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DATE | 2011-12-26 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Maybe it was SOPA
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Dec 26 04:31:37 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id 61F55FE1A7; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:31:37 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Received: by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 50FB5100B42; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:31:37 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05430FE1A7 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:31:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.0.0.24] (www2.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C470028F5F for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:35:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EF83FDD.7030106-at-panix.com> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:35:25 -0500 From: Ruben Safir User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111101 SUSE/3.1.16 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Maybe it was SOPA References: <4EF83F2C.7090406-at-panix.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF83F2C.7090406-at-panix.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020407010008080603060704" Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
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Here is a particularly insightful part of the article
"As bad as the economy is for adults, it's worse for teenagers," said Phil Contrino, editor of BoxOffice.com , by way of an explanation. "Because they have less disposable income and because they are more plugged in to audience reaction on Facebook and Twitter, the teenage audience is becoming picky," he added. "That's a nightmare for studios that are used to pushing lowest-common-denominator films."
So if those kids have no money then SOPA won't save the studios a red cent.
On 12/26/2011 04:32 AM, Ruben Safir wrote: > > A Year of Disappointment at the Movie Box Office > > > By BROOKS BARNES > > > LOS ANGELES --- With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North > America are running about $500 million behind last year --- despite > higher prices --- prompting a round of soul searching by studios > trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed. > > Movies are a cyclical business and analysts say that 2010 benefited > mightily from holdover sales for "Avatar," which was released late in > 2009 and became one of the most popular movies of all time. A decline > of hundreds of millions of dollars is not catastrophic when weighed > against the size of the industry. Over all, North American ticket > revenue for 2011 is projected to be about $10.1 billion, according to > Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. > > That is only a 4.5 percent falloff from 2010. But studio executives > are alarmed by the downturn nonetheless, in part because the real > picture is worse than the raw revenue numbers suggest. > > Revenue, for instance, has been propped up by a glut of 3-D films, > which cost $3 to $5 more per ticket. Studios made 40 pictures in 3-D > in the last 12 months, up from 24 last year, according to > BoxOfficeMojo.com , a movie database. > Theaters have also continued to increase prices for standard tickets; > moviegoers now pay an average of $7.89 each, up 1 percent over last year. > > Attendance for 2011 is expected to drop 5.3 percent, to 1.27 billion, > continuing a slide. Attendance declined 6 percent in 2010. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/business/media/a-year-of-disappointment-for-hollywood.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print > > > >
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Here is a particularly insightful part of the article
“As bad as the economy is for adults, it’s worse for teenagers,” said Phil Contrino, editor of href="http://BoxOffice.com">BoxOffice.com, by way of an explanation. “Because they have less disposable income and because they are more plugged in to audience reaction on Facebook and Twitter, the teenage audience is becoming picky,” he added. “That’s a nightmare for studios that are used to pushing lowest-common-denominator films.”
So if those kids have no money then SOPA won't save the studios a red cent.
On 12/26/2011 04:32 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
A Year of Disappointment at the Movie Box Office
By BROOKS BARNES
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/brooks_barnes/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
LOS ANGELES --- With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year --- despite higher prices --- prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed.
Movies are a cyclical business and analysts say that 2010 benefited mightily from holdover sales for "Avatar," which was released late in 2009 and became one of the most popular movies of all time. A decline of hundreds of millions of dollars is not catastrophic when weighed against the size of the industry. Over all, North American ticket revenue for 2011 is projected to be about $10.1 billion, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data.
That is only a 4.5 percent falloff from 2010. But studio executives are alarmed by the downturn nonetheless, in part because the real picture is worse than the raw revenue numbers suggest.
Revenue, for instance, has been propped up by a glut of 3-D films, which cost $3 to $5 more per ticket. Studios made 40 pictures in 3-D in the last 12 months, up from 24 last year, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com <http://BoxOfficeMojo.com>, a movie database. Theaters have also continued to increase prices for standard tickets; moviegoers now pay an average of $7.89 each, up 1 percent over last year.
Attendance for 2011 is expected to drop 5.3 percent, to 1.27 billion, continuing a slide. Attendance declined 6 percent in 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/business/media/a-year-of-disappointment-for-hollywood.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
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