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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:48 am 
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After only a week in theaters, ALIEN TRESPASS is already on the way to DVD. It got mostly mixed to poor reviews and the box office was awful - barely making $76 thousand dollars nationwide. Even among limited releases it did through the floor poorly.

Again, I ask - just WHO are the Blamires and Goodwins of this world making their films for? Outside of film fests, a few nostalgic film critics and some in the know snarkers, what is the target audience? I find it a most curious and inexplicable sub-genre.

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I love that they make them, but you are right. They make them for me and as my wife constantly reminds me, I am an outlier.

I think MST3K lasted as long as it did because it was well written and a lot of the audience had seen those movies or movies like them growing up. My neice and nephews have so many more choices than I did as a kid. I don't think they have ever seen a black and white film and they are so used to CGI that anything else looks so hokey and fake to them that they have no interest. My nephew thinks of the Peter Jackson King Kong as the original. My son, on the other hand, has me. He is only 5 so I have kept the doses small, but he has seen movies like Forbidden Planet, King Kong, Earth vs. The Spider, etc. I'm not perfect though. Sergei's frame of reference for Star Wars is still Lego Star Wars and not the films themselves.

Late Saturday morinings/afternoons when I was younger, there wasn't much on that was kid friendly except for Superhost out of Cleveland. If Sergei wanted, and I hadn't blocked it, he could watch nothing but Pokemon all day. On rainy days it was either Superhost or go to a friends house (and watch Superhost some.)

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:51 am 
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L.A. Connection wrote:
barely making $76 thousand dollars nationwide.


Thousand? Yikes!

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MarathonVet wrote:
L.A. Connection wrote:
barely making $76 thousand dollars nationwide.


Thousand? Yikes!


UPDATE! In it's 3rd weekend of release, ALIEN TRESPASS eeked past the $78 THOUSAND dollar mark! A whopping $359 per screen weekend average on 5 screens.

Some quick math over the 3 day weekend:

- Assuming 3 shows a day, 9 shows for the weekend, That's $40 per showing.
- $8 per ticket average = 5 TICKETS Sold per theater, per showing!!

Like I said - just who do the Goodwins and Blamire's of this world think their audience is???

And, I emphasize - I did not hate ALIEN T. I just find this a most curious (not to mention, self-delusional) sub-genre. Just WHAT is the point of supposedly paying homage to a genre you love by mocking it?

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I justed looked at the current year to date box office chart on Box Office Mojo. Alien Trespass ranks #113 with a total gross of $82,250.


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Speaking of them "hilarious" parody films......

Not content to 'spoof' 50s SF films, Blamire is now taking on the Old Dark House horror genre with his latest - DARK AND STORMY NIGHT.

I'm sure Joe Neff has Blamire on speed dial for his horror marathon.... :lol:


Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYwq33JH8A

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SRCputt wrote:
I justed looked at the current year to date box office chart on Box Office Mojo. Alien Trespass ranks #113 with a total gross of $82,250.


Well, that's still 4 times what BIG MAN JAPAN has done - about $20,000 so far!

Hey, maybe we should volunteer to 'donate' some of the gross receipts from the Marathon(s) to help the totals for this pair of big "premiers"....

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It's amazing that either of them got any theatrical release at all. I mean how much does it cost to strike a print? I liked Big Man Japan more than Alien Trespass, but I also have Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman tattooed on me. Not exactly mainstream tastes.

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MEATFETISH wrote:
I mean how much does it cost to strike a print?


Well, depending on how the print is struck, I would hazard a guess of between $1,500 and $3,000 for an average length film.


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