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[~Tech Angel~] However, I do believe that DVDs have made a big impact on movies. There have been many times where we've decided not to go see a movie simply because we were on the fence and knew it would be out on DVD in a couple of months anyway. With the decreased amount of time between theatrical release and the DVD release, this will happen more and more with moviegoers. I remember when it used to take a year or so for movies to come out and that was the deciding factor in going to go see an "on-the-fence" movie.
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Milblog] Quality is fixable?: Studios have made more on DVD sales and licensing products than on theatrical releases for some time. Now, technologies like TiVo and video-on-demand are keeping even more people at home, as are advanced home entertainment centers, with their high-definition television images on large flat screens and multichannel sound systems.
[Furdlog] Pre-empting the MPAA’s Piracy Argument: With box-office attendance sliding, so far, for the third consecutive year, many in the industry are starting to ask whether the slump is just part of a cyclical swing driven mostly by a crop of weak movies or whether it reflects a much bigger change in the way Americans look to be entertained - a change that will pose serious new challenges to Hollywood.
[Making Hobson's Choice] Primer: Perhaps the Smartest Sci-Fi film of all time.: The film tells the story of Abe (David Sullivan) and Aaron (Carruth), two young, hard working, and ambitious engineers, who spend their evenings and weekends trying to become the next Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak (the founders of Apple Computer for the trivia challenged) by creating and patenting new inventions in Aaron’s garage. While fine tuning one of these inventions, a machine which can counteract gravity, lowering an item’s apparent mass, the boys inadvertently discover that their device has some, well, unexpected capabilities too. Being careful not to spoil the story, it is fair to say that one of these capabilities seemingly allows Abe and Aaron to do just about anything they want and earn a ton of money in the process.
[lettrist] Why Hollywood Blockbusters lose money at the boxoffice (but gain it on dvd sales): The media, by treating the box-office grosses released on Sunday afternoons as if they were the results of a weekly horse race, further a misunderstanding about the New Hollywood. Once upon a time, when the studios owned the theaters and carted away locked boxes of cash from them, these box-office numbers meant something. But nowadays, as dazzling as the "boffo," "socko," and "near-record" figures may seem to the media and other number fetishists, they have little real significance other than to measure the effectiveness of the studios' massive expenditures on ads.
[The Urban Grind] Could Moonbaterry Be the Downfall of Hollyweird?: Since 2002, attendance is down about 10 percent for the comparable period, to about 433.7 admissions from about 485 million. The decline has provoked speculation that a rising DVD market and the advent of more elaborate home entertainment centers, along with the shrinking window of time between a theatrical release and the appearance of the DVD, is causing moviegoers to stay home and wait for discs.
[Peterthink.blogs.com] Thinking by Peter Davidson: More on DVD Marketing: Seeing the studios relying heavily on the inclusion of extra footage or deleted scenes as enticements to purchase the movie makes me wonder how long it will be until the theatrical release of a film is more blatantly shaped as a "commercial" promoting the DVD. Will there be a crawl or a pop up at the bottom of the screen saying "Find out more about the making of this scene on the DVD." or will there be cliff-hangers at the end of the movie that will be resolved by added footage in the DVD? Moves like these seem inevitable given the huge revenues generated by DVD sales. Increasingly, movies are generating more revenue in DVD sales then theatrical releases.
[Peterthink.blogspot.com] PeterThink by Peter Davidson: Seeing the studios relying heavily on the inclusion of extra footage or deleted scenes as enticements to purchase the movie makes me wonder how long it will be until the theatrical release of a film is more blatantly shaped as a "commercial" promoting the DVD. Will there be a crawl or a pop up at the bottom of the screen saying "Find out more about the making of this scene on the DVD." or will there be cliff-hangers at the end of the movie that will be resolved by added footage in the DVD? Moves like these seem inevitable given the huge revenues generated by DVD sales. Increasingly, movies are generating more revenue in DVD sales then theatrical releases.
[Indiescene.net] Movie Marketing Blog - Movie Marketing Update: February 2005 Archives: While suggestive, the ads are not really any worse than a swimsuit issue, and they definitely capture the attention of their target market. In fact, compared to the relatively tame, off-target key art for the theatrical release, the DVD ads have been well thought out. This is just one more example of studios rethinking the DVD campaign on its own terms, especially when the theatrical campaign underperformed.
[Indiescene.net] Movie Advertising - Movie Marketing Blog: While suggestive, the ads are not really any worse than a swimsuit issue, and they definitely capture the attention of their target market. In fact, compared to the relatively tame, off-target key art for the theatrical release, the DVD ads have been well thought out. This is just one more example of studios rethinking the DVD campaign on its own terms, especially when the theatrical campaign underperformed.
[Nytimes.com] Cannes Film Festival news and movie reviews - The New York Times ...: I heard a startling rumor from a good source yesterday: apparently the competition jury is leaning toward the Carlos Reygadas film, "Battle in Heaven." (The new and singular film from the director of Japón; the film has radically divided critics, but I like the idea that something this offbeat might win.) This is pretty trippy news, but then the jury is pretty trippy, too. Imagine, if you will, discussions among the following: the director Emir Kusterica (from Serbia-Montenegro); the actress Nandita Das (India); the actress Salma Hayek (Mexico and Hollywood); the writer Toni Morrison (U.S.); the director Agnès Varda (France); the actor Javier Bardem (Spain), the director Fatih Akin (Germany); the director Benoît Jacquot (France); and the director John Woo (Hong Kong and Hollywood, though the catalog says China). I've been on a couple of juries and I know that it doesn't take long for the Stockholm Syndrome to set in, which leads me to wonder: Who has bonded on the jury?
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Posted at May 28, 2005 11:56 AM
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