In the Heights (2021)

[Oleageoun Joined: Feb 23rd, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 126 View Predictions]

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lolo's wrote:

Lol if La La Land was a success wasn’t because of Ryan Gosling. His most recent movies as lead (First Man, BR 2049, The Nice Guys…) all flopped at the BO despite good reviews. A star would have helped, but my guess is that the marketing for this wasn’t good enough and failed to generate interest in audiences… which is a shame tbh

They literally spammed everyone with ads of this movie. There was like 3-4 trailer 9-10 and tv clips constantly played for months before this came out. People just weren’t interested.

Okay even if Gosling’s next movies flopped that movie still had Emma Stone who just had another hit with Cruella. I mean Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone vs Anthony Ramos & Melissa Barrera? lol.

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[roger88 Joined: Sep 20th, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 448 View Predictions]

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Oleageoun wrote:

I’m also laughing at how ITH fans said this is gonna be a word of mouth slow hit like The Greatest showman and it dropped to 6th from 2nd in the 2nd weekend lol.

Speaking of that, it’s also flopping overseas:

IN THE HEIGHTS scored just $2M overseas this weekend—the high note was the UK with $1.4M. Spain and Mexico saw disastrous results with $133k and $94k, respectively.

Low end theory.

IN THE HEIGHTS scored just $2M overseas this weekend—the high note was the UK with $1.4M. Spain and Mexico saw disastrous results with $133k and $94k, respectively.

— Exorcist Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) June 20, 2021

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[Rich Thot Joined: Apr 17th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1503 View Predictions]

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ITH was highly promo-ed. That was clearly not its problem. Most successful/semi successful movie musicals have some widely famous/recognizable faces. ITH does not. ITH was a Broadway success but hardly had a rippling pop culture effect. And yeah, not being a “white musical” or having much “queer” appeal probably limited it as well.

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 135 Posts: 5960 View Predictions]

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While this movie sadly has not taken off at the box office, the soundtrack has at least been able to hit #1 on the Billboard Soundtracks Charts in the United States.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/IN-THE-HEIGHTS-Film-Soundtrack-Hits-1-in-the-United-States-20210622

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1748 View Predictions]

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roger88 wrote:

Speaking of that, it’s also flopping overseas: IN THE HEIGHTS scored just $2M overseas this weekend—the high note was the UK with $1.4M. Spain and Mexico saw disastrous results with $133k and $94k, respectively. https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1406641396857991177

Spanish-speaking countries rejection is even more hilarious. But but muh representation! LOL you can’t sell a product with no appeal with “please see it to support diversity”. Nobody does that.

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[Anirudh Joined: Sep 28th, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 487 View Predictions]

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I think the producers of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ should be worried. I don’t see people flocking to the theatres to see that movie.

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[Diamond Tier Joined: Aug 14th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 5519 View Predictions]

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Anirudh wrote:

I think the producers of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ should be worried. I don’t see people flocking to the theatres to see that movie.

DEH will flop commercially & critically. Calling it now.

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[vinny Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 24 Posts: 22285 View Predictions]

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Diamond Tier wrote:

DEH will flop commercially & critically. Calling it now.

I think commercially it will flop but critically do well. I mean that cast is pretty stacked. Hell wouldn’t be shocked if people go to watch for platt cuz they are politician fans, or for Amy or juliane cuz they are still pretty popular

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[fefface Joined: Jan 14th, 2020 Topics: 3 Posts: 1555 View Predictions]

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vinny wrote:

I think commercially it will flop but critically do well. I mean that cast is pretty stacked. Hell wouldn’t be shocked if people go to watch for platt cuz they are politician fans, or for Amy or juliane cuz they are still pretty popular

A stacked cast is not always a guarantee of critical success, and there have been plenty of great performances in films that were widely panned.

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[diego Joined: Dec 10th, 2019 Topics: 12 Posts: 1581 View Predictions]

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loudtoilet wrote:

Spanish-speaking countries rejection is even more hilarious. But but muh representation! LOL you can’t sell a product with no appeal with “please see it to support diversity”. Nobody does that.

Latin Americans couldn’t care less about this film, the story is exclusive to New York Latinos.

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 135 Posts: 5960 View Predictions]

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Anirudh wrote:

I think the producers of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ should be worried. I don’t see people flocking to the theaters to see that movie.

I think Dear Evan Hansen does have potential to do somewhat better due to the source material being more established to general audiences than In the Heights. Plus, DEH has a few more recognizable faces in its cast.

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[TheCineMike Joined: Jun 5th, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 388 View Predictions]

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Anirudh wrote:

I think the producers of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ should be worried. I don’t see people flocking to the theatres to see that movie.

It all comes down to the marketing. I hope they’ll send the right message to entice the audience.

Twitter: @TheCineMike

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[Oleageoun Joined: Feb 23rd, 2021 Topics: 1 Posts: 126 View Predictions]

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Jeffrey Kare wrote:

I think Dear Evan Hansen does have potential to do somewhat better due to the source material being more established to general audiences than In the Heights. Plus, DEH has a few more recognizable faces in its cast.

No its not more recognizable lol. Other than Hamilton general audiences don’t even know the names of broadway plays.

But they do have Amy Adams so there’s some star power to it.

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1748 View Predictions]

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This thing is dead beyond dead. WB is stepping up Dune promo like nobody’s business. Second trailer and 5 spots next week, festival run, bye ITH.

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[Diamond Tier Joined: Aug 14th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 5519 View Predictions]

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Oleageoun wrote:

But they do have Amy Adams so there’s some star power to it.

We’re currently living through Amy’s flop era. DEH will probably NOT be an exception. The trailer was cringe.

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