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Cowboys vs Smurfs 21 Jul 2011 23:18 #36696

dsschoenborn OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 718 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	Well I can only get one. Cowboys looks great but smurfs has a hudge appeal from young to 50's. What do you think for a family theatre??
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 22 Jul 2011 00:27 #36697

jacker5 OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 854 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 8	Smurfs all the way!
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 22 Jul 2011 12:04 #36700

leeler OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1287 Thank you received: 10 Karma: 11	but the smurf movie looks soooo bad. I loves me my Hank Azaria but even he looks lame in it. Probably hook the kids, though.....
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 24 Jul 2011 00:15 #36708

michaelspaeth OFFLINE Junior Boarder Posts: 25 Karma: 1	Cowboys & Aliens...
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 25 Jul 2011 13:15 #36721

dsschoenborn OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 718 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	So not a lot of opinions here so we went Smurfs. Wider appeal and maybe some legs. We did not get to screen them since we were at the NAC annual convention.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 30 Jul 2011 12:10 #36755

TheAwkwardHawk

(This post is probably too late but...)

Smurfs as stated is definitely aimed towards the younger/family crowd and will probably bring in more $ to your theater. Some people will be going for the nostalgia factor but even that won't get me to go watch it. I was really unimpressed with the trailer, CG, the jokes, and what's-his-face,...Everything seems sub-par to the original series in my opinion.

Cowboys & Aliens is aimed at a totally different audience that includes, I would assume, the teen-and-up crowd. And with this film some of your audience may be well aware of film genre conventions (Western/Sci-fi/Disaster/etc) and how they are related and different... Anyways... without getting too detailed if I had a movie theater I would be showing Cowboys & Aliens opposed to Smurfs tonight. I'm more interested in film theory/experience than what I am in a let-down flick with the potential to score some money.

I'm going to see Cowboys & Aliens tonight at the local Drive-In. (:

Last Edit: 30 Jul 2011 12:11 by TheAwkwardHawk.

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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 31 Jul 2011 00:17 #36765

rufusjack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1353 Thank you received: 26 Karma: -6	Glad to have both. Crushing a year ago numbers.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 01 Aug 2011 08:50 #36766

dsschoenborn OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 718 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	Did great with Smurfs. I expected Cowboys at my country theatre to crush Smurfs but it didn't. Smurfs did twice the business there. I expect Cowboys to catch up a little during the week there.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs tie at box office 01 Aug 2011 17:28 #36769

Mike OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 4826 Thank you received: 32 Karma: 13	which means you could have gone either way and done ok/ neither broke out surprising/ except me: I thought Smurfs unimpressive... but the kids wanted something that I do not think they got from Cars 2.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 02 Aug 2011 08:20 #36775

TheAwkwardHawk	Follow up reply after seeing Cowboys & Aliens... It was dissapointing and could have been better. I did enjoy seeing Harrison Ford and Paul Dano, but other than that it seemed to drag on and wasn't enough action or alien scenes to my liking. Defintly could have been done better, at its best it was meh. A 5/10.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 02 Aug 2011 22:40 #36781

dsschoenborn OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 718 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	Around here most theatres had Smurfs as #1 I was told. Even in the week Smurfs is beeting Cowboys at my county theatre.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 02 Aug 2011 23:43 #36784

rufusjack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1353 Thank you received: 26 Karma: -6	Dave, Easy to verify on Rentrak.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 05 Aug 2011 08:56 #36810

dsschoenborn OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 718 Thank you received: 6 Karma: 1	Yes it is but it takes time to navigate. I just let my booker tell me the numbers since they watch Rentrek a lot more than I. Besides that is why I pay a booker.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 05 Aug 2011 22:16 #36815

rufusjack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1353 Thank you received: 26 Karma: -6	Takes 3-4 clicks at most. Less than a minute. Can get the info 24 hours a day. I get the feeling very few people are using Rentrak at all. What a shame.
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Re: Cowboys vs Smurfs 05 Aug 2011 23:45 #36816

rufusjack OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1353 Thank you received: 26 Karma: -6	As I am sitting at my desk waiting for the last movie to get out, It seemed like Planet of the Apes was a bit weak tonight. In less than 1 minute on Rentrak's site I saw that our numbers were pretty much in line (where we normally are) with the rest of the theaters in my area. How many bookers are working at 11:44 pm on a Friday? Larry? Slap? Mike? Richard?
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