(...)
I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Ponyo:
It’s part of some studios’ strategy to release their films slowly, building on word of mouth and, indeed, award nominations. Unlike a “wide release,” in which a new film opens in more than 1,500 theaters on the same weekend, a “platform release” of a film means it will typically open in fewer than 50 theaters to start.
A wide release is usually pursued when a distributor believes a movie will be an immediate hit, on the basis of its existing fandom or a major marketing campaign.
The platform release, on the other hand, can be used to gauge a film’s appeal. “A platform release takes a lot of planning. The strategy usually changes on the fly through the response of public and critics,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with comScore.
Out of this year’s nine best-picture nominees, three followed a wide-release strategy, while the rest used a platform release.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
(...)
I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Esto lo explica todo:
Lionsgate recently handled the re-releases of his films in theaters ("Dementia 13", "The Conversation", "Apocalypse Now", "One from the Heart", "The Cotton Club", "The Godfather Coda"), so it's fitting that they decided to partner up with Coppola once again, albeit on a bigger scale.
(...)
I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
A borderline calamitous disaster (this is a good thing). So strange and uncompromising, genuinely kind of impossible to form an opinion on it. We will never see anything like this again, so it must be cherished for what it is: as pure an expression of a singular vision as we are ever likely to experience.
Unforgettable cinema experience...
¿Eh?.
Otra:
It's not for everyone. It’s beyond avant-garde. It’s beyond ‘cinema’. It’s maximalist. It's experimental. It’s raw. And, it’s real. It’s uncompromising. It’s inspired. It’s everything pure cinema can be: anything it wants.
I laughed. I cried. I had my mind expanded. I spent most of it's runtime in awe, my eyes welling up from the very first shot. Time stopped. 'Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS' hit the screen, etched into stone like the title card from some bygone studio epic, and I was transported. It wasn't just a theatrical experience. This thing pierced my soul and it felt like I was in a cathedral for two hours.
In an age of soulless AI generated nightmare fuel and endless platitudes about metrics, algorithms, and 'content', just when I thought it was time to pack it in and give up... I witnessed, once more, a real piece of human artistic expression. A piece of art so handmade, you could almost see the artist's literal fingerprints across each frame.
More than any other piece of modern cinema, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis made me believe again. And, sure. It may be "right time, right place, right state of mind". But it did. And at the end, as credits rolled, I looked at my two hands and committed myself to making more art in this work. Thank you, Francis.
(...)
I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
En la web de Tripictures -haced scroll hasta abajo del todo- pone que Megalópolis se estrenará en nuestro país el 27 de Septiembre. Sin embargo, ningún medio se ha hecho eco todavía. Curioso.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
A ver si se van haciendo eco los medios y le dan vidilla al tema, que de momento ni siquiera aparece en la redes sociales de Tripictures.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Muchas gracias. Entiendo entonces que 1500 salas (más de 1500, pone), está más que bien, aunque eso es con Lionsgate en USA. Veremos aquí en cuantas salas se estrena Megalópolis.
¿Alguna idea de por qué no se han hecho eco los medios -prensa y demás- de la fecha de estreno en nuestro país?. Es que si no llego a entrar en la web de Tripictures para echar un ojo no me entero...
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Ya Prime, pero lo digo porque todos los medios españoles dijeron la fecha de estreno en USA nada más saberse y ahora con la de España nadie dice ni mú. Es un poco gracioso.
No espereis una promocion alta hasta llegados Septiembre, minimo.
Pues yo de esta gente metía caña con el marketing durante este verano, porque van a tener que darlo todo para que la gente se interese y le den una oportunidad al film, especialmente después del recibimiento que ha tenido por parte de la crítica.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Se me ocurren dos motivos. Primero que TriPictures no haya emitido una nota de prensa al respecto (Y si no la ha emitido pues o entras en la web o no te enteras). Y el segundo motivo es que me parece que la fecha en la web de TriPictures es muy reciente. Yo he entrado hace poco (lo que no aseguro es si fue la semana pasada o hace 15 días) y en la ficha ponía "Próximamente".
