Movie business and billionaire

Good for Josh Whedon. I really hate going to movie
theatres anymore. You have to drive there, wait in
line, then sit amidst a bunch of coughing, farting,
talking, disease carrying people for 2 hours, when
you can wait and see the stupid movie at home.
It's just not worth it.

Quote: Evenbob

Good for Josh Whedon. I really hate going to movie
theatres anymore. You have to drive there, wait in
line, then sit amidst a bunch of coughing, farting,
talking, disease carrying people for 2 hours, when
you can wait and see the stupid movie at home.
It's just not worth it.

I have a cure for all of those illnesses......Go to the movies at one of Las Vegas' plethora of movie theaters anytime during the day and you will more than likely have the whole place to yourself.

I love going to the movies but I especially love going to Vegas cinemas as they are well maintained due to a lot of them being on Casino property and there are so many of them that I'm almost always alone with my thoughts......mmmmmnnnnnnn :)

I don't live in Vegas so seeing a movie is the
last thing I would waste my short time there
on. To tell you the truth, I find big screens
very annoying. I don't like having to move
my head when I'm watching something,
its so not necessary. It's a throwback to 100
years ago when this was the only way to
make money from movies, show them to
huge numbers of people all at once. We've
moved beyond that need, and movie theatres
are becoming outdated even as we speak.

People go to movies as an excuse to gorge
themselves on the concession stand. Get rid
of that and movies would die tomorrow.
Sitting in the dark and consuming 5000 calories
doesn't effect your waistline, don't you know.
I'm not joking, that's why people go to movie
theatres, guilt free gorging.

Quote: Evenbob

I don't live in Vegas so seeing a movie is the
last thing I would waste my short time there
on. To tell you the truth, I find big screens
very annoying. I don't like having to move
my head when I'm watching something,
its so not necessary. It's a throwback to 100
years ago when this was the only way to
make money from movies, show them to
huge numbers of people all at once. We've
moved beyond that need, and movie theatres
are becoming outdated even as we speak.

People go to movies as an excuse to gorge
themselves on the concession stand. Get rid
of that and movies would die tomorrow.
Sitting in the dark and consuming 5000 calories
doesn't effect your waistline, don't you know.
I'm not joking, that's why people go to movie
theatres, guilt free gorging.

I know that is why I go....well that and the handjobs.....it's Vegas after all....hey hey :)

Quote: Tomspur

I know that is why I go...

I don't eat carbs, so its pointless for me to go.
Even my wife realized she was going to movies
with her sisters to gorge on the endless
popcorn bucket deal, as many refills as
as you want. She quit going
a year ago. Its really insidious what theatres
do, fat America is their profit center.

I understand that in days long gone by, almost all casinos offered limitless peanuts.

Whedon's bold action certainly constitutes a price altering mechanism as does the locals casinos actions which amount to offering prime real estate to a theater and access to the crowds via "movie comps" particularly for early showings.

When movies required massive projectors and skilled unionized projectionists crowded social events were the necessary result, now that home theaters are so common and bar theaters are so common the nature of the events can be altered for commercial or social purposes.

Quote: Fleastiff

Popular director Joss Whedon has taken the film world by surprise by releasing his latest offering, 'In Your Eyes', available for download on the same day it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The new release comes from Whedon's own "micro studio", Bellwether Pictures, and is featured on Vimeo as a $5 rental, (free trailer). Whedon mused, 'It's exciting for us because we get to explore yet another new form of distribution — and we get $5.'

Keep in mind that this film had a $1 million budget. It is not being released in theaters, as no theater will show a film that is available elsewhere. As Whedon has tens of millions of fans, he should have no trouble finding a few hundred thousand to cough up $5.

Since many directors/writers/actors like the possibility of winning an award with a small film, they will have to find a way of qualifying for an Oscar. That may involve the construction of a special theater in LA County, where each film is shown for exactly 7 days before it is released on the internet.

All motion pictures eligible for an Oscar must be:
• feature length (defined as over 40 minutes),
• publicly exhibited
• The audio in a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is typically 5.1 or 7.1 channels of discrete audio
• for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County,for a qualifying run of at least seven consecutive days,
• advertised and exploited during their Los Angeles County qualifying run customary to industry practice, and within the Awards year deadlines
• Films that, in any version, receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release will not be eligible for Academy Awards in any category. This includes broadcast and cable television as well as home video and Internet transmission.
• Motion pictures released in such non-theatrical media on or after the first day of their Los Angeles County qualifying run remain eligible.

Winter's Bone (which made Jennifer Lawrence initially famous) was produced for $2 million, and shown in only 4 theaters it's first week (sold less than 16K tickets). Good reviews meant it expanded to 141 theaters, but still sold fewer than 1 million tickets. It received 4 Academy Award nominations including Academy Awards Picture: Anne Rosellini, Alix Madigan
Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Supporting Actor: John Hawkes
Adapted Screenplay: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

Quote: Fleastiff

I understand that in days long gone by, almost all casinos offered limitless peanuts.
.

The only place I eat is a chain called Logans, they
have limitless peanuts in the shell in buckets at
every table. The rest of the food is like every other
place, the peanuts set them apart.

Quote: Evenbob

The only place I eat is a chain called Logans, they
have limitless peanuts in the shell in buckets at
every table. The rest of the food is like every other
place, the peanuts set them apart.

Same with 5 Guys.

Quote: Pacomartin

... the game changing success of Toy Story in 1995, which cost $30m to make and became the highest grossing domestic film that year earning $330 million worldwide. Toy Story pushed computer animation into the same league as Disney animated films..

After a decade and 15 successful films, it looks like PIXAR has produced a dud. The poorest selling film was four years ago which was a sequel to Cars, and sold only 24 million tickets in Northern America. This film has sold less than 9 million tickets in 13 days, which means it will probably sell only 13 million by the end of it's run.

1 Finding Nemo 56,337,500
2 Toy Story 3 52,201,900
3 Toy Story 2 47,836,500
4 Monsters, Inc. 45,088,100
5 Toy Story 43,868,300
6 Inside Out 43,189,700
7 The Incredibles 42,030,000
8 Up 39,273,800
9 Cars 37,264,600
10 A Bug's Life 34,135,500
11 Monsters University 33,200,400
12 WALL-E 31,171,100
13 Ratatouille 30,006,600
14 Brave 29,957,500
15 Cars 2 23,945,000
16 The Good Dinosaur 8,884,700 - In Release: 13 days