'Avengers: Endgame' Is Returning To Theaters With New Footage (gizmodo.com) 122
Perhaps 'Avengers: Endgame' might be able to beat Avatar's massive box office record after all. From a report: Marvel has apparently decided to just re-release the damn thing. An extended version of the damn thing, to be exact. Speaking to Comicbook.com at a press junket for 'Spider-Man: Far From Home', Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige confirmed that 'Endgame' will be getting a renewed push at the box office -- and it's gonna be really soon. To boot, to entice audiences back for another three-hour stint in a movie theater seat, the re-release will include an unknown amount of new footage not seen in the original theatrical cut: "We are doing that. I don't know if it's been announced. And I don't know how much... Yeah, we're doing it next weekend.
Screenrant has a few more details from their own interview with Feige: "Not an extended cut, but there will be a version going into theaters with a bit of a marketing push with a few new things at the end of the movie. If you stay and watch the movie, after the credits, there'll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises. Which will be next weekend."
Screenrant has a few more details from their own interview with Feige: "Not an extended cut, but there will be a version going into theaters with a bit of a marketing push with a few new things at the end of the movie. If you stay and watch the movie, after the credits, there'll be a deleted scene, a little tribute, and a few surprises. Which will be next weekend."
So even longer then? (Score:2)
to entice audiences back for another three-hour stint in a movie theater seat
This means it would be even longer, right??
I've not seen it yet, but was starting to break down and consider seeing it in a theater as there is no rental release in site... I guess my natural sloth has paid off. Or has it, with a 3.5 hour + runtime? Maybe my sloth has been met by punishment instead.
Even the original three hours has been what kept me from it to date, never having quite enough time to go a theater for that long...
Re:So even longer then? (Score:5, Insightful)
Read more carefully. You have to sit through the credits then they will show you some deleted scenes. No director's cut, nothing like that. This is intensely lame.
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Hmm...
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Man, they don't stay in very long anymore, I"ve been busy and was hoping in a couple weeks I might have time to go see it in the theater.
Looks like I would have been disappointed if they weren't re-releasing it.
How long do major movies stay in theaters for their initial runs these days?
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Then you haven't been paying attention for the last decade or so. No, movies do not stay in theaters for 12 months like they did 30 years ago, there's simply too many of them.
Even 5+ years ago before I gave up on seeing movies in actual theaters, if I wanted to enjoy a movie which wasn't crowded, I'd wait until it did le
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Some hang around but not many. Endgame is still running in some theatres here.
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This is what getting old feels like. Endgame has been out for two months already, and there are still limited showings in theaters (most theaters near me have 3 a day).
Movies are generally contracted for a week or two, then negotiate after that if it sells well. 3-4 weeks is about the average. Endgame is on week 9.
When you were a kid would you really have waited 11 weeks to go see the hottest blockbuster of the summer, and one of the most successful movies of all time, in probably the most successful movie
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You're a dumbass, and you're wrong.
You're claiming summer blockbusters in the 90s stayed in the theater all summer. That's bullllllllllllshit.
They were there the standard 2-3 weeks + 1-2 more if they did well.
Then they got bumped to the $1 theaters. The major theaters dropped them fast. Today they drop them only slightly faster. And the $1 theaters are gone.
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Well they are just pushing to be highest box office movie ever. While these changes are lame, I bet it is enough to get a movie that has been in the theaters for a few weeks, a new life, at least just enough to keep it up a notch.
Is this just a blatant money grab... You bet! But if you are going to get such a grab, you might as well do it on you most profitable movie yet.
My biggest concern if this is successful, I can see other movies in the future doing this to make a few more bucks.
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The feline has escaped the containment device. Both the #1 film (Avatar) and #3 film (Titanic) already did this trick. Endgame is just following the pack.
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The feline has escaped the containment device. Both the #1 film (Avatar) and #3 film (Titanic) already did this trick. Endgame is just following the pack.
The only thing they've achieved with this is to make it harder to find the "correct" version to download. I'm not going to pay full price to see a post credits scene
I'm just going to wait for the diff patch on DVD (Score:2)
Can't they just sell a Diff? No need to see the whole thing again
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A desperate yet shrewd marketing move... (Score:3)
To rake in those final few millions [boxofficemojo.com] and grab that King of the World crown.
