Luke, you said: "I have seen little to no advertising for Scott Pilgrim, and *as popular as the book is now* it does not have anywhere near the clout of Watchmen."
Is the book really that popular? I checked the NY Times best seller list and it is trending HIGHLY on the Paperback Graphic Books list with 6 volumes on the top 10...but does that mean it has MASS appeal? It seems to me that Scott Pilgrim is selling a bunch of graphic novels...but the market for graphic novels seems pretty niche. I had to really search to even find the Paperback Graphic Book list! With regard to commercials, i have seen a few, and i watch a lot of cable channels like FX and Spike so maybe they are focusing their efforts on "2nd tier (or 3rd tier!)" channels? I saw Kick Ass on DVD last week for the first time and enjoyed it...i did not read the graphic novel so maybe i had a better launching point to enjoy the movie. Regardless, i think these are 'fringe' movies that will produce similarly to Kevin Smith movies. Clerks had a Box Office gross of just over $3M, Mallrats had just over $2M and Chasing Amy finally made 8 digits with just over $12M. After that his films have made over $20M but less than $50M. It may be that the source material may be too niche for a huge box office take... On 8/17/10, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Honestly, I think I saw about 2 commercials for Scott Pilgrim on > actual television. I think that had just as much to do with the box > office failure of the film as the competition did. Watchmen was > everywhere, and it hit big, even if it had a large drop off. I have > seen little to no advertising for Scott Pilgrim, and as popular as the > book is now it does not have anywhere near the clout of Watchmen. > > Regarding Kick-Ass, well, I haven't seen it, and have no intention of > seeing it. I was confused by the line about it being beloved by fans > -- most of the fans I know who saw it disliked the film. > > On Aug 16, 9:03 pm, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/565854/why_you_shouldnt_read_too_much... > > > > -- Shared with Google Share Button > > > > Interesting insight, even though the two movies are on opposite ends of > the > > suck scale- Kick Ass was incredibly disappointing. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
