the facts straight before just thinking what happened for episode one happened in 76 when it first came out.. the media just wasnt into it back then.... the hype was not there, the money wasnt there...

Yes, fox took a monumental risk in letting starwars be made.. and with out the special effects, flash gordon would have been a better film ( that said with chills going up my spine while starting to seizure.....)

Im rambling... later...


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[wtg2000]

but get the facts straight before just thinking what happened for episode one happened in 76 when it first came out.. the media just wasnt into it back then.... the hype was not there, the money wasnt there...

The movie Star Wars was released in 1977. But anyway. Get what facts straight? Who's said the releases of Star Wars IV and I were the same?

To say it was good to pass on it because it didn't look like a hit doesn't make sense. They get paid to find the next big thing. It's easy to pick out the tried and true.

Ask yourself this: If George Lucas had approached Walt Disney himself do you think Walt would have said no? Walt - whom everyone said would strike out everytime he stepped up to the plate?

This is from The Best of Disney by Neil Sinyard: "A year rarely went by when he (Walt) was not trying out something different and innovative in one of his films...(regarding 20,000 Leagues) Most sci-fi film historians give credit to Disney's film for elevating the status of the sci-fi movie."

Ironic that this same company after Walt had left turned down the biggest sci-fi series of all time. It's too bad they hadn't asked themselves: What would Walt have done?

 

[YoHo]

I'm a Star Wars fan to saw it in 77 (granted, I was 2) and your initial statement is disingenuous. Star Wars was a risk and you can't blame Disney for passing on it, but it didn't take Two years to become a success, it took a single week.

 

[WDSearcher]

Originally posted by YoHo
I'm a Star Wars fan to saw it in 77 (granted, I was 2) ...

I was a junior.


In college.


Feeling old now ......

 

[Rence]

Star Wars did not take two years to take off. It was huge from the start. One of the first movies to become that type of phenomenon.

The movie opened May 25th 1977. I was a college student in Montana. A week or two after it opened Time did a piece on this huge movie, Star Wars and how lines were forming around the block. Right after that I was driving cross country to return home. I stopped in the Twin Cities for the night and on the news they were showing the lines at the theaters for Star Wars and interviewing people standing in line who had already seen it a dozen times.

After getting home I took my girl friend to see it. We had seen the news and read the news articles. She was on crutches from a knee operation. We packed lawn chairs and waited in line for 4 hours to see the movie. This was all within the first month of release.

No one expected Star Wars to be that big, but it was big and it happened fast and caught everyone off guard.

 

[fella]

Originally posted by WDSearcher
Warner Bros. Parks has them. In Australia last year, at Warner Bros park on the Sun Coast, there was an entire Harry Potter 'land', with Diagon Alley and several other areas from the books/films brought to life. To my knowledge, they have not been leased out to Six Flags. Disney definitely does not have them.

Gold Coast actually...i can confirm that at least in Australia WB. Has control...and i cant imagine them selling it to their closest compeditor!