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SUPERMAN RETURNS two days earlier!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with the latest bit of my obsessive compulsive disorder regarding the Man of Steel. You see, today it was announced that SUPERMAN RETURNS on June 28th instead of June 30th, which means all those countdown clocks like the ones you find on BlueTights.com, will have to be readjusted to make up for the 48 hour readjustment. And ya know... you could see this at the inevitable midnight screenings that Tuesday night of the 27th at participating theaters! 2 days sooner! Woo Hoo!
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With for thirst! Supes! Yeah, baby!
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I know that IMAX stuff gets booked pretty well in advance. Holding out for the midnight IMAX 3D show.
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What was I trying to say? I was so desparate to be first, I ruined it forever. Say, I wonder if that has anything to do with the unimportantly gigantic box office that that movie that Harry can't stand, about the X-Men or something, is doing? What do you think?
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Im glad you posted first. Otherwise we would have no idea who had the first posts after a thread was started.
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this guy's turnin out to be a real jackass.
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I've also claimed Third, Fourth, and Last a number of times. Time travel the talk backs sometimes, and you'll see. And "turning out to be a real jackass", chickchow? I resent that. I've been a grade-A jackass for years.
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******Sorry, Harry, Lionel & Lex Luthor from Smallville are far more interesting. I
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You just wish you were first on a AICN TalkBack. Because it's _so_ prestigious. But you're not. Loo-ooo-oooser.
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Try and get that trend started why don't you...
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But I have to say, I'm just not feeling the trend here.
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Who the hell says looooser?
And the only people who still post "first" are 14 year olds and forum noobs.
Posting first is not prestigious. It's actually borderline fucktard.
On another note. I cant wait to see this movie. I just hope I dont get seated next to KevinWillis and all his 14 year old friends answering their damn cell phones through out the movie. -
Its just a pity John Cleese didnt say "First"
http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/sketch.htm
On a Superman theme, isnt the easiest way to kill superman, to just shoot him with a Kryptonite bullet - if its a problem getting him to stand still for the head shot in a given location - just use Lois as a hostage. -
...and I was thinking about some super speed related joke and the whole coming 2 days early thing... but thats just infantile :P
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Why only borderline fucktard? Why isn't it, like, balls-to-the-wall fucktard? Enlighten me with the expertise. And, BTW, I said "loo-ooo-ooser", which is much more mature and sophisticated. Which you would know, if you were really smart and first, like me.
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He's got the body of a fourteen-year-old boy. Shouldn't Superman have some bulk?
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Damn, I wish I'd thought of that. That's excellent. Anyone else think it's interesting that this announcement just happens to come after X3 rocks the weekend box office? I mean, if they'd been planning this, why not note it before X3 kicks some box-office ass? But, whyever, I'm cool. The sooner the better, as far as I'm concerned.
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because we usually got to see new movie earlier than the US release date.
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If so add me. I have no friends :(
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It takes a genius to have 2 videos and 3 songs playing all on the same page, at the same time. Text that blends perfectly with the background, awesome!
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youre obviously on xanga. loser
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Good job moog
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that's so sad.
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i have a friend now and his name is bingo and hes from switzerland or something. The list shall grow with nothing but AICN posters!
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I wonder if this move is just a US thing or if it'll be a worldwide thing? I'll see it on tightarse tuesday anyway.
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I don't know... methinks he sees some X-Men on his back, and some Pirates in the sea up ahead... Panic ensues -- Spacey loses it: "Krrryptonite", Bosworth starts eating(!), Rowwth parts his hair the right way(!), Singer turns straight(!!) and WB hires Tom Welling for the follow-up (!!!!!!!)
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For thirst?
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fuckers
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it's neat how Lex figures more prominently than superman, in the latest trailer...I wouldn't mind if they cut all the lois/clark/supes/jimmy junk out, and released a 30 minute cut that's just Spacey's Lex. F 3d imax, let me see that in a theater. Figure out a way to incorporate Liam's Ra's, and I'll pay extra...
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What a crock of shit. I can't believe were being shafted on the release.
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C'mon, Harry has an obsessive compulsive disorder regarding it. It's the "Kiss Of Disappointment."
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I think X3 has a chance to beat Superman Returns if only because of viewing habits. These mega weekends seem to only happen when the film series is in its second and third outings. I think the second batman movie will completely blow to doors off the box office but Batman begins was only ok. I think Superman will go down the same path. Yes I know Superman Returns is "Superman 3" but those movies were almost 30 years ago.
