According to an AP report today, Paramount Pictures is not screening “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” for critics beforehand. The film opens this Friday and obviously only a handful of geek-sympathetic bloggers have seen the film and unsurprisingly given it a rotund thumbs up (like keypad mash thumbs up).
But this might be slightly misleading. A) it appears to be written as Paramount isn’t screening the film to critics…so far… and b) a Paramount rep tells us a NY screening is coming soon and presumably is an all-media screening that will appear last minute. Verdad? If they didn’t end up screening the film to critics it wouldn’t be the first time (this is routinely done with low-grade horrors and we believe even the recent, “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” wasn’t screened for many crits) but gigantic blockbusters are generally shown no matter what.
File under: developing…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucc7xDLXXPU
Emotions are not based in science! Not emotions aren't rational, no, they're not based in fucking science! You have been schooled…
Ha, that clip is amazing.
They should have changed the "I'll get back to you on that one line," to, "uhhh, I was unaware that there would be no math involved here."
"Math is not physically tangible, and if you can't quantify or prove something exists…well, in my mind it doesn't."
*skips rope while still reading*
There is a screening going on Thursday night at 7pm, no details on which theater it's at though.
why not Friday at 3:00 pm when every one has left for the weekend and send out the email at 2:00 pm
This movie does $50 mil. this weekend, at least. Count on it.
I agree, but your point?
It's the latest in an increasingly large group of newer films that render press irrelevant. Nothing we say about GI Joe will ever matter, sadly.
Yes and no. Let's see how it plays out. Should be interesting. It cost a shit ton, will it make its money back and or earn a profit? Remains to be seen.
Getting $50 million on opening weekend is a decent bet but it might not matter. Does it even get to $150domestic?
Wolverine, which had a lot of hype before it, but leaked and got savaged by critics still got to $85 million opening weekend. But it sort of flamed out and finished with $180 domestic on a $150 million budget (foreign box office was additional $183 million).
GI Joe cost $175 (more than Wolverine, Iron Man and a little less than TDK, Pirates ?!). This can't be a huge hit. They've already screwed it up.
it screened last sat night in nyc.
91% on RT right now.
They juked the stats like hell there. I never see any of those names on regular RT ever and if they're there, they're buried as shit. The only real critic there is Emmanuel Levy and his quote is, "This cartoonish flick is not as cheesy or silly as Sommers' former work (The Mummy, Van Helsing), but it's like a long, noisy, relentlessly violent videogame lacking plot and character, with the robot-like actors marginal in the overall design."
Look, i have nothing against the film, and USA Today apparently ran a bullshit story against it and it had to be bulled cause no one on their staff actually saw it and i get that people are out to get it and it sucks, but Paramount's "oh we're not hiding the film," quote seems to be suspect if only 8 critics, 7 of them being very pliant are up there.
Hey, there's a trailer for Tarantino's Nation's Pride movie in a movie at Apple trailers. Not sure if it's new, but the Apple page says it's exclusive.
We'll see how Inglorious Basterds manages against GI Joe
thanks dude, I just posted. I appreciate the head's up.