HT DX05 - Indiana Jones - in-hand images

[Dollmanron]

Well "IF" Hot Toys follows the movies in order we'll be waiting years for a Dr. Henry Jones.

 

[Solarsailor]

I hope they dont dont go the route of relaunching Indy. Can you imagine??? The horror...the horror...

Couldn't be any more horrific that KOTCS.

I say play on. People have this feeling that everything's going to be ruined all the time if someone else has a go but the classics always remain classics.

I'd love to see Disney have a bash at Indy.

 

[dsokyra]

Look how well the star trek reboot went...I would have never called that!

 

[DarthAlias]

Have a HT DX on sale for $215 shipped if anyone's interested.

 

[Mr Walker]

I would really like to see Hot Toys do a 1:6 DX Indy Temple of Doom. But I want them to do it right.

Me too. And by right I mean a HS that actually looks like Harrison Ford....

 

[jedijim3002]

Wait. The DX head doesn't look like Harrison Ford?!! Then who is that dude in my collection?!! Panic!!!

 

[dsokyra]

Wait. The DX head doesn't look like Harrison Ford?!! Then who is that dude in my collection?!! Panic!!!

Yeah mine looks more like that smuggler guy from Star Wars

 

[jedijim3002]

Yeah mine looks more like that smuggler guy from Star Wars

Oh yeah. Now I see the resemblance. Man they could be twins or at least brothers. Lol

 

[jnmx2000]

Look how well the star trek reboot went...I would have never called that!

Let's be honest, star trek isn't Indiana Jones. Jones is considered one of the greatest films ever made. Star trek benefited with the digital age of film making and JJ abrams intense directing nature. Jones wouldn't benefit from a modernization.

Anyways, is there any news that Hot Toys is going to do any other indy figures from the other movies? maybe an indy of temple of doom?

 

[jedijim3002]

Give me a short round or Donavan.

 

[DarthAlias]

Have this for sale for $210 shipped

 

[Figure5901]

I for one would love to see a Hot Toys Temple of Doom. But it's got to have plenty of accessories; machete, diamond, voodoo doll,,nurhachi urn and the list goes on.

 

[jedijim3002]

I got the medicom relics. Very nice. Urn, shankara stone, headpiece of Ra, grail. All very nice in indy's hands. The one thing that's not great is the fertility idol. Gold paint instead of plated like HT.

 

[dsokyra]

Let's be honest, star trek isn't Indiana Jones. Jones is considered one of the greatest films ever made. Star trek benefited with the digital age of film making and JJ abrams intense directing nature. Jones wouldn't benefit from a modernization.

Anyways, is there any news that Hot Toys is going to do any other indy figures from the other movies? maybe an indy of temple of doom?

All of that is highly debatable. I'm way more of an Indy fan than a Star Trek fan but Star Trek has years on Indy, not to mention an entire devoted fan base with their own name (Trekkies). All I'm saying is that a lot of fans felt that the Star Trek reboot was borderline sacrilege, but it ended up surprising many. Could that happen with Indy? Who's to say? Never say never.

 

[jedijim3002]

The Star Trek reboot was awesome. I'm a Kirk fan from the old days, a next gen fan, and I lived the reboot as well. It doesn't take anything away from the originals or its timeline. I thought it was simply brilliant.

Tron reboot was fantastic as well. I am a huge fan of the original and was wowed by the new one. Thumbs up all the way.

Indy 4 should never have happened. It was terrible from start to finish. A reboot would be the only way to go with this. I really don't think Shia LaBeouf has the presence to take on the Indy franchise. He's a great actor and has some good comedic moments but that's all I see in him. Indy with him would be a joke.

Asking Harrison back for another would be like asking Hamill back to be Luke Sky... Never mind.

 

[swsqueakquels]

The Star Trek reboot was awesome. I'm a Kirk fan from the old days, a next gen fan, and I lived the reboot as well. It doesn't take anything away from the originals or its timeline. I thought it was simply brilliant.

Tron reboot was fantastic as well. I am a huge fan of the original and was wowed by the new one. Thumbs up all the way.

Indy 4 should never have happened. It was terrible from start to finish. A reboot would be the only way to go with this. I really don't think Shia LaBeouf has the presence to take on the Indy franchise. He's a great actor and has some good comedic moments but that's all I see in him. Indy with him would be a joke.

Asking Harrison back for another would be like asking Hamill back to be Luke Sky... Never mind.

The Star Trek reboot was ultimately pretty yawn inducing (and tanked in the rest of the world where ST has never sold) other than "they look like Nimoy and Shatner - except young, hot and cool!" etc and I couldn't make it more than half way through Tron Legacy (another movie that barely broke even) - cool for the first 40 mins then boring as hell - but I'd be intrigued to see an Indy reboot.

 

[dsokyra]

It all depends on the actor they get and the writing...if they nail those two things, they have a movie. Remember, there's a whole generation now who only see Harrison Ford as an old dude. Introduce the concept of Indiana Jones with a new actor, and it would be new to them. Some, like me, will only believe Indiana Jones as played by HF.

 

[jedijim3002]

Forgive me if I sound naive but I'm not exactly sure how box office numbers and gross receipts are calculated but Star Trek reboot while not doing as well in foreign markets still grossed over budget.
Star Trek reboot
385,680,000.00 worldwide
150 million budget

Tron legacy actually did better in the foreign market that US
400,000,000.00 worldwide
170 million budget

Both still made money so I'm confused at your facts. If I am mistaken please enlighten me.

I liked both movies and it seems a lot of other people did as well. I understand your personal opinion and respect that. But to me it seems like they both did pretty well. Dunno.

 

[Zodach]

The box office gross is reduced further by the theaters' cut, distribution costs, and marketing costs. The production cost is usually what you see published, but you can't take that from the gross to get the net profit to the studio. There are more expenses to account for that you don't see published.

 

[swsqueakquels]

The box office gross is reduced further by the theaters' cut, distribution costs, and marketing costs. The production cost is usually what you see published, but you can't take that from the gross to get the net profit to the studio. There are more expenses to account for that you don't see published.

Studios (generally) receive 45% of box office receipts. P & A is on top of the production cost. Disney spent $150m worldwide on marketing TL, so total negative cost was well over $300m (and some say prod cost was underreported,) movie delivered rentals of a little under $200m based on $400m worldwide.

ST would have a total neg cost of around $250m, meaning break even would occur at around $500m worldwide (it made $385m.)

However, the point of most of these projects are about (re)building a brand, so the sequels will have high profile brand recognition and do $1b worldwide and create a flood of ancillary.

Question is at what point the first one underperforming says the brand is weak. ST was a tough call - strong BO in U.S., well-known brand (unlike Tron) but very weak perf overseas given JJ brand, reboot etc. overseas. JJ brand is stronger than ever (overseas too) so Par rolled the dice again, question is, was it the characters and new feel that drew people or just the JJ and reboot curiosity factor?