Weinstein to re-release Grindhouse as two separate movies?

**bartleby** · 04-09-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by SteveFlack

It's a 3 hour ten minute long hard R rated genre movie, with an advertising campaign focusing on a very small group of people. How any smart person would have predicted this to be box office smash is beyond me.

I just wouldn't have guessed that the core audience was so considerably smaller than KILL BILL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO though.

**dEnny!** · 04-09-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by SteveFlack

It's a 3 hour ten minute long hard R rated genre movie, with an advertising campaign focusing on a very small group of people. How any smart person would have predicted this to be box office smash is beyond me.

-Steve!

Plus you are seeing two movies for the price of one.

**dEnny!** · 04-09-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by bartleby

I just wouldn't have guessed that the core audience was so considerably smaller than KILL BILL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO though.

Well technically if you split it into two films that's like each made $12 Million opening weekend.

**bartleby** · 04-09-2007, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by dEnny!

Well technically if you split it into two films that's like each made $12 Million opening weekend.

Yeah, but KILL BILL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO each opened at $22-23 million. I'm just not sure who all the people are that came out to the opening weekend for those movies but didn't for GRINDHOUSE.

**Simps** · 04-09-2007, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by bartleby

Yeah, but KILL BILL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO each opened at $22-23 million. I'm just not sure who all the people are that came out to the opening weekend for those movies but didn't for GRINDHOUSE.

Me. I'll get to it in the next few weeks, but I just wasn't dying to see this. And I'd be more interested in just seeing Death Proof, to be honest.

**bartleby** · 04-09-2007, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Ben Simpson of Earth-2

Me. I'll get to it in the next few weeks, but I just wasn't dying to see this.

I had to read that a couple of times. At first, I thought you were saying that sometime within the next couple of weeks you'd provide an explanation as to why you weren't interested in seeing the movie.

And around these parts, only Bendis gets away with that level of teasing a story.

**Taxman** · 04-09-2007, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by bartleby

Yeah, but KILL BILL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO each opened at $22-23 million. I'm just not sure who all the people are that came out to the opening weekend for those movies but didn't for GRINDHOUSE.

There has got to be a group of people who would like to go out and see a film like this, but not on Easter. I don't know how large of a group that might be, but it exists. In some places, church attendance goes up close to 1000% on Easter.

**Bill Nolan** · 04-09-2007, 12:22 PM

This sounds like an evil plot to get $25m more out of the few people who wanted to see it and already have but will see it again just to see the extra footage...

**DeleriumTremens** · 04-09-2007, 12:23 PM

I wonder how long it will remain a double bill. Since I'd hate to have to pay to see it twice.

**bartleby** · 04-09-2007, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Taxman

There has got to be a group of people who would like to go out and see a film like this, but not on Easter. I don't know how large of a group that might be, but it exists. In some places, church attendance goes up close to 1000% on Easter.

Yeah, but that still leaves Friday and Saturday. And it's not like the box office across the board just drops off drastically this weekend. Other movies were able to find an audience, so the holiday shouldn't be used as an excuse for GRINDHOUSE not being able to do so.