Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Thunderbirds Are A NoGo

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Posted by Jonathan M. Crist (Member # 413) on 07-27-2004, 04:32 PM:

In an annoucement on Monday July 26 (which tells you just what Universal thinks of its own picture's chances) Universal announced that the release of Thunderbirds scheduled for this Friday July 30th has been postponed. It is uncertain for how long it will be postponed or if this wonderful release (which I know we have all been waiting for) will ever see the light of day (other than on home video).

Posted by Ryan Luby (Member # 2520) on 07-27-2004, 04:53 PM:

But it looked so good..
[Wink]

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 07-27-2004, 05:03 PM:

I haven't been into work today, but our website has the Friday shows up for sale for Thunderbirds. Hmmmmm....

AJG

Posted by Eric Hooper (Member # 1730) on 07-27-2004, 05:28 PM:

There are advance ticket sales available on Fandango...

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-27-2004, 06:34 PM:

Hmmmmmm absolutly no word from our home office on this. As of now this sounds like false information.

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 07-27-2004, 07:14 PM:

Late Tuesday here and my bookings have yet to reflect this change...

Maybe this falls under the "Wish it were true" category??

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 07-27-2004, 07:39 PM:

Do you have a verifiable source you can attribute this to? The film's official website still lists Friday as the release date. This late a pull by a major studio would be an unprecedented move, yet none of the on-line entertainment news services (Variety, IMDB, Hollywood Reporter, WENN) has any report of this. Also, Ben Kingsley has been making the TV rounds all day plugging the film and its "this weekend" release date.

Are you sure about this?

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 07-27-2004, 07:40 PM:

Technicolor is scheduled to deliver this print tomorrow.

I just saw an ad that said 'opening Friday'.

Somebody been tokin' on the pipe a bit much?

[Wink]

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 07-27-2004, 07:45 PM:

Still on the "official" Thunderbirds website:

http://www.thunderbirdsmovie.com/enter.html

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Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 07-27-2004, 09:07 PM:

we too are booked for this...you'd think Ben Kingsley would know eh?

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 07-28-2004, 11:32 AM:

Yahoo! has annoying popups for it everywhere saying it starts this Friday.

I think we've all been the victims of "Bad Intelligence" (again).

WITCH! WITCH! [Razz]

=TMP=

Posted by Mike Spaeth (Member # 524) on 07-28-2004, 03:59 PM:

Maybe it's just your theater. They pulled it from 2 of ours on Monday afternoon ... They were cancelling as many dates as they could.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 07-30-2004, 10:46 AM:

Sounds like they pulled back on the number of prints released. We are playing it in one auditorium starting today.

[Big Grin]

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 07-31-2004, 04:20 AM:

It's at all the normal places around here... except for one of the multis, which is tied up with extra prints of "Bourne".

Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 07-31-2004, 05:18 AM:

Well, we've been showing it at my theater today. Showing it in a (142)seat auditorium during the morning + 1st matinee and then moving it to a (211)seat auditorium for the 2nd matinee + twilight... and then back to the (142)seat for the 1st prime + 2nd prime. Man... I'm feeling really sorry for the people who have to keep moving the prints. This is not the only movie being moved around a couple of times. About 11 prints maybe alittle less will be moved at least once today.

Posted by Kyle McEachern (Member # 2250) on 07-31-2004, 01:05 PM:

quote: Jennifer Pan
About 11 prints maybe alittle less will be moved at least once today.

Just don't show them the pictures of Brad's booth with the "never move a print" setup...they might break down in tears and quit on the spot.

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 08-01-2004, 11:02 PM:

I think we can now officially say "Thunderbirds are a no-go".

$2,654,000 weekend gross
2,057 screens
$1,290 avg. per screen
12th place overall

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 08-02-2004, 09:47 AM:

The string puppets from the original T.V. series would have made it more campy [Razz]

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