Txting Kills Box Office Revenues

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This is fucking great.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

movie industry response: lead outer shell on all cinemas to prevent text message transmission

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh heh. This is very pleasing to me.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this for real?

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

why wouldn't it be?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it's in an english newspaper

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

haha is that an answer to spinktor's question or mine?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

your's!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

OPINIONS ARE KILLING ART

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

WORD OF MOUTH IS DESTROYING FREE TRADE

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"see before they would just call their friends and tell them not to see the movie, but now they're TEXTING, and we just can't compete with that"

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

shhh!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dis film shit no tits
wot u doin 2 nite?
meet in swan at 9?
l8r

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone is at some point going to have to explain to me how Americans get to dismiss English newspapers.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

they don't.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

god save the queen

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha because they can't spell anything that ends in 'ze'

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

m8 i am in swan
where u at geez?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

pirates of carib well gaye
beckham bird lush tho
download innit
swan l8r yeh
respec

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

People DID notice that the story is quoting an LA Times piece, I trust.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect that texting has less to do with it than people previewing bootlegs off of KaZaA et al. and then deciding it's a complete waste of time to go to the theater (which my barracks mate and I did for nearly a year)

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

But it doesn't matter - one way or another I wish all the major studios (film and music) the worst in any case as long as they keep running their businesses after the current fashion

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

is the Rick from Miramax they quote the same Rick from Project Greenlight?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

But Micheel won a major!

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Gee, the major studios will have to actually start making good movies now instead of hyping to death some shit movie and hoping for a big opening week.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It may also have something to do with the big summer movies being unusually crappy this year.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean there've been way too many sequels to movies that I haven't even seen - but maybe I don't watch as many movies as the average bear.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah the movies this summer have blown several barrels of ass

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

but it'll be a cold day in Ecuador before the studios admit that shit

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't movies doing MORE business on opening weekends now compared to a few years back, both on ticket sales and dollars grossed? which would make sense- if the movies suck just as much, yet the marketing campaigns are ever more saturated, everyone goes the first weekend then by tuesday everyone knows the movie's terrible. bigger open, bigger drop.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but also keep in mind both inflation and the increase in ticket prices. Comparatively speaking they're probably doing much worse in real terms.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but that's nothing new - that's why Gone With the Wind owns every adjusted for inflation box office record

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I see your point, James, but I'm talking about Rob's comparison between even a few years ago and now, that's a different situation still. My understanding is that revenues have been steadily degrading.

― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

damn downloaders!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame keanu

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I really, really liked both CA2 and The Hulk.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

cool, thanks ned. i get confused because i read a bunch of things about sales, profits, etc in music and movie bizzes all at the same time. i doubt the movies are really in trouble when a mediocre-to-bad actioner like T3 is still going to pull in 400 MILLION dollars worldwide, before it touches the gold mine of dvd.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

also, the essential way to respond to this kind of movie industry wolf-crying still holds true: please stop making bad films

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah the movies this summer have blown several barrels of ass

Now if they'd only made some movies where this literally happened...< /assmasters>

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my. This fits in so well with the other article I read about how they now claim doanloaded ring tunes are gonna be bigger than actual CD sales:

http://entertainment.nzoom.com/entertainment_detail/0,1846,212954-129-133,00.html

If thats been mentioned elsewhere just ignore me, I cant keep up with this board lately :/

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the basic supposition that summer movies are crap anyway, so go see them already.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I call bullshit on the first article. "word of mouth seems to be speeding up" /= "bastard kids txting from the theater" and there are no quotes from "senior industry figures" claiming so.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i really really enjoyed Matrix Reloaded but i would be fighting a losing battle to deny its bad - but its the best bad film ever

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

See, this is called capitalism - if you don't get the customers, it's your fault, not theirs.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The funny thing is, film companies are getting really, really paranoid about phones! I've been to all these FDA previews recently and there are big big bouncers frisking The Media on the way in, checking for illicit handsets. At CA:FT they made people CHECK them.

The worse the film, the more para the publicist/marketing team.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

How come nobody's ever willing to say, "oh, record sales/box office rev's are down this year because we put out a whole bunch of really shitty product."?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

...my complaint is with the article's slant; instead of being "film marketing faces steeper dropoffs owing to faster communication, especially among the PG-13 demographic" it's "haw haw fatcats blame shitty sales on phones! burn hollywood burn!" ...same diff I guess.

btw stevem those txts were really funny!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

thnx m8, swan or queens head 2nite? l8r

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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