BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (2020) 1 1

[Bosco685]

 

[piper]

I re-watched the first movie a couple of months ago.  It still cracks me up.

On the other hand, the second movie is  !

[Sauce Dog]

It looks like we are going to get several alternate future versions of Bill & Ted - that alone makes this movie have so much potential

and also +1 for using the classic Orion pictures card at the start - sweet nostalgia right there!

Edited June 9, 2020 by Sauce Dog

[aardvark88]

Middle age Keannu needs a paycheck. Ridiculous but we will watch anything during Covid over the next year.

[Sauce Dog]

14 hours ago, aardvark88 said:

Middle age Keannu needs a paycheck.

...to give away again to another children's hospital. 
 

[Bosco685]

 

[Bosco685]

Bill and Ted 3 Moving to On-Demand With Limited Theater Release

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Bill & Ted Face the Music is coming soon, but it's not going to be released the way folks expected.

 

That's right, another major movie is now hitting on-demand. As theaters push back their reopening dates, and coronavirus cases around the country continue to rise, movie studios are again shuffling to figure out how to deliver their projects to audiences as safely and efficiently as possible. For Orion Pictures' Bill & Ted Face the Music, this means sending the movie digital. Orion announced on Thursday that the third Bill & Ted film would be released on-demand on September 1st, and will release in whatever theaters are open at the time and willing to play it.

 

The announcement to push Bill & Ted on VOD came on Thursday morning, ahead of the film's weekend panel at Comic-Con 2020. Orion also released a new trailer for the film, which confirms the new release date and method. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Bill & Ted Face the Music, once again playing the parts of William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. and Theodore "Ted" Logan, in a movie that fans of the franchise have been asking for for some time.

 

[piper]

4 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Bill and Ted 3 Moving to On-Demand With Limited Theater Release

 

I can't wait to see it!

[Bosco685]

Saw it last night. Now that was a silly-fun film to fit the times with a very positive ending.

[Sauce Dog]

15 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Saw it last night. Now that was a silly-fun film to fit the times with a very positive ending.

Yup - it was the positive feel good movie this year sorely needed. I think we've rented it twice already (maybe three times, I suspense my wife watched it again with out me)

[Bosco685]

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The VOD grosses for Bill & Ted Face the Music have been revealed, and the long-awaited threequel has reportedly made $32 million. Fans were delighted to learn William "Bill" S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Theodore "Ted" Logan (Keanu Reeves) would be back for another excellent adventure 30 years after their last one, but its road to release got a bit bumpy this year. Bill & Ted Face the Music was originally scheduled for release in late August, but the coronavirus pandemic caused MGM to shift it around multiple times. Eventually, it settled on a final plan: Bill & Ted Face the Music was released on PVOD and in select theaters on August 28.

 

At the time, Bill & Ted Face the Music was just the latest film to follow the early on-demand release trend that has dominated this year because of the pandemic. A flurry of films have skipped theatrical runs in favor of heading straight to VOD because of prolonged theater closures, such as Warner Bros.' Scoob and, most recently, Lionsgate's Antebellum. Universal kicked things off when it sent Trolls World Tour to VOD in April. Usually, the public never really knows how well films do on-demand, as studios don't release figures.

 

However, people now have a bit more insight into Bill & Ted Face the Music's performance. Per Deadline, sources say the film has scored $32 million on VOD. For comparison, it's only earned $3.3 million in theaters. On the weekend Bill & Ted Face the Music hit VOD for $19.99, it was only available in 62% of the United States' theaters. The budget has been estimated at $25 million, but as distributor MGM didn't finance the film, it isn't being viewed as a flop. Bill & Ted Face the Music's revenue has been placed at $7.8 million, thus allowing for future profits as well.

 

While Bill & Ted Face the Music isn't quite the overwhelming success it might've been had it gotten a traditional theatrical run, it has performed reasonably well under the circumstances. Many have questioned exactly how well early VOD releases work, and this might be an indication that it has some amount of viability under the right circumstances. Universal previously tried to spin Trolls World Tour's performance as a huge win, but later reports suggested it wasn't as big as the studio made it out to be.