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...and unfortunately, it was almost as if the theatre was closed. If "SUPERMAN RETURNS" does have a midnight showing, I hope it does better. And if it doesn't do that well in the beginning, let's hope it will have the staying power that "BATMAN BEGINS" obviously had. (That is, let's hope it has staying power... because of it being so well made.)
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Everyone talks about how much this film cost--are they talking about the Singer production costs only, or does the figure include all the development money on the aborted attempts?
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If you like comic book movies. If you liked the original Superman. If you have kids. You won't like it if you've got your own Superman script in your drawer that they should have made, dammit, or you think movies about guys in tights who fly around and fight crime are inherently stupid. Otherwise, it's gonna be fun, and should be right there on par (as far as box office) with X3. Betcha a donut.
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I'm surprised they didn't do this earlier, but I guess X3's B.O. take justified them into releasing it earlier. I am really looking forward to this movie but still trying to not hype it up for myself like I did with Batman Begins. Now I have a question for all you "Geeks", I still don't know how a majority of you are going to say Superman Returns will "suck". Did any of you already see the movie yet? You guys said the same thing about X3 and it still was entertainable, not as great as X2 but still fun to watch. Oh, another thing, the movie is two and a half hours long too! Hope that is a good thing, guess we will find out on the 28th.
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May 31, 2006 8:17:09 AM CDT
Budget of $261Mil does NOT include ten year development
by regicidal_maniac
That would add an estimated $45-65Mil on top. Even the official $261Mil is only the declared budget and does NOT include the marketing budget which itself could surely run as high as $100Mil. All up this film is pushing $400Mil easy and the shame of it is how little of that money will be up there on screen unless Kate Bosworth's buttfugly wig cost $150Mil then I can't tell you what happened to the remainder that didn't go up Singer's nose or on personal jet tours and the expense of flying his mother around with him.
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Considering that nothing good comes out until June 28/30 anyway. June sucks but July is kind of fly with Supes, Pirates, Chick in the Pool, Jamie Foxx and another white sidekick and Snakes on a mutherfuckin Plane
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Regicidal_Maniac, just curious, where did you get those figures for the budget? B/c I heard in an interview with Bryan Singer that the budget was $186 million and that he takes pride in being cost-conscious.
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the SR trailer is a tie-in with SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKIN PLANE. Would be cool.. SUPERMAN AND JULES FIGHT SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKIN PLANE BITCH!
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Amusing drawing by OldGuy a BlueTights dissenter, a rare man indeed. http://tinyurl.com/ngzto Oh and the figures that Singer quotes are bullshit, the New South Wales government has mentioned the budget several times and there's no spin Singer and co and put on that, plus they always mention it in US dollars and then the Aussie equivalent which puts it up above 300 with conversion to our South Pacific Peso. Also people I know who worked on this monstrosity have on numerous stages in the project expressed to me the sheer enormity of the budget breakdowns. I have since seen these figures online attributed to various sources. The ten year dev costs can only be guessed at based on the details of pay or play contracts and the various associated costs of art, design and office space. It's probably higher but no-one wants to peg it at a half a billion dollars, which in all honesty it probably is by now. Nonetheless Singer cannot be blamed for those expenditures, only for his own 261 or more and I find it funny to hear him lie about the figures making himself seem frugal. The same bullshit as in "vague history not a direct sequel" even though they resurrected Marlon Brando's angry corpse to cameo as Jor-El again and Spacey is playing Hackman's Luthor right down to motivation and plot elements, also just HOW did Lois have Supertot if there was no nasty in the pasty ala Supes II? Bah. Fuck it, I'll try and enjoy it knowing full well that more than 200 Million Australian films could be made for what this piece of shit costs.
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not 200Million. Clearly. As if we make films for a buck a piece. Once again 200 Aussie flicks, all better than this, could be made for what this cost.
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... 5 of which would be watchable. Oh slam! Honestly, Aussies have told me they aren't so hot on a good deal of their home product yet. As with Batman Begins, Superman Returns budget is likely meant to build a franchise, so many sets I imagine will be left standing.
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I think it's the fact that few filmmakers want to just entertain an audience. That and we don't have a culture of screenwriting. There IS no industry here.
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But they say he'll still be working with them . . .dammit .. .
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Isn't that Cool News? Why is all the breaking news in the TalkBacks these days?
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...just to see if Harry, who is dying for it to be great, loves it anyway, forgives it its shittyness, gives it the pass he didn't give X-Men 3, which he wanted to hate from preproduction on.
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it's a LOCK.
