Agreed. I have been annoyed at going to movies for far longer than personal technology gave me the power to avoid the theater experience. People who talk. People who show up 10 minutes into the movie, etc.
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'Steve Jobs' Film Debuts Impressively in Limited Release
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Agreed. I have been annoyed at going to movies for far longer than personal technology gave me the power to avoid the theater experience. People who talk. People who show up 10 minutes into the movie, etc.
Avatar on my 46" UHD is awesome but in 3D on an IMAX screen was mind boggling.
Should have been a Disney ride.
It will be soon...
I'm not saying this is a bad or good movie.
I hope it's a good movie.
But I would like to see what people that really knew Steve Jobs, his wife, daughter, parents, Apple people, his best friend (Larry Ellison), Woz, etc... have to say about the movie...
I don't think so... really... wouldn't get as much attention as a man that everybody has heard talk about at least once, and is contemporary, and has videos of him on the Internet.
The Imitation Game is much more about a man, it's about an era, and about homosexuality, not just about a single man...
I think you'll find more moviegoers in NY and LA seeing it because they're fans of Aaron Sorkin's writing, David Fincher, and Michael Fassbender. I don't think you necessarily need "Apple fans" for the movie to do well. Everyone made fun of the idea of a Facebook movie, but it did really well. Why? It was good. Acting, directing, writing, editing, etc. That's all you really need.
I watched it in NYC on Friday at 6:30pm. The theater was completely packed and all the following shows were already sold out.
I liked the movie a lot. Very real and emotional. I wish the story didn't stop in 1998 with the release of the iMac.
Maybe a part 2 is on its way. That would be a good move.
I liked the movie a lot. Very real and emotional. I wish the story didn't stop in 1998 with the release of the iMac.
Maybe a part 2 is on its way. That would be a good move.
Only a limited number of fans have been able to see Steve Jobs over the weekend, thanks to its initial small scale release in only Los Angeles and New York on October 9. Despite that limited run, the Danny Boyle-directed film has debuted with impressive numbers, making $521,000 in its first weekend with a per-theater average of $130,250 (via Variety).
Although those numbers landed the movie well below any top-earning spot for the weekend box office at large (it placed sixteenth overall), that per-theater average places Steve Jobs as the fifteenth highest PTA figure in film history. As the rollout for the film expands -- 25 new markets and 60 theaters on October 16, and then 2,000 theaters on October 23 -- Universal has doubled down on its release strategy, believing the slow trickle to wide release will help generate positive word of mouth.
Universal hopes these limited release numbers translate into bigger returns when Steve Jobs debuts in wide release next weekend, aiming for a similar trajectory as The Social Network's $97 million overall domestic haul. Current analysts predict at least a $20 million opening wide release weekend for the new film, pointing to the ubiquity of Apple products, largely positive early reviews, and the audience's hunt for "prestige movies" at this time of year as the main factors for its potential success.
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I pay $11 to watch a night time showing. And I pay $6.75 if it's on Tuesday (half-off). I don't know what kind of theater you are going to that are charging $20. Of course, if you're counting popcorn and drinks, you can easily reach that amount. That's why I don't buy popcorn or drinks, because I don't like popcorn and I don't want to miss a scene by going to the restroom. There is something special about watching a giant screen and crazy sound that no home theater setup can mimick. Plus I find that I don't pay as much attention to the film if I watch stuff at home --- too many distractions (smartphone, friends/family). Of course, I usually go to the theaters for thrillers, horror flicks, action/adventure movies, and superhero films. Feel good dramas, biopics, and the like --I usually reserve for home viewing.
That said, I will wait for this Steve Jobs film to show up on Prime or Netflix
They've certainly done enough advertising for the movie. I see ads for it all over tv and the internet. I still don't have any interest in seeing it though. Something about seeing Fassbender as Jobs just makes me not want to see it.
Actually given how many movies get limited release it does mean something. So many movies are released only in New York and LA and never anywhere else. In many cases the producers/studio actually have to rent the theaters just to get them released. Besides being a requisite for pretty much all movie rewards some movies have contractual reasons to come out in limited release.
In the case of this movie the studio believes they have a really strong film on their hands and a slow grow roll out through the fall will earn them the most money.
Rarely do movies get super high screen averages in limited release and not go on to do well when released wider. A bad movie's audience falls from a full house on opening nights to crickets by the end of its run leaving it with per screen averages literally 1% of what was gotten here. I do think they said it was in the top five or top ten of limited releases ever. I suspect the other movies on that list did well.
Box office mojo has an adjusted list of limited release films that went on to wider distribution.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/theateravg.htm?page=THTRAVGOPN&adjust_yr=2015&p=.htm
It is a a slightly mixed bag but even most of the films with under 100 million grosses got awards consideration and critical exclaim. Red state was never released wide Kevin Smith toured the movie himself in theaters so it's not really a relevant example. Again though it played the minimum time in New York and la for awards consideration and to be considered a box office release.
