Comments on: Spider-Man 3 Opens Two Days Early http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/ Blogging the Reel World Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:36:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kevin http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-9462 Kevin Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:50:11 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-9462 This deal with Spider-man 3 coming out in Tokyo, japan three days before the United States release is fine Asians my Asian people want to see spidey before the film opens to the American public. I think I will wait until it opens her in the U.S. that is just a waist of time and money flying to the far east to see The Wall Crawler. I'm not obsessed with this movie come on people it is just a movie. Kevin, say's I love my actors and actresses they all have inspired me to professionally act one day I will pursue that career eventually!!!. working with Tobey Maguire and kirsten dunst will be a dream come true!!! Kirsten I love you Baby!!! Kevin This deal with Spider-man 3 coming out in Tokyo, japan three days before the United States release is fine Asians my Asian people want to see spidey before the film opens to the American public. I think I will wait until it opens her in the U.S. that is just a waist of time and money flying to the far east to see The Wall Crawler. I’m not obsessed with this movie come on people it is just a movie.
Kevin, say’s I love my actors and actresses they all have inspired me to professionally act one day I will pursue that career eventually!!!. working with Tobey Maguire and kirsten dunst will be a dream come true!!!
Kirsten I love you Baby!!! Kevin

]]> By: Nicodemus the Sage http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-3834 Nicodemus the Sage Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:51:53 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-3834 Re: Speculation on the that this heralds a pending shift (forward) in its American release... I don't think so -- this is simply a smart marketing move by, after all, a Japanese corporation -- Sony -- tailored specifically to the Japanese public and box office and, after all, they oughta know whether it will work there. (Tuesday openings are pretty rare here in the States, but, in Japan, May 3-5 are a series of three consecutive holidays: Constitution Day is May 3rd, Greenery Day is May 4th, and Children's Day is May 5th.) Pushing Spider-Man 3 forward from its previously scheduled Japanese release date, May 5th, to May Day allows a couple days of word-of-mouth to percolate before the ginormous Golden Week (as it's known there) gets well underway. Besides, Spider-Man 3 isn't only opening "early" in Japan. Fact is, most of the developed world is getting the film ahead of the U.S., underscoring the fact that, despite the franchise's overt American symbolism and imagery, this is truly a GLOBAL film property: Belgium, France, the Philippines, Taiwan and Egypt are all getting it May 2nd, it's going into Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Israel, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia on May 3rd, and most of the rest of Europe gets Spider-Man 3 May 4th, along with us. We beat out Mainland China by a day, though, and America gets to open up a can of whup-ass on the Macedonian Republic -- the southwestern Balkans have to wait until May 10th. USA! USA! USA! I'm actually pretty surprised Sony isn't tossing Spidey into theaters in Japan on, or even just before, April 29th; that's also a national holiday, Emperor Showa's birthday, and is generally considered the traditional beginning to Golden Week. But, then again, I think 300 ought to have opened this evening at midnight. [Shrug] I remain, as always... Nico. www.fantasymoguls.com Re: Speculation on the that this heralds a pending shift (forward) in its American release… I don’t think so — this is simply a smart marketing move by, after all, a Japanese corporation — Sony — tailored specifically to the Japanese public and box office and, after all, they oughta know whether it will work there. (Tuesday openings are pretty rare here in the States, but, in Japan, May 3-5 are a series of three consecutive holidays: Constitution Day is May 3rd, Greenery Day is May 4th, and Children’s Day is May 5th.) Pushing Spider-Man 3 forward from its previously scheduled Japanese release date, May 5th, to May Day allows a couple days of word-of-mouth to percolate before the ginormous Golden Week (as it’s known there) gets well underway.

Besides, Spider-Man 3 isn’t only opening “early” in Japan. Fact is, most of the developed world is getting the film ahead of the U.S., underscoring the fact that, despite the franchise’s overt American symbolism and imagery, this is truly a GLOBAL film property: Belgium, France, the Philippines, Taiwan and Egypt are all getting it May 2nd, it’s going into Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Israel, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia on May 3rd, and most of the rest of Europe gets Spider-Man 3 May 4th, along with us. We beat out Mainland China by a day, though, and America gets to open up a can of whup-ass on the Macedonian Republic — the southwestern Balkans have to wait until May 10th. USA! USA! USA!

I’m actually pretty surprised Sony isn’t tossing Spidey into theaters in Japan on, or even just before, April 29th; that’s also a national holiday, Emperor Showa’s birthday, and is generally considered the traditional beginning to Golden Week. But, then again, I think 300 ought to have opened this evening at midnight. [Shrug]

I remain, as always…

Nico.
http://www.fantasymoguls.com

]]> By: Fyodor_Fish http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-3627 Fyodor_Fish Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:12:03 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/03/05/spider-man-3-opens-two-days-early/#comment-3627 Hopefully you're right and Spider-Man 3 will get an earlier-than-expected release. Makes sense from an anti-piracy perspective. If I recall correctly, when Warner Brothers released The Matrix Reloaded simultaneously across the world, it was to limit the damage piracy could and would cause if TMR were released at different times. Maybe that's the thinking here and we'll soon here of a date change. Hopefully you’re right and Spider-Man 3 will get an earlier-than-expected release. Makes sense from an anti-piracy perspective. If I recall correctly, when Warner Brothers released The Matrix Reloaded simultaneously across the world, it was to limit the damage piracy could and would cause if TMR were released at different times. Maybe that’s the thinking here and we’ll soon here of a date change.

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