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I think you have a point. Maybe even two. My European look on that...;

Posted by: JMT (a.k.a JMT-NL) on May 02, 12:54 in response to Facto's post Indeed. I know that in Europe, such films are regarded by...

The parental/kids thing is a spot-on observation in my opinion. In Europe the friday and saturday night thing for 16, 17 18 year olds is more towards clubs and 'cafe/bars'.

Dvds is big , and downloading Glee and Vampire Diaries is even bigger.

Offcourse there's also a sizeable blockbusterfilm crowd, but like you said, it's not as big as in the US, where they sell out the big blockbusters weeks ahead. ( Europe sometimes has that as well, off course... The Twilight and Potter films for example )

One other thing; I love the big US-films. Die Hard etc... I'm a fan ! Batman. Iron Man, all those men ! ( Lara Croft, Wanted, all those Angelinas ) My guestimation that Iron Man 2 will do 'slightly less good' than then part 1 is my guess towards the US market. Based on the way I saw the Us-moviegoers perform the last 20 years. ( and based on me having seen both films )

But my track record is very shaky. I can be very off sometimes, as with this weeks NELMS f.i. ;-)

LATIMES/BENFRITZ: IRON MAN 2 made 26% more overseas in local currency OW than the first IRON MAN this weekend. notfabio May 02, 10:50

Here in Guatemala it was at least 40% higher, sold out for the rest of the week in some sites {nm} gogreen May 02, 10:54

I saw it today. It was 70 % of the part 1 -fun and surprise. A short for me JMT May 02, 11:02

I disagree. But then again, I saw Iron Man for the first time about 2 weeks ago, and the sequel on Wednesday. Easy to compare, then. Facto May 02, 11:15

It'll probably do better against the first one, percentage-wise, domestically. Europeans etc. tend to regard films as Iron Man as standard Facto May 02, 11:13

Of course, because all Europeans have the same taste in movies and only watch artsy movies from France or China... Iron m {nm} Buesi May 02, 11:35

Iron Man is pretty big in Europe, too. {nm} Buesi May 02, 11:36

Did I say it wasn't? Read my posts again, or alternatively, learn to read. Or did you forget to open the message and read the IM? {nm} Facto May 02, 11:47

I did read it. I just don't really see a "resistance towards Hollywood blockbusters" in Europeans the way you do. {nm} Buesi May 02, 12:00

what is Facto talking about? RazorHawk May 02, 12:07

Within arthouse crowds. I.e. very little resistance. Facto May 02, 12:14