Re: [MOPO] Image theft on eBay
Just wanted to let everyone know about a seller on eBay (quality-man-2004) who accidentally used my image for a Japanese poster (here - the main image showing the complete poster) on his auction. What's funny is that I shot this pic back in Jan '05, and have since snapped far better pics that he could have used. When I called him out on it, he got extremely defensive, telling me to chill out and to never contact him again, as he doesn't need my business. All this even before I contacted eBay, as I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, and allowing him an opportunity to explain what happened before I went that far with it. He doesn't even explain how it came to pass that my pic got used. He said he chose the wrong one by mistake, although he tells me he could send me a million different shots from any angle for proof. My question is how he got my pic mixed in with his poster pics in the first place. A simple apology would have been enough for me, but I guess that was asking too much. I don't recall having dealt with this seller before, and I'm sure that he's probably a straight-up guy, and he does have good feedback. It just upsets me that he thinks I am the villain here, especially when he's trying to sell a $500+ poster with the wrong image. If I was considering buying a $500+ poster, I would sure as hell want to know that I was looking at the poster actually being sold. And no apology, just a brush-off. Guess it was my fault for noticing it in the first place. I've noticed a lot of people superimpose their names or company / website over all the images they post. I personally find that it detracts from the image, and that's the only thing the buyer has to go off of when making his/her decision. Any thoughts? I've actually considered starting to do it myself because of this incident. Steve Zammar[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.dsonesheets.com303/478-3973 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Snakes Did Get Two Major Positive Reviews
Michael, I guess you got a point. Zeev - Original Message - From: Michael Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:08 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Snakes Did Get Two Major Positive Reviews Zeev, It has nothing to do with what the film makers' conscious intentions were. Do you think that the 50's science fiction film makers meant to make movies that reflected social anxiety about the atom bomb? Of course not, but how in the hell do you think those bugs got so big! Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but in this case a snake is a lot more than a cigar. Michael, Cinecityposters Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Original Inserts Wanted!!!
Morning everyone, Please let me know if you have any of the following original U.S. inserts in rolled nice condition. I am only looking for the 14x36's at this time. PAPILLON GODFATHER PART II CHINATOWN ONE FLEW OVER CUCKOO'S NEST MEAN STREETS ANNIE HALL AMERICAN WEREWOLF LONDON ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK FAST TIMES RIDGEMONT HIGH HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER BLADE RUNNER MIDNIGHT COWBOY HALLOWEEN RISKY BUSINESS CONAN THE BARBARIAN DIRTY DOZEN EMPIRE STRIKES BACK CAT PEOPLE BUTCH CASSIDY 1969 THE EXORCIST 2001: SPACE ODYSSEY Thanks! Mike Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Great 80's + 90's 1-Sheets FA
ENDING TONIGHT aresome great original 1-sheets from some 80's and 90's films that will undoubtedly rise in value over time. Check out these great items ALL WITH A LOW STARTING PRICE and NO RESERVE: (At the bottom, I have a couple nice Lobby Cards aswell): ROAD TO PERDITON - TOM HANKS - 2-SIDED - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60334item=270018257989 ALAMO -DENNIS QUAID- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60334item=270018255636 BILLY'S HOLIDAY -Miramax Indy Film - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018255663 FAST AND THE FURIOUS -Vin Diesel- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60334item=270018256558 FAST AND THE FURIOUS III - Rare Advance Style!: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60334item=270018256563 FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 - ROLLED POSTER! - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60333item=270018256600 GROUNDHOG DAY - Hard-to-Find BILL MURRAY poster - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018256646 JACKIE BROWN - Regular Style Tarentino poster - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018256678 LOVE AND BASKETBALL - RAREAdvance Style - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60334item=270018257916 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE POSTER - PART III -NICE HORROR POSTER: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018258014 HARD TO KILL - Steven Seagal -http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018256667 GRAFFITI BRIDGE -hard to find PRINCE poster - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018256630 THE MUMMY - Brendan Fraser - rare advance style - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1419item=270018258025 LOBBY CARDS: GONE WITH THE WIND - R61 - Card # 4 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60305item=270018256175 GONE WITH THE WIND - R61 - Card # 6 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60305item=270018256177 Gorgo - 1961 - Nice Sci-Fi card that shows the underwater vessel - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60305item=270018256181 On Our Merry Way - 1948 - Jimmy Stewart - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60303item=270018256193 Sayonara - 1957 - Marlon Brando - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=60304item=270018256196 There are other great ORIGINAL POSTERS.Please take a look!! EBAY USER NAME: smisam1133 Link to all auctions: http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItemsuserid=smisam1133sort=3page=1rows=200since=2rdir=0 Thanks for looking!!! Sam Smith Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FA: CLOSING! MildredPierce,KingDinosaur,Scaramouche,VillageOfTheDamnedACKarloff
