Iron Man Mexico Press Conference

Iron Man was first unveiled to the Latin American media. UPDATE: And premiered in Sydney, Australia.

The movie was also screened for exhibitors last week. Paramount is expecting to get very good terms, using Indiana Jones as further leverage. If the studio is downplaying expectations for Iron Man's opening weekend ($45 to $50 million) based on the movie not being a sequel, the studio still has high long-term expectations for both films well exceeding $200 million.

Here's the press conference in Mexico.

Here's a report from an exhib who saw Iron Man, along with some footage from other summer pics:

I saw IRON MAN yesterday. I have never read the comic and know almost nothing about the character. But I had seen some clips of Downey developing the suit and was amused. Well I can report the movie is terrific. It is a thinking person's superhero film with more character development than special effects and action scenes (though there are plenty of those which are nicely balanced so we get involved in the story rather than bored by non-stop effects.). Downey is terrific...funny, smart and charming...and very buff. Paltrow seems right out of 60's superhero comics or Money Penny from early Bond: proper and subservient assistant who is smart below the surface and more than a little enamored of her boss.

It should be a hit but 200 million is a long way to go when it is undercut in subsequent weeks by more blockbusters.

The opening robbery scene from DARK KNIGHT promised a terrific, critical hit, a ten minute scene from HANCOCK promises a very different superhero movie with Will Smith but footage from THE INCREDIBLE HULK played very flat.

By the way, also saw about 15 minutes of TROPIC THUNDER. Hilarious plus a mock trailer called SATAN'S ALLEY with a Searchlight logo a featuring Downey and Tobey Maguire is very funny and evidently one of 3 fakes trailers, each with non Paramount logos.

UPDATE: Here are some other updates.

Comments

[korshi]

I just got back from the Sydney premier, didn't expect much but was really blown away. A great action movie, a great super hero movie. Here's hoping it does make the 200m mark since it would be a real shame not to have a sequel after such a strong opening.