Who Retains Sequel Rights?

[Russzilla]

[Silver Kamen]

[Gman2887]

[Silver Kamen]

[mbozzo]

If the 2014 movie is a success, there will be a sequel. If not, Toho might want to make a Godzilla movie to remind people what a big star 'he' once was.

[Benjamin Haines]

[jellydonut25]

There is no chance we see a Godzilla movie from Toho for a while:

If the American film is a failure, that's it for Godzilla for years and years and years and years...I'd say we wouldn't get another Godzilla film for 20 years or more.
If the American film is a success, we'll get American films, and Toho will just sit back and collect checks for royalties. Why take the risk of making a film when it can all fall to someone else?

The only hope we have of seeing another Godzilla film, possibly in our lifetimes, from Toho is if the American film is a success. Even then, I wouldn't say for 15 years minimum.

[Russzilla]

Let's just hope LP/WB doesn't make the same mistake with Godzilla the way they did with Pacific Rim in terms of marketing. If I'm them, I'm doing toy commercials, Happy Meal commercials, the whole friggin deal man.

[Russzilla]

[Gman2887]

[Benjamin Haines]

[Russzilla]

[Russzilla]

[Gman2887]

[jellydonut25]

[Russzilla]

[Russzilla]

[Gman2887]

Actually the Spidey 2 trailer has yet to be unveiled and that comes out before X-Men and Maleficent, both late May movies. I think a lot of it comes down to what kind of audience does the studio want for these first trailers? How wide of an audience do they want to reach. With The Hobbit over the horizon, perhaps that's exactly the kind of audience they want for this movie. Who knows.

[Russzilla]

[jellydonut25]

I think movies like X-Men and some of next year's blockbusters that are AFTER Godzilla that have already had a bit of a push and trailers and stuff, have gotten those things because the studios involved have no major film to which they can attach their trailers before these blockbusters are released.

The first horrible Hobbit film did over a billion at the box office. Legendary tacks a trailer onto that type of money-maker and they get more people aware of the film than any amount of viral marketing, online teaser, or promotional campaign would, and with less effort too.