Hi, Everyone. I have lots of auctions closing on TONIGHT, many really HARD TO FIND Vintage 40's 50's titles--almost ALL U.S.---Here's the link plus partial list below: Please take a look if you have the chance. Thanks very much, Rick http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZrixposterz MILDRED PIERCE (Joan Crawford Oscar Winner,1945) Orig US Title Card! SCARAMOUCHE (Stewart Granger,1952) Orig US Title Card! KING DINOSAUR (50's Sci-Fi/Horror Classic,1955) 4 Orig US Lobby Cards! ABBOTT COSTELLO MEET DR JEKYLL MR HYDE Orig 1953 US LC KARLOFF CARD VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Horror, Demonic Kids,1960) 3 Orig US LC's N UNION PACIFIC (DeMille, Stanwyck, McCrea) US Lobby Card Set NEAR MINT! PURPLE HEAR DIARY (Frances Langford,1951) 6 Orig US Lobby Cards NEAR MINT! DUNKIRK (Mills, Attenbourough,1958) Orig US Lobby Card Set! CIMARRON (Anthony Mann,1960) Orig US Lobby Card Set REDUCED!!! This is only aVERY SMALL SAMPLEof items I have closing TONIGHT TOMORROWnights. Thanks very much for looking! Rick http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZrixposterz Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Ebay Guides, UPDATED!
Title: AOL Email Hello everyone.I have spent the past few days updating the 9 Ebay Guides I have posted. http://search.reviews.ebay.com/members/cinemasterpieces_W0QQuqtZg For all of you who have voted YES already, thank you!If you haven't voted yet, please take the time to vote YES at the bottom of EACH ONE if you think they are helpful. The more positive votes they get the more they are seen by new collectors.If you think I should change anything in any of them PLEASE do not hesitate to speak up as I am always open to suggestions.Thanks,Dave David LiebermanCineMasterpieces.com602 309 0500 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] RECOMMENDED
This is such a funny movie.ToochisKirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got out of the screening of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, and I lovedit. Heartily recommended to everyone on the list. Everyone clapped at theend -- even the guys in the AARP.K. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Snakes on a Plane opens with anemic $15 mil.
** I was always skeptical a film like this would open with monster numbers. Forget about the Internet blog hype. Its premise suggested it could be afflicted with the Arachnophobia syndrome at the box office, e.g., a movie of greater interest to GUYS, but NOT to most women, with a gross-out factor that skews different than for even couples who are inclined to chase the horror genre. ** You could canvas 10 of your relatives and friends to get a good idea as to who would be inclined to PAY to see this. Opening at $15 mil. ensures Snakes will pull in numbers that are lower next week. Even if the film was across-the-board-critically acclaimed, there was no getting around the ick factor with general audiences. ** Similarly, look at Oliver Stone's WTC. It's putting up good numbers and despite my mixed feelings about it, people are not inclined to PAY to see a film like this when there's a choice between it and Talladega for a fun time out. WTC -- even if it had been as partisan as Moore's Fahrenheit 911 -- tests an audiences endurance to pain, no matter how good it is, no matter how good you feel when you walk out. -koose. == Snakes on a Plane fails to charm Sunday, Aug 20, 2:19 PM (ET) By Dean Goodman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for the Internet hype. Snakes on a Plane, a camp thriller that generated an unprecedented tsunami of online hysteria during the past year, crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office with estimated ticket sales of just $15.3 million, its distributor said on Sunday. New Line Cinema had hoped the movie would open in the low-$20 million range, a spokeswoman said. While the Time Warner Inc.-owned studio was disappointed, she said the film would be profitable. Hailed by celluloid cognoscenti as being so bad that it's good, Snakes cost about $30 million to make, a relatively modest sum. The sales figure covers actual data from Friday and Saturday, as well as an estimate for Sunday. It also includes $1.4 million from Thursday-evening screenings. Samuel L. Jackson plays an FBI agent trying to regain control of a plane that the Mafia had filled with poisonous snakes in order to kill a protected witness. The only problem was that the title so handily summed up the film's plot that there was little incentive to see it, said Brandon Gray, an analyst at boxofficemojo.com. This tells you that you need to have a compelling story or premise to get an audience for your movie, he said. Senior New Line executives were not available for comment. The project had been in development since 1999, going through several studios, rewrites and directors. It became a cause celebre last year when Jackson publicly assailed New Line for changing the title to the nebulous Pacific Air 121. The studio backed down, empowering Jackson and adoring online fans to complain that the film was not violent enough. Scenes were added ratcheting up the gruesome quotient. The bloggers' victory ensured plenty of media coverage, seemingly turning the little B-movie into a preordained must-see hit. But filmmaking-by-Internet committee has its limits. Industry surveys in recent weeks indicated only modest interest among the moviegoing masses. New Line found itself both playing up the film's unusual backstory and playing down its sales expectations. It did not screen the movie in advance for critics, a common tactic when a studio fears the reviews will be less than complimentary. The box-office champion for the previous two weekends, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, slipped to No. 2 with $14.1 million. The total for Sony Corp.'s Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy