Why there will be no Spider-Man 4

Chances are there will never be a Spider-Man 4 or an Iron Man 2. There will be a 4th Spider-Man movie but it won't be named Spiderman 4. Why?

Because every studio now is against using numbers in their squeals. Every! C'mon you are exaggerating. Do we have The Dark Knight to blame for this as well? Maybe..... Indiana Jones has been doing it for decades but The Dark Knight is different as it's a film that didn't even share the same name as it's other predecessors and it made the studio a shit load of cash.

Also movies that aren't even a seqel are being primed for it. Like the recent X-Men Origins of G.I Joe movie.

Take the recent examples below and tell me this is not a trend.

Imagine if a kid who has been in a coma for 15 years wakes up today. Good fucking luck trying to work out which Harry Potter to watch first.

In Australia (and Asia) though we are still using numbers. This dropping of the numbers is a USA thing.

If I had it my way every poster which is a sequel will be required to have someone doing the peace sign to signify the number 2

Luckily we still have the SAW series holding the flag for numbered squeals. Although they do use roman numerals so it technically doesn't count.

And when studios must use numbers they do it ironically like Tr2n or H2 or Taking of Phelem 123. Oh wait that last one doesn't make sense.

I know I've missed a bunch so let me know in the comments.

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Working with US Based Companies

We got a document that outlined how US companies do business. It had some tips for us Aussies. Matt from our US office found these points.

A few truisms from the Austrade doc that I found funny when called out…

US business persons will rarely leave their office to meet you, so meet them at their office or at a venue of their choice.
Makes us sound like hermits – which is sad but very true.

Americanize your website and preferably have a URL ending in ‘.com’ or ‘.us’. The ‘.au’ is
unfamiliar to U.S. business persons and reminds them you are foreign.
This is definitely one to keep in mind in general.

Voicemail is used by companies across the USA as a filtering device. Messages are rarely
returned.
Haha – for cold calling, definitely – but this one’s mostly a generalization.

Do not provide an Australian mobile phone as your point of contact, many U.S. business persons maybe unfamiliar with dialling internationally.
I bet 20% of people could tell you how to dial international.

They forgot to mention "The title on your business card is very important" as we found out last year.