on the other hand movies are much more expensive to make as well, even
'adjusted for inflation'.

hollywood is starting to discover the 'teenage male demographic' (this
is ALL big FX movies) isn't profitable. the FX have to be bigger and
badder every movie (molto dinero) but really, they are not such a hot
demographic anyway. 'twilight' was really the movie that hammered this
home -- super cheap to make, billion-dollar takings, devoted female
audience, huge profits. i'm surprised it didn't win best film oscar
(in case you didn't know it, hollywood loves to reward economics as
much as art).

i'm off to hollywood on friday. the last three weeks my wife's been
away doing some research on jean harlow and the movie 'saratoga' (and
a bit about rudolf valentino as well) at the academy's library, and
i'm going over to see her and L.A. a bit as well.

scot




On 01/07/2009, at 01:34 , Eric Rizzo wrote:

> Depasquale, Nicholas (Chicago) wrote:
>> I think they need to add new Kirk in the mix as well ;)
>> I really enjoyed the last movie. I was surprised to see it over
>> doubled
>> the money by the closest Trek movie - $369m vs $146m for First
>> Contact
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trek#Feature_films
>
> Sorry to fork the thread, but this is a rant that I've been waiting to
> blurt out for years...
> Am I the only one who gets annoyed by all the reports each year of
> "this
> movie out-sold all earlier movies in ticket sales..."? It seems
> there is
> this crazed need to know how many $$$ every big film takes in, but
> nobody ever talks about the relative increase in ticket prices when
> they
> report ticket sales numbers.
> Last time I went (about 3 months ago?) my wife and I paid $10 or $11
> for
> a prime-time (weekend night) ticket. 5 years ago that same ticket
> was at
> least 25%-30% lower. So to say that a movie today out-earned a
> predecessor is totally disingenuous if you don't talk about the
> difference in average ticket price.
> It really bugs me, because so much emphasis is put on how much a movie
> sells and the public seems to swallow it without bothering to think
> for
> themselves.
> I guess it bothers me so much because it's more evidence of the
> dumbing-down of society and THAT is really one of my hot-buttons.