rose to $114.7 million. Director Oliver Stone's September 11 drama World Trade Center held steady at No. 3 in its second weekend with $10.8 million and the two-week total for the burgeoning hit rose to $45 million. The film was released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. The top-10 contained two other new releases, as well as an arthouse hit that entered the top tier for the first time after expanding into national release. The college comedy Accepted opened at No. 4 with a solid $10.1 million. The film stars Justin Long as a youngster who starts his own fake college after he fails to be accepted into any real colleges. It was released by Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal Inc. The teen comedy Material Girls, starring siblings Hilary and Haylie Duff, opened at No. 9 with $4.6 million, in line with the modest expectations of its closely held distributor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Doing considerably better was the family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which jumped five places to No. 7 with $5.7 million in its fourth weekend. The crowd-pleaser has earned $12.8 million to date. It was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the arthouse arm of News Corp.1 Twentieth Century Fox unit. Visit
[MOPO] OT: RECOMMENDED...WEB SITE
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/release.htmlMovie Release Schedule from now through 2008-09. Huge informative list of titles green lit and ready to go, or already in the can.As you'll see, no let up ofsequels or remakes. I'll let you discover interesting tid-bits yourselves but acouple of highlights (low-lights?) I'll mention are remakes of 3:10 To Yuma (oncewith T. Cruiseattached) now lists Russell Crowe andChristian Bale as the leads (Cool! I'm there.); The Creature From The Black Lagoonwithdirector Breck Eisner helming(who did okay directing Sahara imho); I Am Legend now with Will Smith (Arnold was once attached); a new Fletch flick; John Singleton's Luke Cage; live-action Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Fraser; John Woo's Spy Hunter (I like John Woo, includingPaycheck. This is my problem and I'll deal with it); Westworld remake (no cast yet); a redo of DAY OF THE DEAD (Huh? Didn't they just "re-do" that one? A Re-Re-Do perhaps?)and a another go (3rd, I think) for The Incredible Shrinking Man starring...wait for it...Eddie Murphy.Good Lord!No matter how you feel about remakes and sequels you'll find the page loaded with fun information. The good news is there are far more originals on the list than there are sequels and remakes.pj Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Image theft on eBay
Steve, Yes, the usual reaction one gets from an eBay scammer of any kind... regardless of the specifics of what they are doing... is "Hey, why are you picking on me? Leave me alone, I'm working this con here and you're cramping my style! Get off my back and never contact me again!" Now, this might work in real life if you were standing on a street corner in New York and the guy was some big burly type, but thinking that this kind of reaction is going to "scare" someone away from calling you out and/or reporting you to eBay is just absurd. Like you, I find the large semi-transparent letters of the owner of the picture across the image to be distracting... unfortunately I guess it's the price we pay for living in the kind of world we do. About the only think I could suggest would be to have two identical pictures with the auction -- with the company name across the top half in one and the bottom half in the other, so that people could look at each unobscured half of the picture in turn to make their condition evaluations. A stupid hassle, but it's better than having someone steal your images. The world is full of idiots. -- JR - Original Message - From: dsonesheets To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:12 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Image theft on eBay Just wanted to let everyone know about a seller on eBay (quality-man-2004) who "accidentally" used my image for a Japanese poster (here - the main image showing the complete poster) on his auction. What's funny is that I shot this pic back in Jan '05, and have since snapped far better pics that he could have used. When I called him out on it, he got extremely defensive, telling me to "chill out" and to "never contact him again", as he doesn't need my business. All this even before I contacted eBay, as I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, and allowing him an opportunity to explain what happened before I went that far with it. He doesn't even explain how it came to pass that my pic got used. He said he chose the wrong one by mistake, although he tells me he could send me "a million different shots from any angle for proof." My question is how he got my pic mixed in with his poster pics in the first place. A simple apology would have been enough for me, but I guess that was asking too much.I don't recall having dealt with this seller before, and I'm sure that he's probably a straight-up guy, and he does have good feedback. It just upsets me that he thinks I am the villain here, especially when he's trying to sell a $500+ poster with the wrong image. If I was considering buying a $500+ poster, I would sure as hell want to know that I was looking at the poster actually being sold. And no apology, just a brush-off. Guess it was my fault for noticing it in the first place.I've noticed a lot of people superimpose their names or company / website over all the images they post. I personally find that it detracts from the image, and that's the only thing the buyer has to go off of when making his/her decision. Any thoughts? I've actually considered starting to do it myself because of this incident.Steve Zammar[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.dsonesheets.com303/478-3973 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Throwing up obstacles to image theft.
