Major Studios Tell Comic Con To Screw
Mon, June 13, 2011 
A lot of news outlets are running this story as if it is a giant surprise even though some of us knew this to be the case years ago, the studios don't need to appease fanboys to make money. The NY Times is reporting that major studios are going to skip Comic Con 2011. Among them are money making juggernauts Warner Bros, Disney, and Dreamworks, with Marvel debating on whether or not to bring "Avengers" full force.
Comic Con is becoming less and less important to the success of a film and in some cases fans wearing hobbit feet or shiny black helmets are hurting the product. Remember when fans loved "Scott Pilgrim" and "Tron" at Comic Con? Then the general public decided that they don't care what fanboys think either and didn't show up to the theaters like they needed to. On the flip side, fanboys complaining about the tint of red on a cape or the curvature of a jaw line doesn't help a product, if anybody was actually listening to begin with.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" will have a huge ass showing at Comic Con 2011 but I noticed forum dwellers and websites were kind of up and arms that "Man of Steel" and "Dark Knight Rises" was going to be heroically represented at this years Con. Why? "Man of Steel" isn't coming out until December 2012 at the latest. Comic Con 2012 is where you're going to see Superman make an impact. Also, Nolan never uses Comic Con as push for Batman as far as I can remember.
Rest easy. Unless there is some kind of major surprise and we get a "Dark Knight Rises" teaser with "Green Lantern" or "Harry Potter: Eleventeen" I would imagine that you'll get a "Dark Knight Rises" teaser/trailer with "Contagion" in October at the very lastest. "Man of Steel" hasn't even started filming yet. Patience.
Reader Comments (3)
Nolan, like Michael Bay don't go running to fans to sell their films.
cough Favreau cough.
Spidey 4 has pretty much wrapped, believe me when I say that sony will be the booth to line up for this summer. They may pretty well play the entire damn film at this point.
It really shouldn't come as a surprise. The fans at comic con are the ones lining up to the midnight opening of these movies so they are just wasting money on people who are already going. Fans also fail to grasp the concept of in production and that ends up hurting some movies more than if they didn't show anything at all. The studios are better of spending the money on the people who actually matter, the general audience.
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