Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Jbohmss]

Truth be told...
 
It's more like Paramount don't want to pay the big bucks...lets face it 
Cruise opens films, all his films are successful.
 
However could it be age?
 
Cruise is now not getting any younger, is Paramount looking at the writing 
on the wall, Cruise tied into a huge contract but perhaps his star quality is 
waning to character acting. Certainly that is what appears to be happening with 
Tom Hanks.
 
Both actors are openers, but not opening BIG anymore.
 
Or am I just being a cynic
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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Judith Weaver]

OK, I'm going out on a limb here, so everybody get your ammunition ready and take good aim at me!  My personal opinion is that Tom Cruise should be strung up on a tree at high noon and every woman who has ever suffered post-partum depression should take a few good shots at him with whatever weapon they feel appropriate.  
I don't know any of Paramount's bigwigs, but I am PROUD of them!  Cruise should have been shot down long ago, whether he makes good movies or not because of his proselytizing and so-called "antics", whatever they may be.  (Frankly, I thought some of his movies were real clunkers, including Vanilla Sky and MI:III.)  And until one of you men are pregnant for nine months and give birth, I don't want to hear a peep out of one of you  Sincerely, Judi Weaver

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From: David Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: David Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSubject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom CruiseDate: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:36:08 -0700>More from today's VARIETY -- Cruise's people say they walked away on >their own because they got low-balled, with Paramount (my guess) >apparently leveraging MI:III's performance as a way to avoid giving >him more money:>>-koose.>>=>>VARIETY MAGAZINE>Tue., Aug. 22, 2006, 8:12pm ET>FRISKY BUSINESS>Spunky Sumner severs Par's ties to Cruise>By CHRIS GARDNER, Variety>>The 14-year Tom Cruise-Paramount relationship has ended on a note of >anger and 
outrage.>>Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, say they have >raised a revolving fund of $100 million from two hedge funds and are >striking out on their own.>>Wagner denounced Sumner Redstone's comments about Cruise as >"outrageous and disrespectful.">>Redstone told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Paramount was >ending its relationship with Cruise because "his recent conduct has >not been acceptable.">>In fact, Wagner said, CAA, Cruise's agent, has terminated >discussions with Par earlier in the week.>>After making 14 films in 14 years, the studio had declined to renew >the original Cruise deal and offered a sharply reduced pact.>>Cruise has been a tabloid-regular over the past year due to his >relationship with actress Katie 
Holmes and his increasingly >outspoken nature about the Church of Scientology.>>Wagner defended Cruise/Wagner's longtime success for the studio, >saying that in the last 10 years, the shingle's product has >accounted for 15% of Paramount's theatrical revenue and for the past >six years it has tallied 32%.>>Their credits include the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Vanilla >Sky" and "War of the Worlds.">>Original Message Follows>>From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>To: "David Kusumoto" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,>Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:58:16 -0400>>Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" >-- but 
this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise >starred in WAR OF THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's >mega-hits. Since then, the god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came >out. Clearly Cruise did nothing "controversial" enough between the >release of those two films to cause audiences to turn against him >personally as an actor. The difference was that one film was worth >watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I expect Cruise >will land on his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of >millions in other films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very >odd world where a billion-dollar corporation makes critical >financial decisions based on the sort of things cited against Cruise >in this article. How shocking! He bounced up and down on Oprah >Winfrey's couch (the 
bastard!)... he criticized drug abuse (in an >incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly what he was talking >about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John Travolta and >many others).>>-- JR>>- Original Message ->>From: David Kusumoto>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14>Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise>>FYI, below.>>-koose.>>=>>Paramount Ends Relationship>With Tom Cruise's Company>>By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNAL>August 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.>>Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount >Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom >Cruise's 
production company, citing the actor's controversial and >sometimes erratic behavior of the past year.>>Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," >"Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, >Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992.>>But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a >series of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the >Church of Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressan

Re: [MOPO] Behind the Blow

[Phil Edwards Cinema Arts]

JR - "Hollywood Accounting" is difficult to comprehend from the 
beginning of a budget of a studio film before a frame is shot or a 
hammer hits a nail in set construction, never mind at the end.


There is no such thing as a "straight forward formula".

At a very basic level, you go to the movies and you get a generic ticket 
stub that does not have the name of the movie on it through computer 
ticketing system. These systems are notoriously pesky and can break down 
very easily, apparently. Especially during peak times when a lot of 
traffic is going through and a lot of people are paying in cash.


How do you know that the money you just handed over for the ticket for 
THAT movie is actually going into the box office for THAT movie and not 
A. Nother movie?


It is a very interesting business. Indeed it is. Any business where a 
film can be the "top grossing" film for the week and still be deemed "a 
disaster" is pretty interesting. It's only when one delves deeper into 
per-screen averages versus prints in the marketplace that any sort of a 
real picture emerges.


Phil


JR wrote:


A question:

Does anyone have any idea how much of the "box-office take" the studio which puts out the 
film gets? We are always tossing around box-office numbers as if the studio gets all of that money, 
but obviously this can't be so. I can't recall seeing any information on how much of the cost of a 
ticket gets back to the studio? I know that classic "Hollywood accounting" make it 
impossible to tell how much a film eventually makes, but surely there must be some relatively 
straight-forward way or formula for getting the money from the box-office back to the studio?

-- JR

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[MOPO] Behind the Blow

[JR]

A question:

Does anyone have any idea how much of the "box-office take" the studio which 
puts out the film gets? We are always tossing around box-office numbers as if 
the studio gets all of that money, but obviously this can't be so. I can't 
recall seeing any information on how much of the cost of a ticket gets back to 
the studio? I know that classic "Hollywood accounting" make it impossible to 
tell how much a film eventually makes, but surely there must be some relatively 
straight-forward way or formula for getting the money from the box-office back 
to the studio?

-- JR

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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[JR]

oops... before one of my many admirers jumps on that momentary brain slip... 
yes, I was temporarily confusing Sumner Redstone with Rupert Murdock... the 
point remains unchanged.
 

