I just saw the new trailer of "A Sound of Thunder", which will be available online. CGI scenes are short, but they are much better than what I have seen in the first trailer. However, overall, I think that first trailer is much better than the second trailer. In short, I think that the new trailer isn't good enough to attract many people.

Ot the other hand, this movie is from the makers and screenwriters of "Sahara", which bombed earlier this year.

BTW, since Franchise Pictures (which financed this movie) are dead, Warner Bros won't likely to give this movie many support. (Warner Bros is only a distributor of this movie.)

Although Ray Bradbury likes this movie, I still think that "A Sound of Thunder" will bomb very hard.

My prediction:
2/4

Old trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/asoundofthunder/

New trailer will be available online.

I'm going to have to wait to see the trailer itself, but I'm not sure. September 2nd is a pretty terrible release date though. It has a ton of competition in what's a just plain awful weekend to release a movie. Transporter 2 could do 15-20+ million that weekend, and considering how many people will go to the theater that weekend, it doesn't leave a lot of room.

Oh, and I'd hardly call Sahara a bomb. The movie easily outperformed most all expectations, and did extremely well considering the amount of marketing that went into it. The budget was high, but a lot of that was paid off through international investors. Paramount and the makers of Sahara came away on top.

MovieDude - au contrare. Sahara may have outperformed expectations [superbomb] but as it stands outperforming its expectations wasn't exactly an achievement - i know your a fan of the film, or your mother wanted to see it or something; but Sahara is going to have to sell a lot of DVDs to make up its budget. The studio probobly garnered about $28-35m from its domestic performance. They paid $150m minimum to advertise it in North America and then actually create it. Furthermore - its likely that the studio engaged theaters in a frontloaded pattern expectation; a deal which makes the opening 2-4 sessions sweeter for the studio; but the following frames way more profitable for theaters. Its not like Sahara had hundreds of marketing spin offs either. So its "Other Revenue" right now isn't likely to be huge either.

Anyway the A Sound of Thunder Novel brought up some amazing theories into public forum - but the adaptation dosent look like a total failure. What IS missing [and is fairly obvious] is a big name star. The cast is generally unknown and thats whats giving it bad buzz. High profile source material should garner a high profile star.
Still; it looks thrilling and i'll probobly catch a rental.

I'm a little confused. Which weekend is Labor Day weekend this year?

And, until I see the new trailer, I'm not quite sure.

This looks so SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

I think you're wrong. You have about 3 too many S's, 1 unnecessary H, and 6 useless T's. Take those out, and you're right on the noodle.

LOL!


Yeah, this movie will bomb. Probably no more than $15m total, could easiliy be less.

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Better?

Perfect.

Probably no more than $5m total, , could easiliy be less.

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I recall when Sahara came out, everone here was surprised at it doing pretty well and it was called a minor hit. A Sound of Thunder looks like a somewhat fun movie but I doubt it will make much. It could pull a Sahara and surprise on the upside though. The movie it reminds me most of is Timeline.

Not everyone, Archie, not everyone... A certain poster, who shall go unnamed, managed to predict an $18 million opening weekend and a $69 million total.

That poster, was me.

Isn't that thread due for its monthly bump?

You're right! :grin:

Michael - Paramount paid 40 million for domestic rights for Sahara. It was an independent production.

No, Paramount paid $0 for domestic rights for Sahara.
For US release, Paramount just release "Sahara" for a fee. (P&A is provided by other company.)
But Paramount did spent some money to acquire distrib rights in several overseas territories.


In fact, Warner Bros releases "A Sound of Thunder" in a similar style. (In short, Warner Bros paid $0 for the US release of "A Sound of Thunder")

I remember watching the trailer for "a sound of thunder" like 9 months ago.I thought it looked interesting (I enjoy time travel movies).The same thing that happened to "mindhunters" will probably happen to this movie.Open small and drop fast.I might go see it though if it comes to the local theatre.

Looks interesting but has a good chance to bomb given its low-wattage cast and release date.

The new trailer, which made me lost my faith on this movie, is online now....
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/asou ... ler_hi.mov

Hmm, it actually doesn't look that bad. However, the release date sucks and all the delays don't help.

$8 million opening, $20 million total.

The new trailer is very good, but I highly doubt that is going to have that much of an effect on the film's potential.

Opening: $9.5 million
Total: $21 million

If this movie can gross $20 million total, Warner Bros will be happy....
(But I think that this movie won't even gross more than $6 million....)

Since "The Island' bomb, I lower my prediction:
1/2


BTW, "A Sound of Thunder" trailer will be on screen with some prints of "Stealth"; but it won't be on screen with "The Dukes Of Hazzard".

I fail to see the connection between The Island boming. Mary, I think that you're just trying too hard for this to bomb. What movie has done that awful on more then 1,000 screens this year?

Not even Alone in the Dark did this bad