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I got you mixed up with some X3 apologist.. That said, I am hoping they get Supes right but is anyone getting the feeling that Supes is going to be a critical darling but maybe not a box office darling?
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Say it ain't so! This is the guy who oversaw such Marvel movies like Man-Thing, Punisher, and Elektra.....
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Smart move...now they have two days before POTC and people won't be able to say their opening weekend was less than X-Men's.
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I would have thought it would decrease the opening BO weekend? Anyone knows how this works? I hope it's good, and i hope there are giant robots. SPOILER! Lex gets killed by one of his own giant robots. Probably. You know how those killer robots can be...
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I know it more than a coule days later.
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To my knowledge there is a A Giant Robot (Metallo) in the Superman Returns videogame but none in the film. The film is a half billion dollar off-broadway production of It's A Bird It's a Plane It's Superman without the snappy musical numbers.Anyone expecting Giant Robotd is going to be even more disappointed than just the regular Superman fans.
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May 31, 2006 10:29:07 AM CDT
The more I hear about this movie, the more it seems...
by rev_skarekroe
...like it might be kind of, you know, boring. Maybe for the sequel he can fight an alien menace, or Metallo or something bigger and more comic-bookish.
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and show him being, youknow, super.
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The talk is steming from the game (featuring said robot), but also the last trailer. When there is all the shakey cam and it plays like it's because Lex is using his (Dark?) Crystal. However, it also could play that a giant robot is causing the shaking of the old lady's apartment. This is backed up by a shadow passing by her window. OK. Peace.
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Sorry, I just can't get excited about this film at all.
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Superman Returning in the spikey space ship.
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There was a video clip posted not too long ago that included an interview between Bryan and two interviewers (their names leave me at the moment) there was a question/comment asked of Singer that "the film cost about $250,000,000" and he quickly said "Oh, no - it was more than that - definitely more than that". So this is a quarter of a billion dollar picture ... some country's gross domestic products aren't even worth that much ... I'm hopin' it's worth it.
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& the movie arrives earlier. If Fred4sure is right, Lex Lutor can unleash Michael Jackson on Superman and he'd be rid of him...
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you've just joined the 76% of Americans who forget to stretch before doing any physical activity.
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that this will be more of a love story than a superhero story. I'm not some adolescent kid who thinks love is icky, just don't want too much of it in a Superman movie.
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If so, does Lois think it's an immaculate conception, since Superman made her forget everything with a kiss at the end of Superman 2. Sort of a retroactive date rape drug.
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HILARIOUS! I vote Superman spin the world backwards and perform a retroactive abortion.
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This film is essentially opening on fourth of July weekend, which just happens to fall on an odd day this time (Tuesday). Don't films reserved for this spot usually end up opening two days before the weekend? Why are news sites acting as though this is a big surprise, or trying to figure out the reasoning behind it?
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Some of you are rather dim...no offsense, but not sure why you think opening on a Weds would incease the Fri-Sun box office take. Anyway, they pushed it back because they think they will make more money in the end this way, retards.
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seein' as xmen handed all the critics their ass this past weekend, i guess superman is tryin' to regain some thunder.
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It IS a surprise, because they just changed it. If they would have set this date, a year ago, it wouldn't have been a surprise.
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So Lois isn't going to remember Superman in this one? Or at least the events of I and II (thanks to Superman's kiss)? Isn't the studio worried that audiences will be confused, since she admitted the kiss didn't really work in Superman IV? Aren't they worried about alienating the die-hard fans who grew up regarding Quest for Peace as canon? This is madness! Are we supposed to believe that Superman didn't really Quest for Peace now? No wonder everyone is calling this film a risky move for the studio!
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I didn't know that. I mean I saw Superman 4 but that was almost 20 years ago. It doesn't make any sense for the kiss not to work. Fuck Superman 4.
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It's still common for films to set the date for July 2-4 well in advance, then push it up as the date nears. To be honest, I just assumed studios did this every year. I thought it was more surprising that they only recently released the poster for this thing, opting to use the teaser for nearly an entire year.
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Superman needed to take care of her Captain Hero-style.
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Yes, I know...and your point is? And, "abcdefghijklmnop", I don't think it is "common" for films to set a release date for the Friday before July 4th, and the movie it up a couple of days. I'm sure it has happened before, but it is hardly common. As has been said above, it is probably to give it more room before POTC hits and also to avoid comparisons with X-Men 3's opening weekend. With SR now opening on a Weds, direct comparisons will be impossible.