- Original Message - 
From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Kusumoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 0:51
Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise


Ah, the truth comes out. It seems that the "unacceptable behavior" Sumner 
Redstone mentioned was actually perfectly acceptable -- at a reduced price -- 
and when Cruise's agent walked out on the negotiations over the attempt to 
low-ball that Redstone got pissed and decided to make the "behavior" crack in 
public out of pique. 

The fact that someone as obviously petty, vindictive and manipulative as Sumner 
Redstone controls a huge amount of the Television we see in this country should 
be more of a concern than anything else.

-- JR

 

- Original Message - 
From: "David Kusumoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 23:36
Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise


> More from today's VARIETY -- Cruise's people say they walked away on their 
> own because they got low-balled, with Paramount (my guess) apparently 
> leveraging MI:III's performance as a way to avoid giving him more money:
> 
> -koose.
> 
> =
> 
> VARIETY MAGAZINE
> Tue., Aug. 22, 2006, 8:12pm ET
> FRISKY BUSINESS
> Spunky Sumner severs Par's ties to Cruise
> By CHRIS GARDNER, Variety
> 
> The 14-year Tom Cruise-Paramount relationship has ended on a note of anger 
> and outrage.
> 
> Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, say they have raised a 
> revolving fund of $100 million from two hedge funds and are striking out on 
> their own.
> 
> Wagner denounced Sumner Redstone's comments about Cruise as "outrageous and 
> disrespectful."
> 
> Redstone told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Paramount was ending 
> its relationship with Cruise because "his recent conduct has not been 
> acceptable."
> 
> In fact, Wagner said, CAA, Cruise's agent, has terminated discussions with 
> Par earlier in the week.
> 
> After making 14 films in 14 years, the studio had declined to renew the 
> original Cruise deal and offered a sharply reduced pact.
> 
> Cruise has been a tabloid-regular over the past year due to his relationship 
> with actress Katie Holmes and his increasingly outspoken nature about the 
> Church of Scientology.
> 
> Wagner defended Cruise/Wagner's longtime success for the studio, saying that 
> in the last 10 years, the shingle's product has accounted for 15% of 
> Paramount's theatrical revenue and for the past six years it has tallied 
> 32%.
> 
> Their credits include the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Vanilla Sky" and 
> "War of the Worlds."
> 
> Original Message Follows
> 
> From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Kusumoto" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ:  Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:58:16 -0400
> 
> Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- but 
> this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred in WAR OF 
> THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since then, the 
> god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise did nothing 
> "controversial" enough between the release of those two films to cause 
> audiences to turn against him personally as an actor. The difference was 
> that one film was worth watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I 
> expect Cruise will land on his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of 
> millions in other films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd 
> world where a billion-dollar corporation makes critical financial decisions 
> based on the sort of things cited against Cruise in this article. How 
> shocking! He bounced up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... 
> he criticized drug abuse (in an incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly 
> what he was talking about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John 
> Travolta and many others).
> 
> -- JR
> 
> - Original Message -
> 
> From: David Kusumoto
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14
> Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
> 
> FYI, below.
> 
> -koose.
> 
> =
> 
> Paramount Ends Relationship
> With Tom Cruise's Company
> 
> By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNAL
> August 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.
> 
> Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures 
> is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's production 
> company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes erratic behavior of 
> the past year.
> 
> Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" 
> and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/W

Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[JR]

Ah, the truth comes out. It seems that the "unacceptable behavior" Sumner 
Redstone mentioned was actually perfectly acceptable -- at a reduced price -- 
and when Cruise's agent walked out on the negotiations over the attempt to 
low-ball that Redstone got pissed and decided to make the "behavior" crack in 
public out of pique. 

The fact that someone as obviously petty, vindictive and manipulative as Sumner 
Redstone controls a huge amount of the Television we see in this country should 
be more of a concern than anything else.

-- JR

 

- Original Message - 
From: "David Kusumoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 23:36
Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise


> More from today's VARIETY -- Cruise's people say they walked away on their 
> own because they got low-balled, with Paramount (my guess) apparently 
> leveraging MI:III's performance as a way to avoid giving him more money:
> 
> -koose.
> 
> =
> 
> VARIETY MAGAZINE
> Tue., Aug. 22, 2006, 8:12pm ET
> FRISKY BUSINESS
> Spunky Sumner severs Par's ties to Cruise
> By CHRIS GARDNER, Variety
> 
> The 14-year Tom Cruise-Paramount relationship has ended on a note of anger 
> and outrage.
> 
> Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, say they have raised a 
> revolving fund of $100 million from two hedge funds and are striking out on 
> their own.
> 
> Wagner denounced Sumner Redstone's comments about Cruise as "outrageous and 
> disrespectful."
> 
> Redstone told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Paramount was ending 
> its relationship with Cruise because "his recent conduct has not been 
> acceptable."
> 
> In fact, Wagner said, CAA, Cruise's agent, has terminated discussions with 
> Par earlier in the week.
> 
> After making 14 films in 14 years, the studio had declined to renew the 
> original Cruise deal and offered a sharply reduced pact.
> 
> Cruise has been a tabloid-regular over the past year due to his relationship 
> with actress Katie Holmes and his increasingly outspoken nature about the 
> Church of Scientology.
> 
> Wagner defended Cruise/Wagner's longtime success for the studio, saying that 
> in the last 10 years, the shingle's product has accounted for 15% of 
> Paramount's theatrical revenue and for the past six years it has tallied 
> 32%.
> 
> Their credits include the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Vanilla Sky" and 
> "War of the Worlds."
> 
> Original Message Follows
> 
> From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Kusumoto" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ:  Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:58:16 -0400
> 
> Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- but 
> this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred in WAR OF 
> THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since then, the 
> god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise did nothing 
> "controversial" enough between the release of those two films to cause 
> audiences to turn against him personally as an actor. The difference was 
> that one film was worth watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I 
> expect Cruise will land on his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of 
> millions in other films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd 
> world where a billion-dollar corporation makes critical financial decisions 
> based on the sort of things cited against Cruise in this article. How 
> shocking! He bounced up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... 
> he criticized drug abuse (in an incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly 
> what he was talking about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John 
> Travolta and many others).
> 
> -- JR
> 
> - Original Message -
> 
> From: David Kusumoto
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14
> Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
> 
> FYI, below.
> 
> -koose.
> 
> =
> 
> Paramount Ends Relationship
> With Tom Cruise's Company
> 
> By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNAL
> August 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.
> 
> Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures 
> is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's production 
> company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes erratic behavior of 
> the past year.
> 
> Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" 
> and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner 
> Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992.
> 
> But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series 
> of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of 
> Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and 
> engaged in sometimes offbeat behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah 
> Winfrey's couch to proclaim hi

Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Joseph Bonelli]

Perhaps Tom and Mel will now form their own production company:  "Religious Nuts Unlimited!"     Joe B in NOLADavid Kusumoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  More from today's VARIETY -- Cruise's people say they walked away on their own because they got low-balled, with Paramount (my guess) apparently leveraging MI:III's performance as a way to avoid giving him more money:-koose.=VARIETY MAGAZINETue., Aug. 22, 2006, 8:12pm ETFRISKY BUSINESSSpunky Sumner severs Par's ties to CruiseBy CHRIS GARDNER, VarietyThe 14-year Tom Cruise-Paramount relationship has ended on a note of anger and outrage.Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, say they have raised a revolving fund of $100 million from two
 hedge funds and are striking out on their own.Wagner denounced Sumner Redstone's comments about Cruise as "outrageous and disrespectful."Redstone told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Paramount was ending its relationship with Cruise because "his recent conduct has not been acceptable."In fact, Wagner said, CAA, Cruise's agent, has terminated discussions with Par earlier in the week.After making 14 films in 14 years, the studio had declined to renew the original Cruise deal and offered a sharply reduced pact.Cruise has been a tabloid-regular over the past year due to his relationship with actress Katie Holmes and his increasingly outspoken nature about the Church of Scientology.Wagner defended Cruise/Wagner's longtime success for the studio, saying that in the last 10 years, the shingle's product has accounted for 15% of Paramount's theatrical revenue and for the past six years
 it has tallied 32%.Their credits include the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Vanilla Sky" and "War of the Worlds."Original Message FollowsFrom: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "David Kusumoto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom CruiseDate: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:58:16 -0400Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- but this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred in WAR OF THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since then, the god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise did nothing "controversial" enough between the release of those two films to cause audiences to turn against him personally as an actor. The difference was that one film was worth watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I expect Cruise will land on
 his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of millions in other films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd world where a billion-dollar corporation makes critical financial decisions based on the sort of things cited against Cruise in this article. How shocking! He bounced up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... he criticized drug abuse (in an incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly what he was talking about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John Travolta and many others).-- JR- Original Message -From: David KusumotoTo: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom CruiseFYI, below.-koose.=Paramount Ends RelationshipWith Tom Cruise's CompanyBy MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNALAugust 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.Viacom
 Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's production company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes erratic behavior of the past year.Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992.But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and engaged in sometimes offbeat behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to proclaim his love for actress Katie Holmes.Paramount now believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his most recent film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone
 said he wants to sever the studio's connection to its biggest star."As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Mr. Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."A spokeswoman for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend 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. 
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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Ron Wisberg]

I'll just say this, my word I've seemed awfully vocal recently, and now this.     MI3 was much better reviewed than 2. It opened better than one (ignoring inflation) and made less than either.      There is a factor here. Time of month released. MI3 came out a whopping, and excuse me folks, this is a huge amount of time, 2 weeks before when MI1 and MI2 came out. Dang, half a month. But, inflation, ticket prices, everything aside there's a stat that holds true, MI1's opening weekend was 25.1% of it's total take, MI2's was 26.9%m and MI3's was 35.8%. Now that's a big difference.      When the film came out Cruise's production studio actually tried to claim that it was simply too early in the summer, it didn't open as well as MI2 only because it was a couple weeks earelier.     SORRY. I don't buy it. Hey, Tom Cruise was all over the news when War of the Worlds came
 out, it's opening weekend? 27.7 of the total. Any wide release film that suffers from more than a third opening weekend syndrome is facing bad word of mouth.     Leave it to a studio though to act on last years trend alone. Don't notice that for several years Cruise's openings were growing and overall box office takes were growing too, there was a bad year. That's enough. Been their policy for years. Isn't stopping with Cruise, just more apparent in ways. Ron 
	
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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[David Kusumoto]

More from today's VARIETY -- Cruise's people say they walked away on their 
own because they got low-balled, with Paramount (my guess) apparently 
leveraging MI:III's performance as a way to avoid giving him more money:


-koose.

=

VARIETY MAGAZINE
Tue., Aug. 22, 2006, 8:12pm ET
FRISKY BUSINESS
Spunky Sumner severs Par's ties to Cruise
By CHRIS GARDNER, Variety

The 14-year Tom Cruise-Paramount relationship has ended on a note of anger 
and outrage.


Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, say they have raised a 
revolving fund of $100 million from two hedge funds and are striking out on 
their own.


Wagner denounced Sumner Redstone's comments about Cruise as "outrageous and 
disrespectful."


Redstone told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that Paramount was ending 
its relationship with Cruise because "his recent conduct has not been 
acceptable."


In fact, Wagner said, CAA, Cruise's agent, has terminated discussions with 
Par earlier in the week.


After making 14 films in 14 years, the studio had declined to renew the 
original Cruise deal and offered a sharply reduced pact.


Cruise has been a tabloid-regular over the past year due to his relationship 
with actress Katie Holmes and his increasingly outspoken nature about the 
Church of Scientology.


Wagner defended Cruise/Wagner's longtime success for the studio, saying that 
in the last 10 years, the shingle's product has accounted for 15% of 
Paramount's theatrical revenue and for the past six years it has tallied 
32%.


Their credits include the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Vanilla Sky" and 
"War of the Worlds."


