I wonder if attendance is up due to the economy? I remember readin g where ever during the Great Depression movie attendance never flatlined.
I think some Americans have literally created the movie going expeirence in their home without the hassle of kids on cell phones and other distractions. Few films will get me to the theater. Avatar in 3D and was an event. Eventually at 12 midnight on Friday you will be able to download the lastest movie release on your viewing device. Just a matter of time. ________________________________ From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 1:17:10 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Can Hollywood keep hanging on to its aging business model? rave, if I reply to this, my head will explode. And I'm out of brains until tomorrow. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote: >My favorite paragraph of the article: > >If Hertz sounds a cautionary note about the future, it's that every great >business model is someday bound to collapse. And when change comes, it is not >only abrupt, but it usually is best exploited by people outside the business >being changed. "In the music business, everyone went to the right conferences >and listened to all the warnings, but no one actually prepared themselves for >the changes," Hertz says. "If you look at who's done well with new technology, >it's been Steve Jobs and Apple, along with EBay, Amazon and Netflix. All the >wealth was created outside the business that experienced the change." > >http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/08/can-hollywood-keep-hanging-on-to-its-aging-business-model.html > > >Everywhere you look in the entertainment world these days, you see more and >more >people crossing the digital divide, using a staggering array of new devices to >read books, watch TV shows, listen to music and, yes, even read the newspaper. >Amazon recently announced that it now sells more e-books than it does >hardcover >editions. No one seems to watch regular TV shows when they actually air, >either >saving them on TiVo, as I do, or watching them on Hulu, as my son does. > >The one business that seems largely immune to all this dramatic change is the >movie business. In Hollywood, the maxim seems to be: If it ain't broke, don't >fix it. Even though DVD revenues are in decline, movie theater revenue is up >again this year (though actual attendance is down slightly) as people continue >to flock to see films the way the industry wants them to--in theaters with big >screens and popcorn at the concession stand. While nearly everything is >different about the way we now consume much of our music, TV and news, the >moviegoing experience is largely unchanged from the way our grandparents saw >films 75 years ago, > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
