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Paramount's Live-Action Rings Film Delayed to February 2017

January/February is where Hollywood movies are sent to die. It's nearly always a surefire way to tell what studios want to sweep under the rug.

goatnuke wrote:

January/February is where Hollywood movies are sent to die. It's nearly always a surefire way to tell what studios want to sweep under the rug.

I think that more or less used to be the case, and to a certain extent still is, but there have been quite a few movies recently that have done quite well for themselves in the January/February slot. I kind of compare movies showing in January/February to television shows that air on Friday/Saturday. You can occasionally have a hit, but they usually put them there to die.

xchampion wrote:

goatnuke wrote: January/February is where Hollywood movies are sent to die. It's nearly always a surefire way to tell what studios want to sweep under the rug. I think that more or less used to be the case, and to a certain extent still is, but there have been quite a few movies recently that have done quite well for themselves in the January/February slot. I kind of compare movies showing in January/February to television shows that air on Friday/Saturday. You can occasionally have a hit, but they usually put them there to die.

Wasn't Revenant released January last year and look how well that is That is unless the studio planned it so it wouldn't be in direct competition with Force Awakens.

xchampion wrote:

goatnuke wrote: January/February is where Hollywood movies are sent to die. It's nearly always a surefire way to tell what studios want to sweep under the rug. I think that more or less used to be the case, and to a certain extent still is, but there have been quite a few movies recently that have done quite well for themselves in the January/February slot. I kind of compare movies showing in January/February to television shows that air on Friday/Saturday. You can occasionally have a hit, but they usually put them there to die.

Wasn't Revenant released January last year and look how well that is That is unless the studio planned it so it wouldn't be in direct competition with Force Awakens.

bin1127 wrote:

xchampion wrote: goatnuke wrote: January/February is where Hollywood movies are sent to die. It's nearly always a surefire way to tell what studios want to sweep under the rug. I think that more or less used to be the case, and to a certain extent still is, but there have been quite a few movies recently that have done quite well for themselves in the January/February slot. I kind of compare movies showing in January/February to television shows that air on Friday/Saturday. You can occasionally have a hit, but they usually put them there to die. Wasn't Revenant released January last year and look how well that is That is unless the studio planned it so it wouldn't be in direct competition with Force Awakens.

Revenant was released in December for Academy Award consideration.

I didn't mean to imply that ALL movies released in Jan/Feb are bad. Obviously that's not true, but it's definitely standard industry practice to move projects that didn't come together well to those months because: A) theater audiences are smaller, and B) people who do go to the theater are seeing wide releases of Academy Award-vying pictures released in limited in the months prior.

A movie like Rings though? I doubt there's much reason to skip the October horror blockbuster prime-time other than the studio wants it to come and go quietly.