Original Message Follows

From: "JR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Kusumoto" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Subject: Re: [MOPO] WSJ:  Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:58:16 -0400

Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- but 
this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred in WAR OF 
THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since then, the 
god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise did nothing 
"controversial" enough between the release of those two films to cause 
audiences to turn against him personally as an actor. The difference was 
that one film was worth watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I 
expect Cruise will land on his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of 
millions in other films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd 
world where a billion-dollar corporation makes critical financial decisions 
based on the sort of things cited against Cruise in this article. How 
shocking! He bounced up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... 
he criticized drug abuse (in an incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly 
what he was talking about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John 
Travolta and many others).


-- JR

- Original Message -

From: David Kusumoto
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14
Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

FYI, below.

-koose.

=

Paramount Ends Relationship
With Tom Cruise's Company

By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.

Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures 
is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's production 
company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes erratic behavior of 
the past year.


Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" 
and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner 
Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992.


But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series 
of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of 
Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and 
engaged in sometimes offbeat behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah 
Winfrey's couch to proclaim his love for actress Katie Holmes.


Paramount now believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his 
most recent film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone said he wants 
to sever the studio's connection to its biggest star.


"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his 
deal," Mr. Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "His 
recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."


A spokeswoman for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.

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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Phil Edwards Cinema Arts]

 "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

That's a very odd turn of phrase coming from Redstone in what is simply 
- it would seem - a business decision.
The question arises, exactly what behaviour would he be talking about? I 
doubt very much that TC's Oprah outburst
and misjudged comments on anti-depressant drugs from his Scientology 
background would actually mean that much in the big scheme of things. 
Movie stars are saying and doing dumb-ass things all the time.


And while MI:3 was less than successful, it will still show on the 
profit side at the end of the day for Paramount.


The "recent conduct" referred to may well be something that isn't public 
knowledge at all, or may never be, if indeed it is

anything specific at all.

One can only wonder why the Redstone statement needed any kind of 
qualifier like this. Business deals  get reviewed all the
time at contract time and it would have been sufficient to say that 
Paramount were not renewing their contract with Cruise Wagner 
Productions. The most common reason that previously successful such 
deals have not been renewed at contract time is that one side or the 
other wants more than the other is prepared to concede. Making a 
specific statement about "recent conduct" which is no more odd than what 
many Hollywood stars get up to is very strange indeed.


Phil



JR wrote:

Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- 
but this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred 
in WAR OF THE WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since 
then, the god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise 
did nothing "controversial" enough between the release of those two 
films to cause audiences to turn against him personally as an actor. 
The difference was that one film was worth watching and the other 
wasn't. On the other hand, I expect Cruise will land on his feet and 
go on to make many more hundreds of millions in other films, they just 
won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd world where a billion-dollar 
corporation makes critical financial decisions based on the sort of 
things cited against Cruise in this article. How shocking! He bounced 
up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... he criticized 
drug abuse (in an incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly what he was 
talking about)... and he talked about Scientology (so did John 
Travolta and many others).
 
-- JR
 
- Original Message -

*From:* David Kusumoto 
*To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14
*Subject:* [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

*FYI, below.*

*-koose.*

*=*

*Paramount Ends Relationship
With Tom Cruise's Company*

By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.

Viacom  
Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures is 
terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's 
production company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes 
erratic behavior of the past year.


Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," 
"Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, 
Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992.


But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a 
series of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the 
Church of Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressant 
drugs; and engaged in sometimes offbeat behavior, such as jumping up 
and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to proclaim his love for actress 
Katie Holmes.


Paramount now believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office 
of his most recent film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone 
said he wants to sever the studio's connection to its biggest star.


"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew 
his deal," Mr. Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street 
Journal. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."


A spokeswoman for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.

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[JR]

Hollywood has always been about "what have you done for me lately?" -- but 
this is ridiculous. It was only 1 year ago that Tom Cruise starred in WAR OF THE 
WORLDS which was one of last summer's mega-hits. Since then, the 
god-awful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III came out. Clearly Cruise did nothing 
"controversial" enough between the release of those two films to cause audiences 
to turn against him personally as an actor. The difference was that one film was 
worth watching and the other wasn't. On the other hand, I expect Cruise will 
land on his feet and go on to make many more hundreds of millions in other 
films, they just won't be Paramount's. It's a very odd world where a 
billion-dollar corporation makes critical financial decisions based on the sort 
of things cited against Cruise in this article. How shocking! He bounced up and 
down on Oprah Winfrey's couch (the bastard!)... he criticized drug abuse (in an 
incompetent way, yes, but that's clearly what he was talking about)... and he 
talked about Scientology (so did John Travolta and many others).
 
-- JR
 
- Original Message - 
From: David 
Kusumoto 
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 

Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 19:14
Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom 
Cruise


FYI, 
below.
-koose.
=
Paramount Ends 
RelationshipWith Tom Cruise's Company
By MERISSA MARR, WALL 
STREET JOURNALAugust 22, 2006 6:43 
p.m.
Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said 
his company's Paramount Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship with 
actor Tom Cruise's production company, citing the actor's controversial and 
sometimes erratic behavior of the past year.
Mr. Cruise, the 
star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" and "Days of 
Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the 
Paramount lot since 1992. 
But in the past 
year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series of public incidents 
in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of Scientology; severely 
criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and engaged in sometimes offbeat 
behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to proclaim his 
love for actress Katie Holmes.
Paramount now 
believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his most recent film, 
"Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone said he wants to sever the studio's 
connection to its biggest star.
"As much as we 
like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Mr. Redstone 
said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "His recent conduct has not 
been acceptable to Paramount."
A spokeswoman 
for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.
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[MOPO] Is eBay starving or strangling the Golden Goose?

[Cindy Nemeth-Johannes]

Hi guys,

 

I have a contact with a Business Week
reporter.  I’d like your opinions on this and I will endeavor to get her
to take it on and publish her results.