The Starz reality show The Chair had two new directors make the same script and showed both films in limited release. The screen averages were 1k and 3k.
People get excited because often many smaller art house films only play in New York and LA but the reality is they also have every single horrible movie ever made as well.
This was a problem decades ago when cinema and high volume rentals/sales were only options for the rest of the US. That is no longer the case.
No matter how you slice it 127k screen average is a strong indicator of good word of mouth and likely reasonable success, minimally, upon a wider release.
Wow you sound like a cheapskate. Think of the transportation costs! And other expenses! I might be compelled to buy a $2 coffee afterwards!
So you're saying you think this movie will do better than The Imitation Game? Or even better than A Beautiful Mind?
Every film has an angle. This one is about Steve Jobs, but it's not "The Steve Jobs Story". A movie about Nikola Tesla would have to have an angle also. If you are saying that a movie that simply told the uncontroversial life story (or professional life story) of Nikola Tesla would not do as well as this film which decidedly does NOT try to tell the life story of Steve Jobs, then you're probably right. It would be boring as heck, except to a few people who might thrill to scenes of him dining alone, or feeding pigeons.
What?
Why do people go to concerts when they can listen to Music at home with much better quality? Why do people go to see live sports when they can watch the game from the couch with much more comfort?Funny guy...
No.
What?
Funny guy...
I can't figure it out I've not gone to a concert since I was a teenager and the only time I've gone to see live sports is dollar beer night.
What?
Funny guy...
those are terrible analogies. live music is not the same as a recording. live theatre is not the same as a movie, live game is not the same as a game on tv. a movie in the theatre is the same as a movie at home.
And also happens to be a fictionalization, "an abstract".
But don't take my word for it, take Aaron Sorkin's and Danny Boyle's own words instead: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/8/9482679/steve-jobs-movie-interview-aaron-sorkin-danny-boyle
I'm not taking your word for it. I already knew it. The hit Broadway musical Hamilton is also a fictionalization.
The hypothetical Tesla movie would almost certainly be one, too. It would take known facts, like Steve Jobs used the occasions of the Steve Jobs product releases and his denial of the paternity of his daughter, and weave in a story arc and also scenes of conversations that came out of the mind of a screenwriter.
I don't think I have ever seen a biography film that didn't take some liberties with the reality of their subjects. Can you name any?
The problem is that Sorkin doesn't know how to fill in the blanks or end the story. It still comes out as a series of vignettes that are driven by the actors performances, but connected by beats that feel far too much like one of Sorkin's assistants spent a half a day reading Wikipedia, jotting down the bullet points which Sorkin then peppered into his fiction. They stand out like sore thumbs. There are far too many times Joanna Hoffman mentions key members of Apple's staff by first and last name, as if Jobs wouldn't know who she was talking about (no, I'm not talking about Hertzfeld). It's just amateurish, but that's not surprising, coming from Boyle and Sorkin.
I can't comment directly on that, since I haven't seen the film. But it apparently isn't affecting most people's enjoyment of the movie.
There's a scene in Jurassic Park where a teenaged girl sits down at a workstation and sees a pretty impressive three-dimensional GUI. How does she respond (Remember that this is 1993)? She says, "This is Unix! I know this!" It completely ruined the movie for everyone, right?
Like anything else in Hollywood, we have a new trend that studios are scrambling to follow. The Social Network and the Steve Jobs movies and even shows like the Big Bang Theory are creating a "geek chic" trend with some of the following getting pitch reels done.
* The early Fairchild years with Bob Noyce and the rest of the "Traitorous Eight" leaving Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Imaged like a "nerdy Mad Men" as it was the same era.
* There has been talks of doing a Tesla film going back to when Nicola was alive himself. Issue has always been the Edison legacy in the film business. To this day, Edison's estate hangs a long shadow over every Hollywood boardroom where Tesla is still considered a nemesis. This current trend may break this prejudice.
* A Bill Gates movie about the early Microsoft days. The "Pirates of Silicon Valley" handled a lot of this with the ratings off and on.
* The early video game years with Atari finally exposing their totally crazy stories. Many of the classic Atari games were featured in Adam Sandler's "Pixels" but they specifically said the name "Atari" was not to be used. Supposedly this was done since a full Atari movie is in progress of optioning out.
* There is even stories of "early Internet years" with modems and local Bulletin Boards. It is a nerdy-90210 / Aventureland high school drama featuring local face-to-face meet-ups of freaks and geeks before everyone had broadband in their home.
We'll see who drops the production dimes.
Good move.
Too many parents have decided not to teach their children good manners. They should be seen and not heard.