Comments on: Fox to pick up Bond Distribution and Marketing?

By: mojomann

mojomann — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:38 +0000

My thoughts exactly. Sony fought so hard to get Bond, first by trying to make their own series based on the character (actualy based on the single movie Thunderball, but that’s another story) and then winning the bid to distribute the franchise when MGM started collapsing. They recently repackaged the whole series on DVD and are knee deep into relasing it on Bluray. The last 2 Bond films under Sony have made more money than it’s previous outings. Though to that point, Bond has never really been a box-office giant. The first couple did well when they were released but over time it has not grown exponentialy. It was not until Pierce came into the roll that it started to make the top 10 $$ list each year and with Daniel it has continued that trend. One would think that Sony would fight pretty hard to retain the franchise at this point.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:49:29 +0000

Funnily enough i got around to watching daredevil the directors cut last night and honestly with the whole extra sub plot of coolio’s trial it added something extra that was missing the first time i say all in all its not that bad at all… Any who.. the reason i dont like fox is simply Mr Murdoch and the Fox News Channel out foxed being a good example why, however in terms of movies though they are the same as most studios, hits and misses. I just hope the lions roars for another 50 years somehow

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:16 +0000

Good point. Also, it wasn’t my argument. I was just supplying information towards his question of why people hate FOX. Although, not the film division.

By: EZELL

EZELL — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:06:28 +0000

Speaking of Star Wars FOX distributes Star Wars

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:03:37 +0000

That’s what I was thinking. Hell, they pushed for it long enough, and even currently share production/distribution costs. If anything, it would go to them. It would make them happy.

By: MJS

MJS — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:53:51 +0000

Didn’t Sony/Columbia have a finger in the distribution of one or both of the Daniel Craig movies? I would have thought they were the natural choice to be doing something like this.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:18:29 +0000

They can still fuck up the marketing as they have for plenty of films and that’s a huge aspect if a film gets a huge opening week-end or a lousy one.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:10:28 +0000

Well, I’m one of the only people who actually liked Daredevil,like John, and remember, Fox distributed the first two X-men movies, and those were pretty damn good. So, if Bond goes to Fox, I think of this as in the same boat as the Marvel being bought by Disney event. Has Fox ruined Bond yet? No. Has Fox saved Bond yet? No. Can you see into the future? No. Can I see into the future? No. Has anything good or bad happened with this deal yet? No. So, as far as I’m concerned, this is not something worth worrying about. The most involvement they’d do is if Daniel Craig leaves is that they will cast the star of Lie to Me in his place, and I don’t think that he would be a bad candidate for the role if Craig were to step down.

By: Slushie Man

Slushie Man — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:46:18 +0000

I hate Fox’s TV station, but I have no problem with their Movie branch. I’ve enjoyed many of their movies and have loved almost as many. As Rodney said, they don’t make any more bad movies then any other company does, its just popular to hate on them so people focus on their bad movies more then any other company’s.

By: melbye

melbye — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:33:33 +0000

The Broccoli-family have complete creative control over the franchise, much like Lucas and Star Wars