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This site is typo-inducing or something. Or maybe I should proofread or use Google spellcheck? Maybe that's just the drawback of a stream-of-consciousness rant. Anyway, you bitches know what I meant.
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I am with you in regards to spiting Harry, its almost worth it for this movie to suck, as much as I love Superman. **** Decypher - the answer to your last question is that Harry loves the taste of Singers cock. Can't get enough of it really. You know about the "yogurt" diet Harry is on. **** I really can't bare reading Harrys "reviews" anymore. (just can't sit through the 12 paragraph long story about being eight years old and crapping his pants on a long road trip and how it relates to the newest visionary flick coming from Korea) Yes, he is entitled to his opinion but how reliable is that "review" when its been telegraphed in from a year ago. A talkbacker said it best in one of the X3 threads, Harry does not reviews what WAS actually on screen, only what COULD'VE been.
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...Superman can't have staying power. Unless he learns to think about baseball. See what I did there? I made it about the ejaculation again. A doubly redundant gesture, given the way Harry's pre-splooged this production and everything associated with it (seriously, Harry...when a studio moves a movie you've decided to pre-hate, you always interpret it as a sign of weakness...but this is some sort of good sign?). I guess I'm glad he's jizzed for this (although I'm baffled as to how he can pre-love this and pre-hate X3 when both movies looked pretty similar to me based on their trailers -- like the latest installments in their respective film franchises). Personally, I'm just not looking forward to this as much as I'd like to. I think the poster above nailed the reason why. We've seen Supes on the big screen before. And I'll take it a step further and say it seems to me we've seen THIS Supes doing a lot of this SAME STUFF on the screen before. Singer's gone to such trouble to remain faithful to the characters and tone established in Donner's movie(s) that everything I've seen and heard about this movie makes it feel like we're going to recover a lot of very familiar (circa 1978 & 80) cinematic ground. In fact, the differences I hear so many people bitching about (the slight tweaks to costume design and how Routh isn't built exactly like Reeve) seem pretty insignificant to me. The Supes in the trailers looks and acts like Donner's Supes. Clark Kent is a virtual carbon copy. And we've seen this Clark pine over Lois already. We've seen this Supes struggle with his sense of responsibility versus his desire for personal gratification. We've seen Supes depowered and forced to crawl back to dad's phantasmal image for restoration. We've seen Lex kill people in pursuit of a real estate scam. The only thing we haven't seen before is the kid angle (which Singer has billed as just that -- the one thing Superman hasn't had to deal with yet), and I'm kind of predisposed to skepticism on that because I've seen too many kids shoehorned into stories where they weren't really integral and they didn't get fleshed out or developed as characters. Believe me, I hope I've just gotten the wrong impression (which doesn't say much about the way this film has been marketed), but I'm really not all that anxious to find out (which says something else unflattering about the marketing). This could be a decent enough film on its own merits. It certainly looks like a sequel consistent with the movie Supes I know and loved. That alone will get it its day in court. But the early reviews are going to help me decide if that day comes (too?) soon to a theater near me or waits patiently until someone reminds me the movie's out on video.
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I understand it's appeal because it fosters fights over the smallest typos' and grammatical errors as well as the usual manboy love.
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Give me the Kypto-Genesis!!!! Marty!!!!
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...with the plot of "Shakey's Time Machine" starring Michael J. Fox, I Dunno.
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You see Timmy, Christopher Lloyd, who played Doc Brown in Back to the Future, also played the klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III, in which he tried to steal the Genesis device from Kirk. What I did in my post was cleverly intertwine the two references. We return you to the TB already in progress.
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Pity that WARNER BROS. wouldnt consider releasing the movie on the same date world wide. We still have to wait till fuckin mid July for the damn thing, it better be worth the wait!
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...was the same dude who sent Marty back to fuck his own mom? Wow. How could I have missed that? Oh...wait...I didn't. And, for the record, Christopher Lloyd has never played anyone but Rev. Jim from Taxi. In Cuckoo's nest, he was young Rev. Jim in an asylum. In Buckaroo Banzai, he was alternate universe salmon faced Rev. Jim. In Back to the Future, he was Rev. Jim after finally taking enough drugs to figure out time travel. And Star Trek III was really a brilliant piece of film making, giving us a Rev. Jim's-eye view of a particularly scary acid trip in which he imagined himself to be the commander of a Klingon Bird of Prey. Now you know. Oddly enough, "Shakey's Time Machine" was, in fact, the proposed title of Back to the Future IV, which will feature Michael J. Fox as an aged professor Marty Mc Fly carrying on Doctor Rev. James Emmet Brown's award winning research...while fighting a heroic battle with Parkinsons. I now return you to your complete lack of a sense of humor.
