YoungPrime wrote:Randomhero wrote:It still has yet to be released in a lot of countries but sure… let’s draw conclusions already.
What conclusion...?
Hollywood gets the most of it's return from the domestic box-office. This is fact! And at this rate it may not even reach $200M here in the states. Which isn't a good look. Sure international box-office will help but if you Google China box-office you'll see that Studios only get 25% of whatever that is if they're lucky.
So the only "Conclusion" that I've personally jumped on years ago was Hasbro finding someway to get all of their Movie rights back ASAP! Because Paramount trying to promote some lame crossover when they can't even get either IP right separately is not going to cut it!
Age of Extinction was considered a huge hit making 1.1B at the box office, of which 245M was domestic, 301M was China, with the other roughly 550M being the rest of the world. These movies have been more popular abroad for a long time. If you look at the box office trend film to film, the domestic box office has steadily declined, with the international box office growing with each instalment. Finally The Last Knight basically bombed domestically, but did well abroad, though not as well as the last couple films. People domestically having been losing interest in these movies with each film.
Mistakes that I think were made with this film (which I actually rather liked);
1) poor marketing. No one I talk to IRL knows this movie exists, even people who casually like Transformers or Beast Wars.
2) Not making it a hardline reboot. The vague plot and stylistic connections to the Bay films hurt this movie, in my opinion. Completely start over with a new design aesthetic for the characters, with a full story reboot that focuses on characters people know. Classic Autobots like Prime, Ironhide, Wheeljack, BumbleBee, Cliffjumper, etc.
3) The GI Joe crossover tease, while cool, is a bit dubious since those films have never been terrible successful to begin with. Are we going to bring back Channing Tatum as Duke or The Rock as Roadblock and just hope people remember they were in GI Joe movies that barely anyone watch over a decade ago? Both of these franchises should have been rebooted with new directions and, if people respond well, then cross them over. This whole thing with taking about a new trilogy and crossover films feels Dark Universe-ish in putting the cart before the horse.