 

Truly, eBay thinks they’re the only
game in town.  I see that you are reacting – would you be willing to give
me your opinions and talk to an influential business reporter?  I’d like
to give her a package rather than just a tip.

 

Peace,

 

Cindy

 



 








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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting Ebay's massive price rise?

[Movielegends]

There is a Google group of eBay sellers at:     GOOGLE WE NEED AN AUCTION SITE   http://groups.google.com/group/auctionplease?lnk=sg     More or less hoping Google will give feeBay a run for the money.       __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 
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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[Richard Halegua Comic Art]

John

I'm in 100% agreement with virtually everything you say.

I think one more factor ebay burnout

I think very many people find ebay to be difficult to search due to 
incorrect listings, spamming, wrong categories, repros, etc


a novice who only searches for "superman" would get a return of so 
many items through out the site it would be daunting to search 
through and only someone who can take the time to troll ebay all day 
& all night can really use the site


it's alot like going to the Rose Bowl flea market looking for a 
widget and every seller(about 4000 of them) there has a box of them 
and you have to look through to find it


I also think that the very many frauds, incorrect descriptions, 
non-shippers, non-payers etc written up in news , and the rude 
attitude of many sellers is another factor.


How many times have you not gotten a response from a seller who screwed you.??

the entirety of all this and the simple fact that eBay let the site 
"get away from them" because it became so big and they just can't 
police it. If they actually had 20 employees for each category who 
knew the product doing policing, it would be a huge benefit to them. 
It would also be to their benefit to police repros out of the 
incorrect categories which would make searching much easier.


many want Meg Whitman out.. I don't think that is thge solution. The 
solution is having experts en masse to police the site & help them 
cater better to the sellers of all ranges, thereby recreating the 
beneficial experience that the site once was


Rich=--




At 03:57 PM 8/22/2006, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
I will be restructuring my business a little but will not close my 
store in the immediate future. I will eventually move most of my 
stock to my website, which is doing quite well, and sell less 
through eBay. eBay will now be charging 10% commission on store 
items that sell for under $25.00. Add this to higher listing fees 
and various other charges plus the lack of visibility in their 
search engines and the result will be that many sellers will 
certainly close up their stores.


I believe that one of the reasons eBay has made this decision is to 
try to weed out sellers who load up their stores with many bogus 
items or sellers who inflate shipping costs and other charges. I 
think things have almost reached the point where they are not able 
to control the site. They seem to rely on reports from users to 
manage fraud etc and many scammers slip through the net. There are 
some new scams that have surfaced reecently that must be of great 
concern to them. They also want more sellers to use the auction 
format instead of stores. Many sellers have realised that eBay 
auctions are no longer the way to go.


I think their strategy is extremely risky and they will lose many 
sellers as a result.


The reaction in Australia has been huge with a petition against the 
fee hikes now reaching over 4000 replies

http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500024740&tstart=0&mod=1156283641454
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- Original Message -
From: Richard Auras
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?


This was a good question and I am glad to hear others feelings on 
this.  I myself am sitting on the wall with really nowhere to go.  I 
deal primarily in lower end material with none of the great A titles 
many of you have to offer.  I am a hobbyist who does this around a 
normal day job and family.  I don't have the luxury of shows and 
events here in San Antonio to set up in.  I don't have the time to 
build and maintain a website and I don't have a physical storefront 
to sell from.  I did my selling for 9 years through auctions on ebay 
before switching to 10% auctions and 90% ebay store.  I was just 
breaking even with the auction only by the time I decided to migrate 
to the store method.  At 2 cents a post I was making some money 
again and was working to get my store up to 10,000 to 12,000 
items.  Sales were enough to pay for this and give me money to 
continue buying for myself and resale.  This increase just has me 
worried.  I don't want to increase my prices to try to balance 
things because that will scare buyers away.  This is

[MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting Ebay's massive price rise?

[Tony Calvert]

Title: Are MoPo sellers accepting Ebay's massive price rise?






I am completely looking over all possibilities.  In a way it gets me off my ass and going in other directions.  I think it is a drastic move that will backfire.  I am evaluating doing the opposite of Ebays intentions.  Due to poor auction results with the high listing prices I may cut out some auction activity and pay the higher prices for store listings, but cut out my lower end bulk listings.  In the meantime I am rebuilding my website, and looking at other alternatives.  Ebay has used and abused sellers for many years now, and this time I truly believe it is the beginning of the end for Ebay as we know it now.  They will be a force for a long time, but their Wal Mart approach to marketing has blown up in their face, and now they want to go back to what got them there, which I think they will never happen.   Just my thoughts. 

If you want to see the whole picture outside of poster collectors and dealers go to Ebay, click community, then go to the store forums, it is massive.



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Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[Bob Brooks]

Yup, you gotta love Hollywood!...
 
Not that I have much respect for Tom Cruise 
(although anyone who can get Katie Holmes into bed gets a big check-mark in my 
book).  But, if they think it was Tom Cruise who hurt Mission Impossible 
III - they are way off-base (yet again).
 
What hurt MI3 wasn't Cruise - it was the fact that 
the first installment was brutally awful and the 2nd one was even worse!  
Two of the very worst movies ever made (and in Hollywood, that's saying a 
lot).  Perhaps that has more to do with MI3's disappointing box office - 
than some fool jumping up and down on a couch.  But, then again, that's 
just me...

