It’s important for any film to take advantage of the advertising potential that entertainment ‘news’ services offer. I’ve noticed a trend recently, which has probably been going on for some time, of movie after movie breaking increasingly specific box office ‘records’.<\/p>\n
Spider-Man 3<\/a> has the biggest 3-day opening ever. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix<\/a> sets a record for biggest Wednesday opening ever. Hairspray<\/a> has biggest opening for any musical on record. Superbad<\/a> breaks a 12 year old record for movies opening after August 15th. And finally, The Simpsons<\/a>: “scored the best opening ever for a non-CG animated movie … the best opening ever for an animated movie rated PG-13 or higher … and the best opening ever for a movie derived from a TV series”<\/p>\n I’m sure by next summer we’ll be reading about the biggest opening on the 14th of a month when it’s cloudy, biggest opening by a movie with a three-to-five word title, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s important for any film to take advantage of the advertising potential that entertainment ‘news’ services offer. I’ve noticed a trend recently, which has probably been going on for some time, of movie after movie breaking increasingly specific box office ‘records’. Spider-Man 3 has the biggest 3-day opening ever. Harry Potter and the Order of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanburns.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}