Yep pretty much. Movies like this are routine over at Netflix. However on an awful service like atv+ at least it can stand out a bit. Just goes to show how hungry people are for new content during the pandemic.
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Launch Weekend Popularity of Apple TV+ Movie 'Greyhound' Compared to 'Box Office Big Hit'
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Yep pretty much. Movies like this are routine over at Netflix. However on an awful service like atv+ at least it can stand out a bit. Just goes to show how hungry people are for new content during the pandemic.
Yeah. On the tech side you want to hide your new tech from competitors and want to roll it out in a carefully controlled way. With entertainment you want to generate buzz and hype as organically as possible (as opposed to what Apple had done early on with TV+ with the formal press releases for new shows).
Watched it last weekend. Absolutely not impressed - but that’s just personal taste. I don’t like religious themes plus everything being (badly) computer animated. One would think they’d made some progress since “the perfect storm” but not so.
Same thing happened when The Morning Show premiered too. Critics slammed it because they wanted to make headlines by hating on Apple. Since then, some have done a complete 180. The negative reviewers will do the same thing here too.
I loved the movie, however they should have spend another 10-15 minutes building up his character in the beginning. I couldnt get Captain Sulenberger out of my head for the first 20 minutes he was on the ship. Other than that I really enjoyed this movie and would have loved to see it on iMax rather than at home.
Jurassic Park made $50 million opening weekend. That’s about 10 million viewers at $5 for average ticket prices in 1993. Apple sold over 50 million iOS devices in 2019 meaning they have potentially 50 million viewers that still have free Apple TV+ subscriptions not including the 30% of new subscribers just for this film debut alone. Those numbers could beat Jurassic Park audience size.
I see a lot of people are emphasising the need for a large screen TV. Rather than invest a lot of money in a giant TV why not simply move closer to the movie you wish to view. 
You are welcome.
You are welcome.
If you like the technicalities of hearing compass bearings multiple times, this is a movie for you!
i quite liked it, but I feel Sony got a really good deal selling it to Apple for $70m.
I would have scrapped the lacklustre love interest scene at the beginning. It doesn’t really serve any useful purpose and is not expanded upon.
i quite liked it, but I feel Sony got a really good deal selling it to Apple for $70m.
I would have scrapped the lacklustre love interest scene at the beginning. It doesn’t really serve any useful purpose and is not expanded upon.
No thanks.I see a lot of people are emphasising the need for a large screen TV. Rather than invest a lot of money in a giant TV why not simply move closer to the movie you wish to view.
You are welcome.
I think it's a bad movie, why?
* no build-up or introduction for characters
* lots of repeated yelling and screaming.
* after 16 minutus you think, whats the main story going to be, ooh this is the main story.
* no introduction of the villan, you won't get me excited from one coming through a speaker.
i can see why Sony sold this one to a streaming provider.
* no build-up or introduction for characters
* lots of repeated yelling and screaming.
* after 16 minutus you think, whats the main story going to be, ooh this is the main story.
* no introduction of the villan, you won't get me excited from one coming through a speaker.
i can see why Sony sold this one to a streaming provider.
I thought the movie was 'ok', but my wife fell asleep while trying to watch it complaining that it was just people shouting out numbers!
Serviceable by-the-numbers Tom Hanks fare.
A lot of people will have watched it since they're on the free 1 year Apple TV+ subscription and it's not like there's much of anything to see (certainly that's why I saw it 🤷♂️). In a couple of years nobody will remember this film.
A lot of people will have watched it since they're on the free 1 year Apple TV+ subscription and it's not like there's much of anything to see (certainly that's why I saw it 🤷♂️). In a couple of years nobody will remember this film.
Not sure why he was all bitchy about it being released online....It was good but it wasn't no "Saving Private Ryan" good!
And it was Tom Hanks who wrote it LOL
From time to time you’d see some of those big names trying themselves in different roles as directors or screenplay writers and it doesn’t really work most of the time. I just find it nothing more than a vanity project for them. Angelina Jolie and her disastrous By The Sea, which she directed, comes to mind as well. In most cases these projects are backed up by studios in return for a “favor”. Such as acting in a big mainstream movie by the studio.
This movie is clearly an experimental effort for Hanks as a screenwriter, hence this very mediocre result.
Since we don't have any real numbers from Bloomberg or Apple, we can only be talking about potential audience size. And the comparison was Jurassic Park on opening weekend, not Jurassic Park on opening weekend in each and every country combined. Back in the 90s, there were no giant worldwide opening weekends for films yet so the U.S. box office is still the largest opening weekend number.
No one is saying Greyhound is a massive hit, not even Apple. They are saying that it is in the same ballpark as big summer releases and that they can easily see the potential for big tentpole streaming releases to dwarf traditional box office viewers in the near future the same way that streaming music has already done so.
PLUS, you don't have to listen to the inevitable yapping someone always does. (Usually seated right behind you.)
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Yes, that was a shock. Equally shocking is the number of Russians - both civilian and military - who were killed during WWII: ~20 million.
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Jurassic Park was released in UK a week after the US premiere. The comparison was opening weekend. So unless you have access to all the numbers over time of both movies, this comparison is stupid.
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