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  David Kusumoto 
  To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
  
  Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:14 
  PM
  Subject: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates 
  ties with Tom Cruise
  
  
  FYI, 
  below.
  -koose.
  =
  Paramount Ends 
  RelationshipWith Tom Cruise's Company
  By MERISSA MARR, WALL 
  STREET JOURNALAugust 22, 2006 6:43 
  p.m.
  Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone 
  said his company's Paramount Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship 
  with actor Tom Cruise's production company, citing the actor's controversial 
  and sometimes erratic behavior of the past year.
  Mr. Cruise, 
  the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" and "Days of 
  Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the 
  Paramount lot since 1992. 
  But in the 
  past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series of public 
  incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of Scientology; 
  severely criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and engaged in sometimes 
  offbeat behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to 
  proclaim his love for actress Katie Holmes.
  Paramount now 
  believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his most recent 
  film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone said he wants to sever the 
  studio's connection to its biggest star.
  "As much as 
  we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Mr. 
  Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "His recent 
  conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
  A spokeswoman 
  for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.
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[MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise

[David Kusumoto]

FYI, below.
-koose.
=
Paramount Ends RelationshipWith Tom Cruise's Company
By MERISSA MARR, WALL STREET JOURNALAugust 22, 2006 6:43 p.m.
Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's Paramount Pictures is terminating its 14-year relationship with actor Tom Cruise's production company, citing the actor's controversial and sometimes erratic behavior of the past year.
Mr. Cruise, the star of Paramount hits like "Mission: Impossible," "Top Gun" and "Days of Thunder," has based his moviemaking company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, on the Paramount lot since 1992. 
But in the past year, Mr. Cruise's star has fallen in the wake of a series of public incidents in which he stumped for his faith in the Church of Scientology; severely criticized the use of antidepressant drugs; and engaged in sometimes offbeat behavior, such as jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch to proclaim his love for actress Katie Holmes.
Paramount now believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his most recent film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone said he wants to sever the studio's connection to its biggest star.
"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Mr. Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
A spokeswoman for Cruise/Wagner Productions declined to comment.
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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia]

I will be restructuring my business a little but 
will not close my store in the immediate future. I will eventually move most of 
my stock to my website, which is doing quite well, and sell less through eBay. 
eBay will now be charging 10% commission on store items that sell for under 
$25.00. Add this to higher listing fees and various other charges plus the lack 
of visibility in their search engines and the result will be that many sellers 
will certainly close up their stores.
 
I believe that one of the reasons eBay has made 
this decision is to try to weed out sellers who load up their stores with 
many bogus items or sellers who inflate shipping costs and other charges. I 
think things have almost reached the point where they are not able to 
control the site. They seem to rely on reports from users to manage fraud etc 
and many scammers slip through the net. There are some new scams that have 
surfaced reecently that must be of great concern to them. They also want 
more sellers to use the auction format instead of stores. Many sellers have 
realised that eBay auctions are no longer the way to go.
 
I think their strategy is extremely risky and they 
will lose many sellers as a result.
 
The reaction in Australia has been huge with a 
petition against the fee hikes now reaching over 4000 replies
http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500024740&tstart=0&mod=1156283641454
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Please visit my NEW Website for a huge range of 
Movie Posters, Lobby cards, Autographs and movie memorabilia: 
 
Website: www.moviemem.com
 
Newsletter: http://www.moviemem.com/pages/newsletter.php
 
Exhibitions: http://www.moviemem.com/pages/page.php?page=15
 
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIAPO Box 
92Palm BeachQld 4221Australia
 
 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Richard 
  Auras 
  To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
  
  Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:23 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers 
  accepting eBay's massive price rise?
  
  
  This 
  was a good question and I am glad to hear others feelings on this.  I 
  myself am sitting on the wall with really nowhere to go.  I deal 
  primarily in lower end material with none of the great A titles many of you 
  have to offer.  I am a hobbyist who does this around a normal day job and 
  family.  I don't have the luxury of shows and events here in San Antonio 
  to set up in.  I don't have the time to build and maintain a website and 
  I don't have a physical storefront to sell from.  I did my selling for 9 
  years through auctions on ebay before switching to 10% auctions and 90% ebay 
  store.  I was just breaking even with the auction only by the time I 
  decided to migrate to the store method.  At 2 cents a post I was making 
  some money again and was working to get my store up to 10,000 to 12,000 
  items.  Sales were enough to pay for this and give me money to continue 
  buying for myself and resale.  This increase just has me worried.  I 
  don't want to increase my prices to try to balance things because that will 
  scare buyers away.  This is getting to be the season when things normally 
  pick up for me so I guess the next 4 or 5 months will give me the direction I 
  need.  I just hope I don't fall of this wall in the meantime.
   
  Rick   
  (ilovefilms)
   
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[MOPO] WTB: Movie posters with Vermont in the title

[Debi Jacobson]

Please let me know if anything is available. Debi

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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[Richard Auras]

This was a good question and I am glad to hear others feelings on this.  I myself am sitting on the wall with really nowhere to go.  I deal primarily in lower end material with none of the great A titles many of you have to offer.  I am a hobbyist who does this around a normal day job and family.  I don't have the luxury of shows and events here in San Antonio to set up in.  I don't have the time to build and maintain a website and I don't have a physical storefront to sell from.  I did my selling for 9 years through auctions on ebay before switching to 10% auctions and 90% ebay store.  I was just breaking even with the auction only by the time I decided to migrate to the store method.  At 2 cents a post I was
 making some money again and was working to get my store up to 10,000 to 12,000 items.  Sales were enough to pay for this and give me money to continue buying for myself and resale.  This increase just has me worried.  I don't want to increase my prices to try to balance things because that will scare buyers away.  This is getting to be the season when things normally pick up for me so I guess the next 4 or 5 months will give me the direction I need.  I just hope I don't fall of this wall in the meantime.
 
Rick   (ilovefilms)
 
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[MOPO] FA: Hitchcock,GammaPeopleTC,EgyptianTC,DoubleJeopardyTCAngelFaceWhiteCliffsDover

[Rixposterz]

Hi, Everyone,
 
  I have many FIRST TIME LISTED auctions closing on THURSDAY plus just 
as many items with opening bids CUT IN HALF!!  Please take a look if you 
have the chance.  Here's the link:
   
Thanks to all, Rick
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZrixposterz
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[MOPO] WTB: One sheets

[Posteritati]

Hello mopo,

We're looking for original one sheets of the following:

CHINATOWN near mint off-linen
SOME LIKE IT HOT
THIRD MAN
HOT ROD (1950)

Thanx!
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Regards,
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Posteritati
239 Centre Street
New York, NY  10013
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Re: [MOPO] Portal srikes again eB

[Dr Vollin Md]

160021439885- Seller says it came from an old theater in Cleveland. 20x26 Portal. He never claims it is original but claims it hung in a movie theater. I  have emailed the seller and told him there is NO such size movie poster. drV
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[MOPO] wanted: HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER US INSERT ONLY

[David Lieberman]

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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

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  -Original Message-From: MoPo List 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of pj 
  angelSent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:42 AMTo: 
  MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSubject: Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers 
  accepting eBay's massive price rise?
  Hi Bruce, MoPo,
   
  I closed mine in a symbolic knee-jerk protest after the fee increase 
  was announced last month. 
   
