'Just Rewards (2)'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Paramount rejected a recent project that had attached stars, an approved script, and a bankable director by telling the producer, "It's a terrific idea; too bad it has not been made into a movie already or we could have done the remake." Studios today tend to greenlight four types of movies for wide openings: remakes, sequels, television spinoffs, or video-game extensions.
The fuckheads at Paramount apparently need to read the article tommyrot just linked to.
We're ALL DOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!
You're just saying that because we're all doomed.
The fuckheads at Paramount apparently need to read the article tommyrot just linked to.
Yes.
And then they should give me money.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED
llama....
The comments on the Long Tail blog make the point about the misuse of the data in the Blockbusters Are Doomed! post that I would make. The biggest problem is confusing B.O. receipts with the success of a movie. B.S. As Edward Jay Epstein notes, ticket sales provide less than 20% of the studios' revenues. [link] After the advertising, studios are losing money on ticket sales. [link] But that doesn't matter. They are making their money on the ancillary sales-- DVD and TV. So, yes, the proportion of cost to box office is up-- but what that means is not that blockbusters are going anywhere, merely that B.O. is simply not the bellwether it used to be. Keep in mind also that it's in the studio's interest to make more money off the ancillaries than off the B.O.-- they have to share that with the exhibitors and profit participants. But the DVD and TV business is not shared to that extent.
But they're still fuckheads, right?
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