Aren't you a little late?
There were no details!
Jesse, I will edit my commentary to nothingness if you'd prefer.
Oh, yeah, baby, it's snakalicious in here.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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DavidS - Jan 03, 2006 12:43:02 pm PST #9563 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2006 12:43:09 pm PST #9564 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yup. Cat's out of the bag. Jesse's getting it on with the Lone Ranger.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2006 12:43:55 pm PST #9565 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse's getting it on with the Lone Ranger.
We thought it was all about the hat, but as it turns out, it was really the mask.
Hayden - Jan 03, 2006 12:47:10 pm PST #9566 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm pretty fond of Hoberman, too. I figure that movie critics are exposed to infinitely more movies than I am in any given year, and I can use their championing of indie or limited-release foreign flix to bolster my Netflix queue.
Also, I don't give much of a damn about most Hollywood movies, anyway.
Lee - Jan 03, 2006 12:51:34 pm PST #9567 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yup. Cat's out of the bag. Jesse's getting it on with the Lone Ranger
This must be how rumors get started, because I heard it was Tonto.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2006 12:52:29 pm PST #9568 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This must be how rumors get started, because I heard it was Tonto.
Dude, I heard you were Tonto.
Lee - Jan 03, 2006 12:53:38 pm PST #9569 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nope. That's sarameg.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2006 1:38:39 pm PST #9570 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Interesting observations about the changing film biz in Salon.
While some distributors, including Zeitgeist (says Gerstman), remain committed to theatrical release as the core of their business, and the moviegoing experience isn't going to disappear this year or next, the way movies get delivered to eyeballs is clearly changing, and changing fast. "There's no distribution company in the business that's making money off theatrical release," says IFC's Werner. "It's all publicity for the DVD."
Sasha Berman echoes him, saying, "You use theatrical release as a platform, and just write it off as marketing dollars for the DVD release. You need those [review] quotes and some word of mouth, some awareness of the title." Releasing a movie straight to DVD, without the review quotes or the New York/L.A. word of mouth, she adds, is "throwing your money away." But over the long haul (possibly as long as seven to 10 years), the DVD release gives independent distributors a fighting chance to turn a hit into a cult phenomenon, and a flop into a break-even proposition.
erikaj - Jan 03, 2006 2:06:39 pm PST #9571 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Was it the Simpsons or King of The Hill that had somebody go into a Blockbuster and there was a sign out front that said "If your movie doesn't star Sandra Bullock, it's free."
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2006 2:46:16 pm PST #9572 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
"You use theatrical release as a platform, and just write it off as marketing dollars for the DVD release. You need those [review] quotes and some word of mouth, some awareness of the title."
Isn't it Soderbergh who's going to release his next film in theaters and on DVD the same day? The best idea, IMO, is to have the DVDs available for sale at the theater. You get the viewers while they're still riding high on the wave of excitement from the movie they just watched. It's an impulse buy.
Ick. I sound like a marketer. I feel dirty.