CLOVERFIELD Monster Attacks January Records - Jan 21, 2008 - 01:20am
Umm...I love how everyone quotes, "the Studio" gets 95-98% of the first two weeks, etc...Get it rigth, it's the DISTRIBUTOR that gets that $, (btw it's not as high as 95%), SW III ROTS was 90% and that's the highest I've seen. The DISTRIBUTOR cuts and returns the profit to the Producers (usually a small film company)/"Studio" and any other partners. If you notice some films have "Wingnut Films" or "Icon Pictures" PLUS more film companies at the beginning credits. These are all entities which split the profits, and/or losses. REMEMBER these are just film grosses nor merchandising, tv rights, video distribution, sequel rights, video games, books or other media I haven't thought of. In the future (8-10 years, movies WILL skip theatrical release to release directly to homes (for probably around $39 possibly as much as $99). Remember that you could have as many people as you want in to watch it on your HiDef and still own the movie on your hard drive. Theaters need to get with the program NOW>>>>Should be working on broadcasting sports, liquor licenses, maybe even TV shows...imagine "LOST" parties or "Heroes" parties, say $5-8...I could see that happening as well as keeping those businesses going.

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First INDY Trailer Hits Theaters Feb 14 - Jan 21, 2008 - 12:56am
If you remember the previous SW films, the trailer were based on high tracking and some films were estimated to have received a "Prequel Bump", from being attached. It's all about the money of course!!!

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HD-DVD Backers Switching to Blu-Ray? - Jan 10, 2008 - 08:05am
First of all, the war is and was moot. The saturation point of all 5th generation Home Video plaayers is less than 1%! Like the 3rd generation before it (LaserDisc) it is too expensive to for the average person to buy. Quality or not...and why people don't understand this I don't know. Only 8% of TV's in homes have HD capability. Please remember that 25% of our population are over 60 and living on Soc Security. Many of them don't even have CABLE TV. Many of them just bought DVD players in the last 3 years. Besides, they are having fun with their Wii's! The flaqshpoint will occur in about 18 months when 1TB Disk Drives become affordable. Also when the Tv Studios decrease the prices of Single play downloads with ads to 29 cents. While multiplay downloads w/ads for 99 cents. And Full downloads (withouth DRM) of shows for $1.99. Hmmm...Imagine you live in Los Angeles and want to watch a Yankee game (in HD) you could play $1.99 to download and stream it and save it a la Tivo. I call it MiniPPV. Call me networks. Let's do it!

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