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...that's mighty five detective work!
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It was Rev. Jim Bootay! BOO-TAY!!!
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...Bootay? I still don't understand why Chris Henderson (a.k.a. Buckaroo Banzai) didn't call up his posse from the Hong Kong Cavaliers to put the smackdown on Jack Bauer in this last season of 24. I mean, I understand that he couldn't have donned his Robo Cop armor, because that would have prompted Dr. Romano, leader of the Blue Tooth Group to call in Red Foreman so they could unload about a thousand bullets into him, but if that Fly guy and the Kurgan had shown up, they could've held Jack's hands behind his back while Buckaroo chinny kicked him...unless Jack got all pissed and vamped out with Bill or Ted (whichever one wasn't the surfer from Dracula) or something.
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They already had toxic waste guy and the other sort of non-descript crew member from RoboCop. If a coked up Red would have shown up, dare I say even Jack Bauer wouldn't have stood a chance.
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Well, if he couldn't get any of the Cavaliers to show up, he could have placed an emergency call to all the available Blue Blaze Irregulars in the LA area.
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Weren't most of yall in the theatre line saying "Hail Marys" and clutching your rosary beads praying to God that X3 didn't suck? Weren't most of yall riding along on Harry's bandwagon believing that the Rat was gonna destroy X3? Y'all will be striking the exact same pose in 29 days when Supes comes out. And (when) if it doesn't suck, you'll be riding Bryan Singer's nuts again. Trolls...every last bandwagon riding, fair-weathered one of ya!
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...but I think I'm missing the parallel you're trying to draw, utz-world. There were a lot of folks saying "please don't suck" about X3 before it came out. That I recall. I also recall Harry saying, first, he was sure it would suck, then, that he wished it wouldn't but it probably will, and then, after seing it, that it did, in fact, suck. Most of the folks who went and saw the film (actually watching and evaluating it as the movie it was rather than as the comic fan's wet dream that it wasn't) actually came back saying it didn't suck. In fact, many of them said they quite enjoyed it. So their experiences of the movie actually took them further away from Harry's position, which fluctuated...but not much. Are you saying the exact same dynamic will play out with Superman Returns? If so, then most of us who see the movie with a "please don't suck" attitude would come back hating it, which we all know is the exact opposite opinion that Harry will have after fluctuating slightly and saying it might not be the coolest movie ever but that it will be pretty damned cool and then switching back to super-splooge mode. I don't think that's what you were trying to say (hard to tell with all the references to nut riding and band wagoning), but that's what's coming across if I try to read your post like a logically constructed argument. Personally, I hope that's not true at all. But I've been wrong once or twice. Oh...and Gaius: I'm betting Agent Pierce and Red would kick each other in the nuts, bloody each other's noses and wind up sharing beers before the end of the episode.
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Thanks YackBacker! Now I'm just gonna watch Wrath of Khan instead. We've all probably seen this movie through everything else unoriginal from Hollywood. And I don't see how opening a movie on Weds. instead of Fri. makes a lick of difference. The die-hard fans will be there for the first showings and anyone else who wants to see it will see it whenever (which, ironically, is most likely the weekend). Laus Deo
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The last two trailers have made me not expect much at all. The plot seems dumb, and Superman's kid is dumb, and there are other dumb stuff. Unlike X-Men 3, I will pay to see this though, but I will be going more for the artery-clogging buttery popcorn than I will be for the movie. I think it will be a fun, enjoyable film, if a bit frustrating in parts. It won't be a "great" movie, but maybe it will be like the Matrix movies, which were bad films with some superb sequences. I've found that if I just watch the action scenes from Matrix Revolutions with the sound off, then it is excellent.
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Dudes, opening a flick on a Wednesday doesn't necessarily boost its overall income, but everything it earns Wednesday to Sunday is included in its "opening weekend" total. X-MEN had four days to earn its $122 million, and now SUPERMAN will have 5 days (the first two being weeknights) to match it.
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It's being released on june 27th at 10 PM in conventional theaters and I-MAX.
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Is of course Gay Pride Day. I'm surprised none of you antiSinger homophobes picked up on this.
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for the date of the Stonewall riots, but then the film *is* coming out (no pun intended) at 10:00 pm on the 27th.
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...especially if they're bringing it to theaters two days early. Hey...another sign of a classic movie - my local Woolworths are ALREADY selling the toys at buy one, get one half price. See, it MUST be good.
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an overdue library book?
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