** Contact mePRIVATELY if you're interested in the following.I'll try to reply when I have more time tomorrow. ** For about a year, I've been using a _javascript_ code -- PLUS -- if I'm really cranky, a special "garbling tool" to discourage image theft.Usually just the code is fine for me. ** They don't involve overlaying your name or anything which obscures or distracts any portion of your images.(Which, BTW, is still the best way to protect image theft.) ** Savvy users will still find an EZ workaround.I'm just trying to make it NOT AS EASY for people to steal, especially people who ONLY know the "right click" method of storing images, OR those who just roll their mouse over an image to have the Windows image tool bar pop up, enabling them to click the "save" icon. ** Anyone who wants tosteal a STILL image (vs. streaming video) can still do it.Even sellers using Shockwave flash media aren't immune to theft. ** One obvious tip -- never use eBay's picture services.After a sale, those images are up for 90 days or more for people to steal.The JAVA code I use CANNOT be imbedded in eBay's picture services. Hence always use an image hosting service which you can better control. ** As I said, if you want the code, contact me privately and I'll try to get back to everyone after I find it. If I get more than 30 replies (I doubt it), I'll find a way to post it to the entire group). I don't know, some of this code can wreak havoc on some list servers. -koose. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Throwing up obstacles to image theft.
As an addendum... If you host your pictures from you own web site, there will usually be something in your control panel called "hotlink protection". By turning this on, all your images will be blocked on any web sites that you don't specifically allow (so, you can tell it to allow your images to be used on NSFGE, but not some other poster dealer's web site). Cheers,Bob - Original Message - From: David Kusumoto To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: [MOPO] Throwing up obstacles to image theft. ** Contact mePRIVATELY if you're interested in the following.I'll try to reply when I have more time tomorrow. ** For about a year, I've been using a _javascript_ code -- PLUS -- if I'm really cranky, a special "garbling tool" to discourage image theft.Usually just the code is fine for me. ** They don't involve overlaying your name or anything which obscures or distracts any portion of your images.(Which, BTW, is still the best way to protect image theft.) ** Savvy users will still find an EZ workaround.I'm just trying to make it NOT AS EASY for people to steal, especially people who ONLY know the "right click" method of storing images, OR those who just roll their mouse over an image to have the Windows image tool bar pop up, enabling them to click the "save" icon. ** Anyone who wants tosteal a STILL image (vs. streaming video) can still do it.Even sellers using Shockwave flash media aren't immune to theft. ** One obvious tip -- never use eBay's picture services.After a sale, those images are up for 90 days or more for people to steal.The JAVA code I use CANNOT be imbedded in eBay's picture services. Hence always use an image hosting service which you can better control. ** As I said, if you want the code, contact me privately and I'll try to get back to everyone after I find it. If I get more than 30 replies (I doubt it), I'll find a way to post it to the entire group). I don't know, some of this code can wreak havoc on some list servers. -koose. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: RECOMMENDED...WEB SITE
Regarding DAY OF THE DEAD, There was kinda Day of the dead spin offs, but so far no actual remake. Night of the ;living dead was remade, also re-released colourised, also a new 3D version made, plus Romero inserted new footage and re-released it. Dawn of the dead (Nights sequel) was remade recently. But also in Italy, sequels were made, unofficially of course. Now back to DAY, what with the recent remake of DAWN, and as DAY is the sequel to DAWN, it does make sense.. Just strange they didn¹t start with NIGHT... (again). Id rather watch ZOMBI 2, aka ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, aka ZOMBIE... Aka... For some real Zombie fun, from Lucio Fulci. Now don't get me started on all the Italian Zombie series, where there is a LOT, numbered 1-6 (and yes there's more than 6), all/mostly made by different people, and not related except in title (and the fact there is zombies: although Zombie 6 Killing Birds stretches it). Have fun THE DEAD HAVE RISEN; again and yet again, Ari Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Relisted for Quick Sale!
