I don't have an opinion either way about the practice, but I was curious as to what is the reason for doing this?
Is there are reason for premeiring a blockbuster movie overseas?
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money is the reason
More than anything else, the shift reflects how the international market, once just gravy for Hollywood, has eclipsed the domestic market as the main source of revenue for mainstream theatrical releases. As big as last year's "The Avengers" was at home ($623.4 million), it was even bigger abroad ($888.4 million). Of that foreign total, $185.1 million came in on the film's overseas opening weekend, which took place a week before the movie premiered here. So it's no wonder that Disney would repeat the strategy for "Iron Man 3."
but there's many factors, but they all end in, money....
Box Office: Why Do Hollywood Blockbusters Like 'Iron Man 3' Open in the Rest of the World First?
Roman Brady
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The global box office was always more important than domestic don't know why the media and noobs are trying to act like it is some revelation
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no it wasn't... it was more before 2001... 2001 it equaled out... and since then it's been bigger..
http://www.economist.com/node/18178291
I clicked that link to read what my exact question was "Why don't they do simultaneous domestic/foreign releases?" And they were kind of cryptic about that
Other than money, it's probably better for bad movies to get out their internationally before the American critics/viewers get to see it and trash it. For instance, that horrible movie "Battleship" with Kitsch and Rihanna made $200 million overseas before it was released in the US. Everyone knew it was trash but they had already made production budget back by the time the official American reviews came out where it only made $65 million...
Roman Brady
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I don't know who tabled that or the credibility of where the stats were derived all I know is common sense dictates that there are more ppl outside the United states than inside so naturally foreign box office takings would trump domesticno it wasn't... it was more before 2001... 2001 it equaled out... and since then it's been bigger..
http://www.economist.com/node/18178291
TheGodling
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The best way to market anything is still word of mouth. The best way to want people to involve into something is making them believe they are being left out. Releasing a movie ahead of the "biggest" market thus creates anticipation and a need to catch up for that market because word is already hitting the net/social media/etc. Everybody's already talking about it, yet you still can't see it. So what do you want? To see it as soon as you possibly can to join in the debate. And thus you'll be there opening weekend, preferably opening day even, because they already made you wait a full week (or even more) to get there in the first place. And this effect is particularly strong because US audiences are so used to getting shyt ahead of the rest of the world (because most movies are still released in the US first and foremost) that they feel the need to catch up as soon possible when they don't.
And the most interesting part about this development? Marvel caught onto it by pure coincidence when they released Iron Man 2 internationally a week before the US to give it a headstart before the FIFA World Cup would start cutting into the box office, something they believed had happened with The Incredible Hulk which came out smack in the middle of the '08 UEFA Euro. Why no other studio has picked up on this is beyond me.
And the most interesting part about this development? Marvel caught onto it by pure coincidence when they released Iron Man 2 internationally a week before the US to give it a headstart before the FIFA World Cup would start cutting into the box office, something they believed had happened with The Incredible Hulk which came out smack in the middle of the '08 UEFA Euro. Why no other studio has picked up on this is beyond me.
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wrong breh.... wrong
hollywood and america had the jump on theaters back when we were decades ahead in technology.. movies been out since the turn of the century.. hollywood wasn't shipping those big ass reels to 3rd world countries like we are today. even 2nd and 1st world countries didn't have as many theaters as we did... and they also didn't have the money to translate entire movies, money for millions of their citizens to go see the movies, and they weren't huge blockbusters that did well on a worldwide scale
i'm not sure why you think an article would just completely make up some bullshyt, but hey... believe what you want to believe
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it's in there too... promotion... you can't have RDJ in asia promoting a movie at the exact time he needs to be in america promoting a movie... same with tv spots and billboards and other movies... you come out the same time and maybe you run into some asian blockbuster or an american one
trust that they have teams of people who sit around managing this shyt... and every bit of this comes down to how to maximize the product and make the most money