Think of it, we were just a few years away from "Bill and Ted VS the Tiger King". You know for a fact they would've casted someone as Joe Exotic, (or maybe Bo Yexotic or something to get around parody law). Maybe it was for the best Bill and Ted died when it did lol.
Once sextail wasn’t able to be a joke it died lol
It’ll stop swarms of people entering and leaving but I don’t see distribution being crazy different. Unless nothing is added in its place, which might cause more guests out in the streets.
Way off-topic here but you generally don't need a fake name to parody a public figure (and by a hypothetical 2020 B&T, convicted felon Joe Exotic would have been a "public figure" from a legal perspective). You only need to change details for a fictional character, because fictional characters are intellectual property still owned by their creator. That's why after the infamous 2006 show--which featured a more movie-accurate Jack Sparrow than MK and resulted in the "no camera" policy when Disney tried to shut the whole thing down for that--future shows shifted to making fun of real people, like politicians, and referred often to actors, not characters (e.g. "It's Tom Cruise," not "it's Ethan Hunt").
Or Hack Sparrow who deals with pirating movies.
I mean IT was huge but I would argue that there's not been anything as big as IT since then. I really can't think of any IP that's been nearly as big as those 2 in recent years.
Don’t forget this video.
Scream, Elm Street, IT, and Conjuring would all get top billing over Stranger Things. New Halloween trilogy potentially would as well. Fear Street, Child’s Play, or Gremlins could get top billing depending on how Marketing wants to structure the campaign. If Universal can’t get something like that, then they may just run with Stranger Things. For the third time.
Universal and Dimension had an agreement to do Scream. Rumor is the agreement was always for the TV show/reboot, but A&D basically said “We bought the rights to ‘Scream.’ We want to do the movie.” So, they designed the house to the movie thinking that Universal had carte blanch with the rights and Dimension wouldn’t care since they were still getting paid. Dimension called their bluff, since Universal violated the agreement, and pulled the rights.
I was about to post the exact same thing. The first season has been great and I think would make a amazing house!
Unless I’m remembering it wrong; it was the Weinsteins who a pain in the rear on Uni’s end. I think John Murdy also had a problem with them in 2011. It’s been years and I didn’t keep track with the news; but isn’t Dimension still in hot water because of them? Even without that; given an experience like that I don’t think Uni would want to work with them* again.
