Well, well, well this SUCKS. For all of us 4? Australians on here... I asked at my local cinema Birch, Carrol and Coyle - Chermside and they said that Nemesis was due for release on the (not the 1st as was mentioned at Trek Today I think) but the 16th of January!! BASTARDS!! Why does it have to be release more than a MONTH after the US!?! For fuck's sake - it's not as if they have to convert anything or dub/translate/subtitle anything!! Bloody distributing morons.
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
That sux if it's true. I was thinking the release date would be Thursday 2nd of January.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I hope it's not true... but the guy had the sheet right there. Try a cinema near you Dax, maybe they just majorly fucked up at my nearest cinema!?!
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
I'm not gonna get too hung up on the release date until it gets closer. The worst thing is that everyone here will be talking about it while we're still waiting. At least we shouldn't get it later than January.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, it's the 3rd of January in the UK. Assuming they can possibly spare a cinema from showing Harry Potter 2 (out mid-November, it's even stopped the Premiere of the next Bond film from being at the Odeon Leicester Square, its traditional venue), they can't promise anything.
For the most part, people here are usually quite good about spoilers. You can be certain there'll be at least one adolescent American twat who'll post something along the lines of "now that the E-E has been destroyed, what class does everyone think the next Etnerprsie (sic) will be?"
(NOTE: That's a made-up spoiler. I hope!)
When told off about this, the pre-pubescent punk usually hotly replies with a long tirade about how he should be able to discuss what he likes, becase the film's been out for two days so surely 'everyone' has seen it by now. When reminded that in fact not 'everyone' here comes from the good ol' US of A, he then tells all us foreigners we shouldn't come to websites like these.
He then storms off in a huff as only a spoilt brat teenager can, and is never heard from again. Good riddance. 8)
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
What I can't work out is WHY does Nemesis have to come out more than a month after the US. Even with the UK Release it's not much better.
It's not as if they have to translate anything - and it's not as if they have to size up whether people will go to the movie or not. Insurrection was the largest opening Trek movie in Australia when it was Released (which is a suprise - It thought First Contact or even Generations might have been - since the Series was still on TV then (well in 1995)
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
I hope I am the messenger bearing good news:
Over on IMDB they give the following release dates:
Australia: 1 January 2003 Germany: 2 January 2003 UK: 3 January 2003
I'm not sure why it starts a day earlier in Germany than in the UK, but I guess it's a special situation with Pottermania over there as opposed to the rest of the world.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
A lot of the time it just comes down to scheduling and screen availability. As I've already mentioned, the Bond film can't be shown on it's usual screen because the Harry Potter film is starting on it a week before and no way are they going to pull it from the biggest screen in London after only a week.
. . . Then again, the current release schedule for December UK releases is:
1st Ante, The 6th Riders Dancer Upstairs, The Lundi matin 12th Freak Out 13th Full Frontal Like Mike 18th Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The 20th Country Bears, The Sweet Home Alabama Hey Arnold! The Movie 26th Chicago 27th Pinocchio Transporter, The Werckmeister harm�ni�k 31st Sixteen Years of Alcohol
Whee. . .
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i've never heard of big name movies preempting other big name movies before. Harry Potter Preempting James Bond? crazy.
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
Bad news, fellow Australians. I checked the Coming Soon section of the Hoyts website and it confirms Nemesis as 16th of January. Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: It's not as if they have to translate anything
I read the news that the german version of Nemesis will be translated in November (lucky bastards, the only people on earth besides the producers who get to see the movie a month before it airs), so it would be ready for a simultaneous release on December 13. Only god knows why they have to push it back.
On the other hand, I'm quite sure my local cinema will do a special preview of the german version the day it opens in the US. And guess who's trying to get some tickets for his clan... Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Hmmm, now this is really hard to guess... Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
The point is that there is only a finite number of screens.
Posted by Proteus (Member # 212) on :
holly shit that sucks... i wonder why they delay it like that
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
It's just another case of the Australian consumer getting shafted.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
We have to wait till Jan 16? Little Johnny will be getting a letter about this. Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
LOL! - he LOOKS like a Trek-nerd! ;o)
ehh ehh Mr. Speaker... I proPOSE that we build our own ehhh GALaxy Class STAR-SHIP - Mr. Speaker
*here here*
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
It's also because movie companies don't want all their profits and expenditure to occur at once. If they can spread things out, they will.
It also enables them to judge how well the film has gone down in the US, and then whether to make advertising changes, increases or decreases in promotion money and so forth for other countries. Doing a massive worldwide advertising campaign and having the film flop is a lot more costly than having a massive US advertising campaign, having it flop, and then quietly releasing it everywhere else.
And, has been pointed out, there are only a finite number of screens. Movie companies don't want to compete against too many other big films, as that steals potential ticket sales away from them.
And I'm still waiting for the Powerpuff Girls film to come out over here, so you shush now Andrew.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Powerpuff Girls? Powerpuff?????????? Sounds like a breakfast cereal! Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
The studios also need time to edit out inappropriate content, like headbutting, one would assume.
Posted by Daryus Aden (Member # 12) on :
Andrew, can you imagine having to beam Kim Beazley aboard?
"Er, sir, we're going to need the cargo transporter for this one".
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
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