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The Iron Giant is a great movie.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 5/12/21 at 7:46 pm
Had some of my younger grandkids over the other day and we watched it. I haven't seen it in probably 20 years but damn I came away incredibly moved by it. One of the most well made animated movies I have ever seen. They loved it as well.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 7:50 pm to Dubosed
Don’t get the box office for that movie. Cost $50 million, only made $31.3 million. It opened the same weekend as The Sixth Sense, but that shouldn’t have hurt it. I doubt there was much audience overlap between those two movies.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 7:59 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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As a kid at that time, who was getting a little too old for Disney movies, but would have appreciated The Iron Giant, it also surprises me that it barely registered on my radar.
I seem to remember a few TV spots for it, but it didn't get the promotion from Warner Bros. that Tarzan got that year.
I honestly didn't even watch it until I was about 17 and word-of-mouth had gotten around that it was a hidden gem.
As a kid at that time, who was getting a little too old for Disney movies, but would have appreciated The Iron Giant, it also surprises me that it barely registered on my radar.
I seem to remember a few TV spots for it, but it didn't get the promotion from Warner Bros. that Tarzan got that year.
I honestly didn't even watch it until I was about 17 and word-of-mouth had gotten around that it was a hidden gem.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 8:13 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Hard to imagine Iron Giant is literally one of Vin Diesels first films.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 8:19 pm to Dubosed
My favorite animated movie. Just perfect
This post was edited on 5/12/21 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 5/12/21 at 8:51 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Don’t get the box office for that movie.
Essentially it was a case of WB massively screwing up the marketing.
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The Iron Giant was a commercial failure during its theatrical release; consensus among critics was that its failure was, in part, due to poor promotion from Warner Bros. This was largely attributable to the reception of Quest for Camelot; after its release, Warner would not give Bird and his team a release date for their film until April 1999. After wildly successful test screenings, the studio was shocked by the response: the test scores were their highest for a film in 15 years, according to Bird. They had neglected to prepare a successful marketing strategy for the film—such as cereal and fast food tie-ins—with little time left before its scheduled release.
Bird remembered that the studio produced only one teaser poster for the film, which became its eventual poster. Brad Ball, who had been assigned the role of marketing the film, was candid after its release, noting that the studio did not commit to a planned Burger King toy plan. IGN stated that "In a mis-marketing campaign of epic proportions at the hands of Warner Bros., they simply didn't realize what they had on their hands."
The studio needed an $8 million opening to ensure success, but they were unable to properly promote it preceding the release. They nearly delayed the film by several months to better prepare. "They said, 'we should delay it and properly lead up to its release,' and I said 'you guys have had two and a half years to get ready for this,'" recalled Bird.
Press outlets took note of its absence of marketing, with some reporting that the studio had spent more money on marketing for the intended summer blockbuster Wild Wild West instead. Warner Bros. scheduled Sunday sneak preview screenings for the film prior to its release, as well as a preview of the film on the online platform Webcastsneak.
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