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If anything, I like in the Glanzer interview after WonderCon (I believe that's where I heard it) where he alludes to possibly another event so WonderCon can return up north to SF and another CCI organized con can be held in Anaheim which will tide fans over until Comic Con in July but still give fans another event that they can enjoy on a smaller, more relaxed scale.
I predict we'll see the con bubble pop within a few years. I am surprised it blew up to the levels it did given the recession but many of the larger production companies have not been getting the returns they were hoping for after going HAM on the con advertising.Right now they are at that sweet spot where they have the demand, but what if they do extend the days just to have that be the breaking point where people & companies get con fatigue or just flat out do not want to pay more? That's an expensive experiment that they would be gambling on.
What you don't seem to be getting, is that what makes sdcc so good is the intensity and over saturation.
Right now they are at that sweet spot where they have the demand, but what if they do extend the days just to have that be the breaking point where people & companies get con fatigue or just flat out do not want to pay more? That's an expensive experiment that they would be gambling on.
That's an argument I haven't heard before. IMHO, the show could use a *little* dilution. There's so much to see and I always have to make hard choices...
Mario, you've raised some interesting points. I don't have enough knowledge/experience with this industry to respond with anything appropriately intelligent. I appreciate your thoughts and am interested to see how things work out, and whether or not your predictions are true.You're right that the average college student can't necessarily afford the outlay involved, but presumably as they graduate and get a job they would be more able to do so.
Hollywood will now ride it as far as they can. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't double down on sdcc.
Interesting thing with that point is how quickly Hollywood will blame SDCC as soon as a movie fails. And that will happen with more movies than not.
I don't think so. They might blame the marketing plan, and that might include SDCC, but I doubt anybody would blame SDCC completely. If the movie sucks and word gets out via SDCC, well that's a gamble they took with a movie that sucked anyway.There was a good analysis on the Beat a year or two ago, I'll see if I can find it.Hollywood blaming SDCC for a bunch of failures would actually be OK with me, bec. it might mean they would pull out or pull back.There's enough capital floating around Hollywood thanks to superhero movies that SDCC is a pretty big bargain. Even if they spent a million or two on SDCC -- which seems crazy high to me, they could do SDCC for the next 10 or 20 years and not make much of a dent.Small films will probably always do Guerilla marketing at SDCC. Big Studios have enough coin to do it right until the trend is run into the ground. That's what Hollywood does anyway.