JJ Abrams next movie

Please let it be better than Blair Witch Project.
Two hours of my life that I will never get back.

 

Nice marketing campaign, but it simply has to be good to make back the nut.

 

If you have a great action flick, no way do you bypass the holidays...

Prediction: This movie will be laughably bad...

 

Above, what BYH needs plenty of when ogling the top picture.

 

If the rumors of something along the lines of a $30 million budget are true, it doesn't matter if it's 90 minutes of dead air. They'll still make their money back on opening night off the trailer alone.

 

Ah, BYH. I needed a good laugh.

Ditto on the welcome backs, Arnold!

 

Wow, really? I totally disagree ... and I normally respect your opinion on movies/movie predictions.

 

The preview looks fantastic, but January is a dumping period for studios to release their garbage films and hope they can squeeze some money out of them before sending them to video... The best you can usually hope for in January is a smaller film that is below the radar to do well like Hostel, which I think was a January release, that made a lot of money.

 

These are the movies that were released this January...

Freedom Writers
Happily N'Ever After
Code Name: The Cleaner
Stomp the Yard
Alpha Dog
The Hitcher
Epic Movie
Smokin Aces
Catch and Release

Also, it should be noted that two of the weakest movie weekends of the year are usually the first weekend in February and the middle weekend in January because of the Super Bowl and the NFL playoffs.

My assumption, and I hope I'm wrong, is that Abrams has some bomb on his hands but hopes that with good trailers (definitely check...) and an under the radar release date, he can open big (Hell, Epic Movie made $18 million it's first weekend) and make back his money...

 

Medellin syndrome.

 

If it leaves as many questions up in the air as Lost does, it is going to suck righteous. Great buzz-building technique, but does anyone remember how great of a job they did hyping the latest Godzilla movie? That one sucked for the cycle.

 

Thinking off the top of my head:

Could Lost's schedule be the reason they're making/releasing the movie in January?