We're ALL DOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Jessica - Feb 07, 2006 7:59:06 am PST #411 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sean K - Feb 07, 2006 8:01:04 am PST #412 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
You're just saying that because we're all doomed.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2006 8:01:29 am PST #413 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The fuckheads at Paramount apparently need to read the article tommyrot just linked to.
Yes.
And then they should give me money.
Jessica - Feb 07, 2006 8:15:28 am PST #414 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2006 8:17:39 am PST #415 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
llama....
bon bon - Feb 07, 2006 8:20:19 am PST #416 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2006 8:28:17 am PST #417 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
But they're still fuckheads, right?
Sean K - Feb 07, 2006 8:29:27 am PST #418 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
duck
Steph L. - Feb 07, 2006 8:30:55 am PST #419 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I was hoping that "Blockbusters Are Doomed" was a reference to the rental places....
Nutty - Feb 07, 2006 8:32:50 am PST #420 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
They are making their money on the ancillary sales-- DVD and TV.
And franchise licensure -- happy meal critters, t-shirts, permissions fees, novelizations.
All of which items would tend to encourage the $200 million idiot actioner, rather than stifle it. Everybody's still in the hunt for the new Star Wars; they're just hunting for the tie-in portion of the profits rather than the initial receipts.
I mean, they need the ticket receipts because I don't buy collectible glasses for movies I haven't seen, but, I could be just one warm butt in the theatre, versus a set of 8 different glasses, to say nothing of the commemorative tea set.