Martien and Erica Meiland will shine on the silver screen at the end of this year, but will that cinema film be a success? “You’re not going to buy a ticket for that screaming!”
The comedy film Chateau Moordland was already shot last year, but will not be released in cinemas until the end of this year. Will it be a blockbuster or will Erica and Martien Meiland back down? “I don’t know. I’m worried about that,” says the obviously critical Privé editor-in-chief Evert Santegoeds in the podcast Strictly Private.
The same screams
Achieving high viewing figures on TV is really different from attracting people to the cinema, says Evert. “Look, the Meilandjes do retain their viewers, but yes, you don’t have to do anything other than zap to the right channel on time.”
He continues: “But as soon as you have to buy a ticket for it and go to the cinema to hear the same screams again, I wonder whether people will do that too. Moreover, they are not actors, the story is wafer-thin. There is a corpse in Chateau Meiland, isn’t it, or something?”
Long time ago
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden does not understand the timing. “It was also recorded so long ago. I find it so strange. It was already recorded last year. It will be released at the end of this year.”
Evert: “Yes, it is as if they are not entirely sure that they will do anything.”
The Meilandjes recently switched to RTL, but SBS still has the rights to all their old episodes. “I now see that the Meilandjes are repeated on SBS 9 every evening.”
Unspoiled
Is Evert going to watch that series of reruns? “There was a promo of that and then I thought: I understand that I still liked it at the time, but then they were still so unspoiled and real. Later the screaming only increased.”
He concludes: “If you shout once: ‘How good!’, and you know it will catch on, then at some point you shout it six times in a broadcast and then it started to bore me.”