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Back in the 1970s, you either paid for a movie ticket to see a movie, or waited 3-5 years for it to show up on TV at an indeterminate time, with commercials interspersed, and with unknown editing.

Today, if you don't pay for a ticket, you can catch it on pay per view in a couple months, or rent it on Blu-ray/DVD/streaming, or watch it on a pay movie channel, or stream it from a service you already pay for like Netflix, or wait a couple years for it to show up on TV, or pirate it.

In the face all that new competition, the logical thing to do is to lower movie ticket prices to make the theater experience more attractive. Instead, studios and theaters have done the opposite and raised ticket prices. I don't mind seeing the occasional bad movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime, or HBO because I'm already paying for those services. The only thing I lose is 90-120 minutes of my time (and that's only if I choose not to stop watching before the movie finishes). With a theater ticket I lose my money as well as my time. So I don't think it's at all surprising that people are holding theater movies to a higher standard than in the past. The studios need adapt to how technology has changed in the last 50 years - lower ticket prices, or improve the ratio of good to bad movies.

Baroque Cycle is nothing compared to the adaptation Ron Howard is actually fucking contemplating doing:
http://collider.com/seveneves-...

:-)

Avatar, which was not only 3D but the highest-grossing movie of all time.

Only the second-highest, I'm afraid, in constant currency, which is the only meaningful way to measure it.

Even that's not a terribly useful metric, since cinema ticket prices have risen faster than inflation. You can argue that tickets are priced to the market, so inflation-adjusted gross is still some sort of indicator of popularity; but that's debatable. And then there's the problem that film availability has increased, so there's a larger market; on the other hand, there are also more alternatives competing for consumers' entertainment budget. And so on.

In short, the box-office gross of Avatar or any other film really doesn't tell us much except what the gross profits for theater distribution were. It's a dick-waving contest. What it most assuredly does not demonstrate is that there's any great demand for 3D films. In Avatar's case, it also doesn't prove that developing 3D technology was a good investment, since it doesn't show any causal link between 3D and ticket sales. Maybe Avatar would have done just as well without 3D. (Not having seen it myself, I couldn't hazard a guess. Certainly the plot summaries I've seen describe a trite and cliched story, but that's never been an impediment to success.)

20th Century Fox has distribution rights to the original movie forever, and has rights on movies 5-6 and 1-3 through 2020.

http://collider.com/fox-owns-star-wars/

This means that home releases of the original Star Wars movie cannot happen without Fox agreeing, so Fox will demand a cut of the profits. But assuming that Fox enjoys getting money, Fox will not prevent home releases of the original.

FUCK YEAH!

(for those that didn't get the joke: http://collider.com/scorpion-p... )

I've been reading a few comments else where that this is not the original. The original was destroyed and another was built for some commercials and the second movie. I found an image from the original movie and looking at the image on the website they do look a bit different. Even so would be cool to have the WOPR instead :) http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/WarGames-Sheedy-and-Broderick-on-computer.jpg

Actually, Simon Pegg (Scotty) had this to say about the Lens Flare:

[Interviewer:] Who made the first joke about lens flares?

[Pegg:] Probably some film student who wanted to demonstrate his or her knowledge of film terminology, thus elevating themselves to an assumed level of critical superiority, which gave them the kind of smug, knowing smile that indicates a festering sour grape, fizzing in the pit of their own ambition. It’s become a sort of communal stick to have a crack at JJ with, mostly by people who didn’t know what the fuck lens flare was, until someone started sneering the term all over their blog. It demonstrates JJ’s supreme talent as a film maker that the main means of knocking him is to magnify a throw away artistic choice, into some sort of hilarious failing. Lens flare is essentially an anomaly caused by light hitting the lens and creating refracted shapes. Because it draws attention to the fact that we are looking at a filmed event, it actually creates a subliminal sense of documentary realism and makes the moment more vital and immediate. In the same way Spielberg spattered his shots with bloody seawater in Saving Private Ryan, JJ suggests that the moment we are in is so real and alive, there just isn’t time to frame out all the light and activity. The irony is by acknowledging the film’s artifice, you are enhancing the reality of the moment. It’s clever and I love it. On set we call it ‘best in show’ and our amazing director of photography, Dan Mindel has a special technique to achieve it. To the detractors, I offer a polite fuck you and suggest you find a new stick to beat us with, if being a huge, boring neggyballs is necessary for your personal happiness.

Yes. Norman Bate's mother is super HOT!

Now that is just plain creepy!

Link please. I find nothing on IMDB and the top youtube link labelled "Incredibles 2 trailer 2013 HD" (with 2.5 million views) is just clips from Incredibles 1.

“I can’t say I’m actively working on it (incredibles 2), but I have some ideas and if I ever get it all together into a story that is at least as good as the one we did, I’d be happy to return to that world. I love working with Pixar.” -Brad Bird Oct 2011

http://collider.com/brad-bird-incredibles-2-interview/122625/

www.drafthouse.com

No babies allowed, except on baby nights.

Also you can order a pitcher of beer and a pizza from your seat.

And their no talking psa's are awesome and enforced.

http://collider.com/michael-madsen-alamo-drafthouse-psa/165640/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_cartoons#To_Kill_a_Talking_Bird

http://www.collider.com/wp-content/image-base/TV/C/Chuck_NBC/chuck_nbc_tv_show__1_.jpg

OP: "But until digital principal photography completely usurps celluloid, this may be good news for Kodak, who now have even more reason to lament the death of Stanley Kubrick."

Kodak ain't going to get a cent of extra "film" revenue from Peter Jackson. The Hobbit is filmed on 5K Red Epic Digital Cameras. http://collider.com/peter-jackson-the-hobbit-3d-red-epic-cameras/62263/

I bet hard drive makers are really happy though. ;)

That's just what Mr. Limpet wants you to think.

Also, don't insult the dominant male or else his manly dyke girlfriend will shit on your face.

She eats lots of mexican food, so you know it won't be pretty. To put it in a pizza analogy, it's like when a woman "sklitz-shits" on your pizza dough and you toss it only to have it splatter all over your floor and face when you fail to catch it. Oniony Viscous Mexican Shit.

Fortunately, there's an update at the same site with the real dope: It's 26 episodes, not 13! So, we get a full season. I know my fiancee and I are going to celebrate...

I had a stable job at a large brokerage firm, but felt I was missing out on the chance to get rich quick by not working at a dot com. So four months ago I left the stable job for a job at a pre-IPO dot com startup. I received a decent salary jump and options. I knew it was a gamble, but I kept hearing stories of 25 year old millionaires and I wanted to be one of them. Well, about a month ago my company laid off almost half of its employees (not me though), and the future here doesn't look much better.

In the long run I guess it worked out for me. The brokerage firm I worked for asked me to come back and I agreed. I'm currently finishing up my two weeks notice at the dot com. I'm getting another bump in pay and a promotion to go back. No, I didn't become a millionaire, but I got two large increases in pay and a promotion in 5 months and will be back in a stable job.

"and the only social disease I've contracted is bitterness!" - Collider