  For about 4 hours. Then re-opened it after a re-think. 
   
  As I stated in a previous MoPo post, my eBay Store, then and 
  now, is it's doing well.  It's a small store with only 
  300+ items. It continues to perform and I'm selling fixed-priced items at 
  a pace I can live with and profit by. I run a 10-20 item "core" auction 
  once a month and apparently those auction items get the customers to visit my 
  store. And they buy stuff and come back. Even without the "core" 
  auctions items sell.  
   
  Of course, I hate the fact that eBay is charging all that money for the 
  "privilege" of a store front, then add on closing fees, then tack on 
  PayPal fees, then... whatever's next fees, yet I don't have 
  another outlet that works quite as well as this eBay Store. A quandry, to be 
  sure.
   
  I'll keep my store, for now, because it remains active and 
  profitable even after paying the mutiple fees. I certainly 
  understand those folding and I reserve the right to change my mind at any 
  time.
   
  I'm very interested to hear other's thoughts on this topic.
   
  pjAngel
  http://stores.ebay.com/big-town-film-posters
  Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
  wrote:
  I 
closed one of my two eBay stores the day eBay announced their insane 
gouging price increases, and have just listed the items in my other 
store for the FINAL time (on the last day of the old prices). 30 days 
from now, I will close that store as well (I might well do it sooner, to 
beat the rush!).I know that lots of MoPo sellers have eBay stores, 
large and small. I am curious as to whether each of you are just saying, 
well, I can't live without it, so I have to pay the higher rates, or are 
you closing it, or are you just reducing the number of listings you have 
in it?BruceVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at 
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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[jim episale]

we've 
closed our EBAY store and are listing more and more on LAMP our success rate is 
a lot better than it ever was with the Ebay store
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  -Original Message-From: MoPo List 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of pj 
  angelSent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:42 AMTo: 
  MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSubject: Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers 
  accepting eBay's massive price rise?
  Hi Bruce, MoPo,
   
  I closed mine in a symbolic knee-jerk protest after the fee increase 
  was announced last month. 
   
  For about 4 hours. Then re-opened it after a re-think. 
   
  As I stated in a previous MoPo post, my eBay Store, then and 
  now, is it's doing well.  It's a small store with only 
  300+ items. It continues to perform and I'm selling fixed-priced items at 
  a pace I can live with and profit by. I run a 10-20 item "core" auction 
  once a month and apparently those auction items get the customers to visit my 
  store. And they buy stuff and come back. Even without the "core" 
  auctions items sell.  
   
  Of course, I hate the fact that eBay is charging all that money for the 
  "privilege" of a store front, then add on closing fees, then tack on 
  PayPal fees, then... whatever's next fees, yet I don't have 
  another outlet that works quite as well as this eBay Store. A quandry, to be 
  sure.
   
  I'll keep my store, for now, because it remains active and 
  profitable even after paying the mutiple fees. I certainly 
  understand those folding and I reserve the right to change my mind at any 
  time.
   
  I'm very interested to hear other's thoughts on this topic.
   
  pjAngel
  http://stores.ebay.com/big-town-film-posters
  Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
  wrote:
  I 
closed one of my two eBay stores the day eBay announced their insane 
gouging price increases, and have just listed the items in my other 
store for the FINAL time (on the last day of the old prices). 30 days 
from now, I will close that store as well (I might well do it sooner, to 
beat the rush!).I know that lots of MoPo sellers have eBay stores, 
large and small. I am curious as to whether each of you are just saying, 
well, I can't live without it, so I have to pay the higher rates, or are 
you closing it, or are you just reducing the number of listings you have 
in it?BruceVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at 
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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[pj angel]

Hi Bruce, MoPo,     I closed mine in a symbolic knee-jerk protest after the fee increase was announced last month.      For about 4 hours. Then re-opened it after a re-think.      As I stated in a previous MoPo post, my eBay Store, then and now, is it's doing well.  It's a small store with only 300+ items. It continues to perform and I'm selling fixed-priced items at a pace I can live with and profit by. I run a 10-20 item "core" auction once a month and apparently those auction items get the customers to visit my store. And they buy stuff and come back. Even without the "core" auctions items sell.       Of course, I hate the fact that eBay is charging all that money for the "privilege" of a store front, then add on closing fees, then tack on PayPal fees, then... whatever's next
 fees, yet I don't have another outlet that works quite as well as this eBay Store. A quandry, to be sure.     I'll keep my store, for now, because it remains active and profitable even after paying the mutiple fees. I certainly understand those folding and I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.     I'm very interested to hear other's thoughts on this topic.     pjAngel  http://stores.ebay.com/big-town-film-posters  Bruce Hershenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  I closed one of my two eBay stores the day eBay announced their insane gouging price increases, and have just listed the items in my other store for the FINAL time (on the last day of the old
 prices). 30 days from now, I will close that store as well (I might well do it sooner, to beat the rush!).I know that lots of MoPo sellers have eBay stores, large and small. I am curious as to whether each of you are just saying, well, I can't live without it, so I have to pay the higher rates, or are you closing it, or are you just reducing the number of listings you have in it?BruceVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend 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.
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Re: [MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[Kenwick Cook]

Good question... haven't decided yet... been pulling items out as they 
end, but I have so much other stuff, besides movie posters, getting ready for 
listing and I don't know what to do with them.
 
