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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1374953" data-attributes="member: 812">No, your recollection is correct. No really strong reason was given. I suspect two contributing factors:Poor performance by Part 1 indicated a lack of market interest. The current plan is to release Part 1 on DVD and follow it up quickly with Part 2 -- hopefully increasing demand and broadening the potential market for Part 2. If they'd released it in February, only people who had seen Part 1 in the theatre (which was a smaller-than-hoped-for number) would go see Part 2.Poor performance by the third Matrix film, which was widely expected to perform very well, has dampened the enthusiasm for multi-part films sparked by the ever-increasing revenues of the Lord of the Rings movies. I think with Lord of the Rings, and then the second Matrix film, people got a little excited about the potential of multi-part movies and frankly, I think that's one of the reasons Weinstein suggested splitting Kill Bill in the first place -- in the hopes of capitalizing on what looked like a market demand for longer storylines. Now that Lord of the Rings looks like a one-off rather than the leading wave of a new trend, people are going back to more conservative release schedules. I'm disappointed I have to wait to see the rest of Kill Bill, too. I expect the plan will somewhat backfire -- people will probably resist buying the DVD, knowing that a "box set" is likely just around the corner, who'd buy Part 1 by itself?</blockquote>

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