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  • CMH
    Making you famous
    • Oct 2002
    • 26203
    #31
    Re: Movie Ticket Prices Set To Rise

    Originally posted by ODogg
    LOL, dwindling support so they raise prices. Brilliant! But considering the views of most of the folks who run Hollywood it's pretty typical that they'd support such stupidity and actually believe it would help turn things around instead of make things worse.
    It does seem backwards, but I think sometimes we forget that we're the tech savvy group here that has access to movies that are in theaters without ever attending the theater.

    We're the minority. Though sales are down, I'd bet that most of those sales are to people like us. That doesn't hurt Hollywood. I'm sure I read somewhere (wish I could find it) that sales amongst a particular viewing group are actually up and that group consists of the same people that always watch movies in the theatre.

    Eventually, Hollywood will have to get hip to it as I'm sure the tech savvy is growing. But by that time Hollywood will have figured out how to use the internet to their advantage.

    I can assure you one thing: Hollywood will not let happen to film what has happened to music. They see everything that is happening. You wouldn't have sites like Hulu.com if they weren't trying to appease the television internet crowd. Eventually, they'll find a way to appease the internet movie watching crowd.
    "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

    "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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      • Cebby
        Banned
        • Apr 2005
        • 22327
        #32
        Re: Movie Ticket Prices Set To Rise

        Originally posted by ODogg
        LOL, dwindling support so they raise prices. Brilliant! But considering the views of most of the folks who run Hollywood it's pretty typical that they'd support such stupidity and actually believe it would help turn things around instead of make things worse.
        Again, Hollywood broke the record for box office money last year in the middle of one of the worst economic years in the last 70 years.

        I think they have a better handle on their industry than you do.

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          • Seymour Scagnetti
            Banned
            • Oct 2006
            • 2489
            #33
            Re: Movie Ticket Prices Set To Rise

            Originally posted by Cebby
            Again, Hollywood broke the record for box office money last year in the middle of one of the worst economic years in the last 70 years.

            I think they have a better handle on their industry than you do.
            Actually it's quite common for the industry to get stronger in lean economic times simply because a night out at the movies is still a somewhat cheap night out for the family compared to many other things despite rising ticket prices.

            I don't think Hollywood is overly concerned with what happened to the music industry happening to them. Most people going to the theater do it for a nite out for social purposes and to get out more than the desire to see a particular film and it will always have that attraction. People downloading music don't really lose out on any experience by not buying the CD instead.

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              • jmood88
                Sean Payton: Retribution
                • Jul 2003
                • 34639
                #34
                Re: Movie Ticket Prices Set To Rise

                Originally posted by callmetaternuts
                I get what you and Cebby are saying, and I have done zero research to prove my point, but is revenue up mainly because ticket prices are up? I mean, if I sold 1,000 widgets at 5 bucks a pop in 2000 and in 2009 I sold 500 widgets at 11 bucks a pop, I have more revenue, but sales are down.
                It doesn't make a difference either way, they are making more money than they have in years and that's all that really matters.
                Originally posted by Blzer
                Let me assure you that I am a huge proponent of size, and it greatly matters. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

                If I went any bigger, it would not have properly fit with my equipment, so I had to optimize. I'm okay with it, but I also know what I'm missing with those five inches. :)

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