WORLDWIDE GROSSES
1 Avatar Fox $2,788.0
2 Avengers: Endgame BV $2,744.0
CHART NOTES
Grosses are in millions of dollars.
Boy is the Disney gonna be kicking its own ass in a year or two when they'll no longer be able to market their Avatar movies as sequels to the biggest (selling) movie ever.
And they've already invested into FOUR MORE sequels.
Imagine should New Zealanders decide that taking their rights away and then giving some of them back is not really enough [stuff.co.nz] and that they could hold that franchise hostage if they wanted to.
Re:So even longer then? (Score:4, Informative)
I've not seen it yet, but was starting to break down and consider seeing it in a theater as there is no rental release in site
For the US it's July 30 for digital sales, 2 weeks later for physical, unless they push it back.
Re:Why are adults obsessed with such childish movi (Score:5, Insightful)
Why shouldn't adults enjoy them? People should enjoy what they want to without worrying what is appropriate to enjoy. Enjoy life and stop worrying what other people think.
Watching an opera for 3 hours in another language is considered adult, and it is fine if you like that sort of thing but it also OK if you don't. If you are just doing it to demonstrate how "adult" you are that is just stupid.
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Comic books did for movies what McDonald's did for fast food.
6/10, would not see again... (Score:1)
...since the entire movie was a vehicle for showing actors retirement from specific roles.
Please don't support this (Score:5, Insightful)
Please don't go to watch the re-released movie. If millions of people go and it makes lots of money, then every movie studio will copy this tactic and make multiple versions of the big block busters and will expect you to pay to see each one of the "no this is the real ending".
On second thought, I'm not sure that doesn't sound awesome.
Re: Please don't support this (Score:1)
This is a good point.
Plus, I already paid to see this movie the first time; I'm not going to re-pay to re-watch it just for ~10 minutes of extra footage. That's insane.
Re:Please don't support this (Score:4, Insightful)
They aren't changing the ending, just adding a few things after the credits. It's the same movie.
Re:Please don't support this (Score:5, Informative)
I agree. I love the MCU. I really, really enjoyed Endgame. I really want to watch it again.
But I'm not watching it again without owning the DVD and being able to watch it on my couch. I want beer, my favorite snacks, and to be able to pause when life happens.
Asking me to go back and watch something that will DEFINITELY be on the DVD let alone Youtube shortly after is a HUGE ask.
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YouTube as a cam rip yes, DVD, not necessarily.
You forget, this is Disney we're talking about, so they'll release Avengers Endgame as a DVD of the original theatrical release. Then 6 months later, they'll have a "extended theatrical release" edition with the stuff they added.
Of course, 3 months after release will have a massive box set of all the MCU movies and the Avengers Endgame in it
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California. $8 is too much for a beer when the movie is 3 hours long and requires more than 12 oz.
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DVD? Are you from the past?
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Personally, I'd love to see them bump Cameron's overrated Dances with Smurfs (which, BTW, also did a theatrical re-run with Avatar: Special Editio
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You don't have to watch the studio cut if this kind of thing becomes standard...
You also don't have to watch the studio cut if this kind of thing doesn't become standard.
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No worries, though; just wait a few days after the re-release, the extra stuff will show up on YouTube.
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Could we get that treatment for Game of Thrones Season 8? :-)
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What about those who still hasn't seen it like me?
Since people don't buy DVDs anymore... (Score:2)
I'll wait for... (Score:2, Funny)
The Betamax release.
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I only watch stuff on Selectavision.
Please - put Deadpool in a post-credit scene. (Score:2)
Sorry I'm late guys, these mergers take such a long time!
What? I missed all the action?!?! Well, this five-year gap is going to piss off those Agents of Shield guys anyways.
Wow, not even a sequel! (Score:5, Insightful)
It's just a cash grab and they didn't even take the time or effort to make another sequel.
That said I'd love to see certain popular older films such as ET or Goonies released so my kids can see them in a theater.
