EEEHHHHHHH???!!!
Mmmkay so this is what you said Frank:
"While the movie will undoubtedly be profitable, it was far from the box-office success we all hoped it would be. The strength of DVD sales this winter may well help the studio (and us) decide whether there is an audience for a third movie.".
What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Frank. Chris. We all love you. All of us love all of you - and "The X-Files."
As soon as my dissertation is handed in on the 30th September (the date that has haunted my for a year now!), I am going to commit myself to doing everything I possibly can to write, lobby, scream and shout for XF3, XF4 and beyond. I bought two of Gillian Anderson's original scripts (The Blessing Way and End Game (written by you!!!); and the Redux shooting schedule) in her charity auction, and am as big, if not an even a bigger fan now than ever. THAT is saying something.
It is sickeningly unfair (so wrong, it makes the 2000 Presidential elections look comparatively legitimate) to base XF2's success on ticket sales in its own right, without taking into account the fact that it might as well have been released in the same week as Titanic II. As sad as Ledger's untimely death was, it was virtually unprecedented for an A-List hollywood star to effectively come back from the dead to play one of Hollywood's most iconic villains in a sequel to a highly acclaimed blockbuster. If Titanic came out instead of IWTB at that point, it would have been James Cameron talking about 'disappointing sales'. So the fact The X-Files EVEN broke even, let alone more than doubled it's initial costs, should be considered a serious feat under these circumstances! Had IWTB been released even two weeks sooner than Batman, it would have been much easier, but still difficult in the face of the Dark Knight/Ledger media storm. Really, it should have been released either before June or after mid-September to really attract the attention it deserves! The Dark Knight stole Mulder's $967,768,741 fortune (worldwide, as of 17th September according to BoxOfficeMojo), breaking records for first and second weekends, and for 2008. It was JUST. BAD. TIMING. It wasn't just actual ticket sales of which Mulder was robbed, but all the anticipation following Ledger's death, and inevitable media frenzy that also eclipsed The X-Files' true potential. On a normal day, the X-brand is enormously successful, and needs a FAIR TEST!
This is so much the case that I want to devote my post-dissertation time to the X-brand, and will start with my already mentioned "Bring Back Tooms!" group on Facebook, officially to be launched on 1st October. As if Mulder would say in Arcadia: "Bring it on"!
Christian
London, UK
You may well be right, but unfortunately the conventional wisdom doesn't seem to see it that way.
"While the movie will undoubtedly be profitable, it was far from the box-office success we all hoped it would be. The strength of DVD sales this winter may well help the studio (and us) decide whether there is an audience for a third movie.".
What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Frank. Chris. We all love you. All of us love all of you - and "The X-Files."
As soon as my dissertation is handed in on the 30th September (the date that has haunted my for a year now!), I am going to commit myself to doing everything I possibly can to write, lobby, scream and shout for XF3, XF4 and beyond. I bought two of Gillian Anderson's original scripts (The Blessing Way and End Game (written by you!!!); and the Redux shooting schedule) in her charity auction, and am as big, if not an even a bigger fan now than ever. THAT is saying something.
It is sickeningly unfair (so wrong, it makes the 2000 Presidential elections look comparatively legitimate) to base XF2's success on ticket sales in its own right, without taking into account the fact that it might as well have been released in the same week as Titanic II. As sad as Ledger's untimely death was, it was virtually unprecedented for an A-List hollywood star to effectively come back from the dead to play one of Hollywood's most iconic villains in a sequel to a highly acclaimed blockbuster. If Titanic came out instead of IWTB at that point, it would have been James Cameron talking about 'disappointing sales'. So the fact The X-Files EVEN broke even, let alone more than doubled it's initial costs, should be considered a serious feat under these circumstances! Had IWTB been released even two weeks sooner than Batman, it would have been much easier, but still difficult in the face of the Dark Knight/Ledger media storm. Really, it should have been released either before June or after mid-September to really attract the attention it deserves! The Dark Knight stole Mulder's $967,768,741 fortune (worldwide, as of 17th September according to BoxOfficeMojo), breaking records for first and second weekends, and for 2008. It was JUST. BAD. TIMING. It wasn't just actual ticket sales of which Mulder was robbed, but all the anticipation following Ledger's death, and inevitable media frenzy that also eclipsed The X-Files' true potential. On a normal day, the X-brand is enormously successful, and needs a FAIR TEST!
This is so much the case that I want to devote my post-dissertation time to the X-brand, and will start with my already mentioned "Bring Back Tooms!" group on Facebook, officially to be launched on 1st October. As if Mulder would say in Arcadia: "Bring it on"!
Christian
London, UK
You may well be right, but unfortunately the conventional wisdom doesn't seem to see it that way.
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