llama....
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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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.
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.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2006 8:33:48 am PST #421 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
DavidS - Feb 07, 2006 8:36:45 am PST #422 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As has been noted here before, a film's theatrical run is increasingly seen as a marketing campaign for the DVD.
I'm particularly excited about Holiday, which has never been released on DVD before.
How is this possible? One of JZ's all-time favs.
Jessica - Feb 07, 2006 8:42:12 am PST #423 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
goose
Scrappy - Feb 07, 2006 8:43:42 am PST #424 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Mine too! Mmm, Johnny Case.