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Title: Strange Magic
Post by: Phrubruh on November 25, 2014, 12:24 AM

The trailer for the new Lucasfilm Strange Magic is in line. It looks a lot like Epic. Hopefully it has a decent story. Unfortunately it says it is from the mind of George Luca .

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Nathan on November 25, 2014, 01:34 AM

Interesting. The visuals look great, at least. Although the leaden use of pop music isn't doing it any favors. Yeesh.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Pete_Fett on November 25, 2014, 12:37 PM

Quote from: Nathan on November 25, 2014, 01:34 AM

Interesting. The visuals look great, at least. Although the leaden use of pop music isn't doing it any favors. Yeesh.

Totally cringe-worthy - just that alone will be enough for parents to not even go near this and steer their kids away from it...

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Nathan on November 25, 2014, 10:03 PM

Yeah, at first I hoped it was just overlay for the trailer, but nope, the characters are clearly singing. Repeatedly. :-X

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Phrubruh on November 25, 2014, 10:08 PM

So I guess this is another cg movie made by ILM just like Rango.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Diddly on January 24, 2015, 07:29 PM

"In ninth place [on Friday], Strange Magic flopped with an estimated $1.3 million. It's on track to earn less than $5 million for the three-day weekend, which will qualify as one of the worst debuts ever for a movie playing at over 3,000 locations." (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4008&p=.htm)

Another home run for Lucasfilm!

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Nathan on January 24, 2015, 11:11 PM

Wow, that's a hell of a bomb.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Diddly on January 25, 2015, 11:21 PM

"George Lucas' Strange Magic opened to an estimated $5.53 million this weekend, which is one of the worst debuts ever for a movie playing at over 3,000 locations. It's essentially in the same range as past animated bombs like Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil, Valiant, Everyone's Hero and Happily N'Ever After.

Strange Magic's audience was 56 percent female and 38 percent under the age of 13. It's unlikely that Disney is able to keep these screens after the second week, which means the movie is almost guaranteed to finish below $15 million." (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4009&p=.htm)

And Lucas wonders why they didn't use his ideas for TFA...

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Phrubruh on January 26, 2015, 09:38 AM

Well, Disney did kind of bury that one like they did with John Carter. This is pretty typical when there is a change of management.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Nathan on January 26, 2015, 11:03 AM

I still do want to see it eventually for the visuals. Maybe switching the sound off is the way to go.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: BillCable on January 26, 2015, 01:10 PM

The commercials looked top-notch on TV.  Way more detail than what you normally see for CG toons.

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: Dave on January 26, 2015, 01:12 PM

Quote from: Nathan on January 24, 2015, 11:11 PM

Wow, that's a hell of a bomb.

How does it compare with "Howard the Duck"?

Title: Re: Strange Magic
Post by: BillCable on January 26, 2015, 01:44 PM

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=howardtheduck.htm

$5,070,136 opening weekend.

In 1986...