No nos engañemos. Este film tiene un nicho de público muy determinado. Yo diría que seguramente, el 70% será gente que rondará los 40 años en adelante. Ojalá me equivoque y me tenga que comer mis palabras, si finalmente el trabajo de Coppola aglutina en taquilla una buena cantidad de dinero. Al menos que recupere lo invertido. El problema que hay en estos momentos, es que este tipo de cine no interesa lo más mínimo al resto de espectadores. Y si es algo más arriesgado de lo normal “como es el caso” entonces apaga y vámonos, porque su paso por la cartelera acabará siendo una moneda al aire.
Yo creo que esto ya lo tiene más que asumido, tanto su director, como las empresas que van a distribuirla por todo el mundo. Lo dicho. Espero equivocarme y que el film vaya viento en popa a partir de su día de estreno.
Saludos compañero
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Como dice el compañero tatoadsl, si Tripictures no lanza una nota de prensa, estos no la ponen. Y si lo saben, les sale mejor hacer un tweet o un post que una noticia completa. Yo me he enterado en Twitter gracias a Info Cine.
Aunque conociendo a Tripictures, no os esperéis una promoción de la leche.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
No no, si estoy de acuerdo contigo.
Por eso me está sorprendiendo mucho el desarrollo de los acontecimientos dado el tipo de película que es.
1500 salas para Megalópolis cuando Inside Out 2 ha tenido mil ciento y pico -y está última está arrasando en taquilla-.
Al final Coppola ha tenido el estreno masivo en salas que quería, aunque estoy contigo en que desgraciadamente no creo que consiga dar beneficios. Por eso creo que una promoción fuerte a lo largo de este verano puede ser fundamental... en fin, veremos como se desarollan los acontecimientos.
PD: La pregunta no es si BruceTimm estará en el cine tan pronto como le sea posible (ya lo confirmó e incluso dijo que de gustarle se plantearía repetir incluso, por ayudar). La pregunta es si se comprará el comic y el documental sobre la producción (MegaDoc), cuando se editen.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Ah, entonces ya me cuadra más. Aunque la nota de prensa de Lionsgate decía "más de 1500 salas" así que a ver en cuantas se estrena finalmente en USA. De todas maneras, 1500 o más equivale a un wide release -estreno grande- lo que para una película de estas características, se me antoja arriesgado y ambicioso.
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I read to live in other people's lives.
I read about the joys, the world
Dispenses to the fortunate,
And listen for the echoes.
I read to live, to get away from life!
There is a flower which offers nectar at the top,
Delicious nectar at the top and bitter poison underneath.
The butterfly that stays too long and drinks too deep
Is doomed to die.
I read to fly, to skim!
I do not read to swim!
(...)
-Stephen Sondheim, Passion-
Te me has adalentado. Lo dejaba claro yo en el mensaje que puse más arriba, que eso eran las salas en España, por si podía valer de comparación puesto que a mi 1100 salas en España me parece una burrada, incluso para un estreno grande como Inside/Out 2, y que 1500 en USA tampoco es un estreno tan grande, pero tampoco uno minusculo.
Algunas cifras para USA:
- Civil War, de A24 se estrenó en 3.838 salas.
- The First Omen, de 20th Century Studios se estrenó en 3.375 salas.
- Saw X, de Lionsgate se estrenó en 3.100 salas.
- The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, de Lionsgate se estrenó en 3.776 salas (IMAX y normales).
Diria que no es un estreno grande que Megalopolis llegue a USA con 1500 salas, pero tampoco muy muy pequeño (eso estaría por debajo de las 1000).
Los datos los he sacado de boxofficemojo que te dice el número de salas en el estreno (La La Land, de Lionsgate, llegó a 5 salas en el estreno aumentando a más de 3000 a la semana siguiente).