Quote from: Chris!(($$))! on Nov 17, 2009, 06:06:28 AM
I know and know we all feel that Fox has absolutely no care for the franchise other than money but if they ever looked around and saw that a HUGE portion of fans wanted this then they would see that it would make money and do it.
And you're assuming that a 'HUGE' portion of fans is anything more than a minor blip on Fox's radar.
How many registered users are there on this forum? 10,564. If every single person on this forum went to see Predators or the Alien prequel twice, that would mean 21,128 tickets sold. Do you have any idea how many tickets have to be sold to make a movie even break even? Much less be considered a success?
The fans don't really matter all that much. Yes, we're here, we love the movies, and every so often the people in charge will take that into consideration, but you have to accept the fact that Fox already has our money. We go to the theater and see the movie, we buy it on video, even when they hand us shite like AVPR. I own two copies (one on DVD and one on Blu-ray) of AVPR, even though I've only made it all the way through the movie once, and I know from reading these forums that there are quite a few others that bought it, if only for 'completisms' sake amongst the fans.
Fox is going to do what they think will attract non-fans into the theater, because the unwashed masses of the world is where they make their money.