How about the original Red Dawn (we watch this every July 4th, that would be a fantastic date to show it in theaters)?!
I'd rather watch classic originals rather than rehashed sequels (or non-sequels like this).
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they didn't even take the time or effort to make another sequel.
Quite the opposite. They are putting both time and effort into sequels with Phase 4 in development and an additional 8 (yet to be named) films on the roadmap.
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they didn't even take the time or effort to make another sequel.
Quite the opposite. They are putting both time and effort into sequels with Phase 4 in development and an additional 8 (yet to be named) films on the roadmap.
They'll bomb, though. The MCU is dead to the masses. Tony Stark et. al. are the MCU in their minds.
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Yep. And then we'll have year of Linux on desktop. Haters have been predicting the Denise if the MCU since phase 1. Anyway we'll see in 2 weeks. I predict a box office hit for the first phase 4 film.
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I figure the first step is to go back in time and save Stark...
A potential spoiler.
Go look for your local independent theater (Score:3)
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I shall look around and pay attention for such things.
Back in 2000, I was able to see a single night showing of Run Lola Run (at an indy theater), after having watched it on VHS.
It did coincide with the Princess and the Dragon release, both are by Tom Twyker and starring Franka Potente. We had to go to another smaller theater the same night catch both.
It was a fantastic night at the movies (the best). Best crowd behavior as well; they were both subtitled German language films.
I would love to take my kids
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Check out fathomevents.com for limited re-releases of older films. I personally plan on seeing Alien and Spirited Away this year.
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Thanks for the site reference.
Oh for crying ou loud!!! (Score:1)
WTF... (Score:2)
Can just imagine the bean counters tallying up the box office receipts, see they just a tad shy of Avatars revenue, and saying to each other " We need to do something about this!"
Grab some unused footage , splice it at the end, Viola!
FU James Cameron! (Score:3)
I didn't like Titanic and thought Avatar was a gimmick film anyway.
He also re-released Avatar to push the numbers up so this is from his own playbook.
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It's closer to The Last Ferngully. Except it's pure shit. I hope Avatar 2-5 bomb HARD.
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The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
So close, that should have been the title.
New stuff only at the end? No thanks (Score:2)
If this had been an actual extended version of the movie, with maybe an extra 15 to 20 minutes of additional story and action, I might have actually wanted to go see this new release. But, according to Feige, right there in the summary:
Now I t
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No, I am pretty sure that distinction belongs to Rollergator
They finally did it. (Score:5, Insightful)
They finally found a way to add DLC to movies....
Still haven't seen it. (Score:1)
I'm one of the 6 people in America that still hasn't seen it yet. I don't go to the theaters, so I'm impatiently awaiting it's streaming release. Avoiding spoilers is becoming a full-time job. :(
Anyway, I hope this re-release won't slow the movie's streaming release.
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There is nothing special about it. Just like in the rest of "superhero" action movies it's all about a bunch of idiots flying around wearing costumes, with lots of noise.
The 21-Second Excitation (Score:1)
Naaa (Score:2)
ill wait for the blue-ray.
So... DLC for movies? (Score:2)
So... (Score:1)
Haven't you got enough money? (Score:2)
Just stop already!
Just Wait (Score:2)
Wait until the movie industry figures out what the gaming industry has been doing for years. . . .
Ticket prices:
Avengers Endgame Pre-Order - $15.00 ( Free Captain America T-Shirt )
Avengers Endgame - $10.00
Avengers Endgame Bronze Edition - $15.00
Avengers Endgame Silver Edition - $20.00
Avengers Endgame Gold Edition - $25.00
Avengers Endgame Season Pass - $40.00
Oh, and a month after it releases:
Avengers Endgame Extra Content We Intentionally Edited Out From The Previous Releases DLC
Intermission? (Score:1)
Maybe the deleted scenes and the added material will cancel each other out.
I hope not. If the movie gets long enough, maybe they'll include an intermission -- which it really needs. "Dances With Wolves" and/or some other over-long movies had one, IIRC.
If not, someone may need to revise the guide to when it's safest to leave to take a pee.
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No, it's the one where they can't figure out how to end it, so they lazily fix everything with time travel.