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Re: [MOPO] Snakes on a Plane opens with anemic $15 mil.
Of course, there is a truth here, Snakes on a Plane cost half as much as WTC to make, and was never really designed for the theatrical market.A movie like this is basically glorified STV fare, and one must imagine it will do excellently there. WTC will do well on rentals, but Snakes on a Plane will do amazing on sales at the video level. Even the most recent American Pie sequel, STV, sold over a million copies, and the rental is huge. WTC will have a good rental, and decent television run. Snakes on a Plane will have huge rental and huge long lasting television run, TNT will still be showing it in 10 years with good ratings.One film is focusing on an older one time viewing market, it's a hard market to get into theaters and WTC has done very well at it. The other appeals to a younger, watch it until you puke audience. Was SoaP anemic? A little harsh. Considering it's only on the first lap of it's race. Something tells me it's got a long STV franchinse ahead of it, New Line is very likely to milk this for years to come. Afterall, it opened better than their franchise Final Destination, and it's had two theatrical sequels. RonDavid Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I was always skeptical a film like this would open with monster numbers. Forget about the Internet blog hype. Its premise suggested it could be afflicted with the "Arachnophobia" syndrome at the box office, e.g., a movie of greater interest to GUYS, but NOT to most women, with a gross-out factor that skews different than for even couples who are inclined to chase the horror genre.** You could canvas 10 of your relatives and friends to get a good idea as to who would be inclined to PAY to see this. Opening at $15 mil. ensures "Snakes" will pull in numbers that are lower next week. Even if the film was across-the-board-critically acclaimed, there was no getting around the "ick" factor with general audiences.** Similarly, look at Oliver Stone's "WTC." It's putting up good numbers and despite my mixed feelings about it, people are not inclined to PAY to see a film like this when there's a choice between it and "Talladega" for a fun time out. "WTC" -- even if it had been as partisan as Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" -- tests an audiences endurance to pain, no matter how good it is, no matter how good you feel when you walk out.-koose.=="Snakes on a Plane" fails to charmSunday, Aug 20, 2:19 PM (ET)By Dean GoodmanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for the Internet hype. "Snakes on a Plane," a camp thriller that generated an unprecedented tsunami of online hysteria during the past year, crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office with estimated ticket sales of just $15.3 million, its distributor said on Sunday.New Line Cinema had hoped the movie would open in the low-$20 million range, a spokeswoman said. While the Time Warner Inc.-owned studio was disappointed, she said the film would be profitable. Hailed by celluloid cognoscenti as being so bad that it's good, "Snakes" cost about $30 million to make, a relatively modest sum.The sales figure covers actual data from Friday and Saturday, as well as an estimate for Sunday. It also includes $1.4 million from Thursday-evening screenings.Samuel L. Jackson plays an FBI agent trying to regain control of a plane that the Mafia had filled with poisonous snakes in order to kill a protected witness. The only problem was that the title so handily summed up the film's plot that there was little incentive to see it, said Brandon Gray, an analyst at boxofficemojo.com."This tells you that you need to have a compelling story or premise to get an audience for your movie," he said.Senior New Line executives were not available for comment.The project had been in development since 1999, going through several studios, rewrites and directors. It became a cause celebre last year when Jackson publicly assailed New Line for changing the title to the nebulous "Pacific Air 121."The studio backed down, empowering Jackson and adoring online fans to complain that the film was not violent enough. Scenes were added ratcheting up the gruesome quotient. The bloggers' victory ensured plenty of media coverage, seemingly turning the little B-movie into a preordained must-see hit.But filmmaking-by-Internet committee has its limits. Industry surveys in recent weeks indicated only modest interest among the moviegoing masses. New Line found itself both playing up the film's unusual backstory and playing down its sales expectations. It did not screen the movie in advance for critics, a common tactic when a studio fears the reviews will be less than complimentary.The box-office champion for the previous two weekends, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," slipped to No. 2 with $14.1 million. The total for Sony Corp.'s Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy rose to $114.7 million.Director Oliver Stone's September 11 drama "World Trade Center" held steady at No. 3 in its second weekend with $10.8
[MOPO] FA: unprecedented collection of serial lobby cards
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