One of the most recent disappointing "Seller Specials" was last 
week's "Store-To-Auction-Style 10-cent Listing-Sale"... Only for Store 
Owners... only we had to pay the normal listing fees and we will not be 
"credited" until end of September... what kind of nonsense is THAT?!?!?! Anyway, 
I was suckered into it and here's some stuff you've already seen, reduced 
(ending tonight... other movie stuff, too including more Famous Monsters 
magazines):
 
http://stores.ebay.com/Castle-of-Frankenwick_Original-Movie-Posters_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ3023536QQftidZ2QQtZkm
 
Wasn't even going to bother the MoPo group with the link this week, but 
since the question came up, I figure what the heck... as for my future store? 
I'll reduce listings... probably combine stuff in "lots" for awhile and when I 
see eBay making more of my money than myself, will probably pull the plug, too. 
Collecting is expensive enough... why should selling be expensive? I'm just a 
small-time guy here... can't imagine how much this affects the true 
dealers.
 
Good Luck;
FranKenwick
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[MOPO] Are MoPo sellers accepting eBay's massive price rise?

[Bruce Hershenson]

I closed one of my two eBay stores the day eBay announced their 
insane gouging price increases, and have just listed the items in my 
other store for the FINAL time (on the last day of the old prices). 
30 days from now, I will close that store as well (I might well do it 
sooner, to beat the rush!).


I know that lots of MoPo sellers have eBay stores, large and small. I 
am curious as to whether each of you are just saying, well, I can't 
live without it, so I have to pay the higher rates, or are you 
closing it, or are you just reducing the number of listings you have in it?


Bruce

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[MOPO] Portal srikes again

[Dr Vollin Md]

WHAT I HAVE HERE IS A VERY OLD MOVIE LOBBY POSTER. THIS POSTER COME FROM A THEATER THEY TORE DOWN IN CLEVELAND. IT IS A POSTER OF THE MOVIE: THE WIZARD OF OZ.  IT HAS JUDY GARLAND, FRANK MORGAN, RAY BOLGER, BERT LAHR, AND JACK HALEY. IT SAYS METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYERS TECHNICOLOR TRIUMP. A VICTOR FLEMING PRODUCTION. ACROSS THE BOTTOM IT SAYS PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PORTAL PUBLICATIONS LTD. METRO GOLDWYN MAYER.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1939. THE POSTER IS 20" X 26" AND IS IN A PROTECTIVE DISPLAY CASE. THIS IN IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. 
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[MOPO] FA:Ending Dolce Vita, Thing, Elm Street, Nausicaa, Pulp Fiction+++

[Erich Linder]

Just a little reminder that I have ten Japanese poster auctions ending this
evening:

www.lindersauctions.com/ebay

Pulp Fiction Style A
Bound
La Dolce Vita R82
Fight Club
Empire of the Sun Style B (Gold foil)
Nausicaa Style A
Bad Timing
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Thing (Carpenter)
Solyaris (Tarkovsky)

Thanks for looking!

Erich


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[MOPO] FA/EBAY -- Channing's Summer Doldrums Sale ENDING THIS AFTERNOON! -- Some Great Buying Opportunities Here!

[channinglylethomson]

Tuesday 8/22/06

Hello MOPO Members --

This is a reminder -- I am having my annual Summer Doldrums Sale (part  
1) on EBAY.  I have 30 items on EBAY ending this evening (Tuesday) from  
5-6PM Pacific Time.  Many of these listings offer good buying  
opportunities for collectors and dealers --


http://search.ebay.com/ 
_W0QQfrppZ25QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsascsZ1QQsassZchanningpostersQQsbrsrtZd


* currently have bids
** several EBAY "watchers"

Aladdin -- double-sided rolled Walt Disney one-sheet
** Albuquerque -- Randolph Scott one-sheet--linen-backed
* Batman Returns -- rolled Catwoman one-sheet
** Best Years of Our Lives -- Original Best Picture Myrna Loy/Frederic  
March insert

* Beyond the Forest -- Bette Davis one-sheet
** Bladerunner -- rolled original release Harrison Ford science fiction  
one-sheet

A Christmas Story -- rare rolled one-sheet from Holiday classic
The Company She Keeps -- Jane Greer/Lizabeth Scott film noir insert
** The Damned Don't Cry -- Joan Crawford one-sheet
David and Bathsheba -- Gregory Peck/Susan Hayward one-sheet
Dead Ringer -- Bette Davis one-sheet
The Dragnet -- rare 1928 Josef Von Sterberg/Film Noir/Paramount lobby  
card
** Follow the Fleet -- great Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers reissue insert  
from the 50s
Follow the Sun -- Glenn Ford as Ben Hogan -- golf classic  
one-sheet-linen-backed

* Francis Goes to West Point -- Talking Mule comedy one-sheet
The Godfather Pt. II -- original unused three-sheet
* Hollywood or Bust -- Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin one-sheet -- Anita  
Ekberg cheesecake poster
** King Kong -- the best reissue lobby card -- Kong and Fay Wray over  
New York Skyline

Hamlet -- original Laurence Olivier lobby card
Ma and Pa Kettle -- first in the series one-sheet
Quo Vadis -- Robert Taylor/Deborah Kerr Biblical epic one-sheet
** Revenge of the Jedi -- rolled one-sheet
Rodeo Rhythm --unusual kids rodeo one-sheet
Roman Holiday -- Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn reissue one-sheet
* Six-Gun Law -- Charles Starrett/Durango Kid one-sheet -- reduced price
** St. Louis Blues -- jazz one-sheet from the 1950s!  Black cast.
Valley of the Dolls -- the lobby card -- Patty Duke tearing Susan  
Hayward's wig off!

** Way Way Out -- rare Jerry Lewis 60s six-sheet with art by Jack Davis
** Tarzan and the Mermaids -- Johnny Weissmuller half-sheet
** Without Reservations -- John Wayne/Claudette Colbert insert

Thank You,

CHANNING THOMSON
PO BOX 330232
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94133-0232
PHONE #415-771-9114

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