Movie Industry Cries All the Way to the Bank

shandrew writes: "Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, has reported that the year 2001 was the "greatest box office year in film history" with movie admissions reaching their highest level since 1959. Isn't this the same industry that is complaining that piracy is putting them out of business?"

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Well they could have made more!

[phunhippy]

Don't forget if there wasn't 350,000 downloads(hehe yeah right) a day of pirated music online this banner year for the film industry would be even great which is of course more reason why we should support all of their digital copyright ideas right away and with out any debate!!

hehe i got a bridge in brookyln i can sell ya reall cheap to :) hehehe you could even charge people
$25 for a once a year fee
$ 2 per hour of use
$ 5 for 1000 views of the bridge from the road

ok that was cruel :)

insert variables for the results on movie industry

[fruey]

docalc() {
p = profit
v = people at movies
y = dl pirates
}
get input v()
get input y()

p = v - y

ERROR! cannot quantify y!

Re:Same for the music industry..

[Dr. Evil]

Umm.. Just because its a record profit year, it still doesn't make it legal to steal movies/music.

Has anyone told the recording industry about this?

Re:Big pictures vs Small

[Artik Vodka]

The problem is that those movies reach others countries late. Before they hit the cinema, they hit the CD Recorder of your local friend who has a shitload of movies and sells them for 2.5 a piece after downloading from the Internet or ordering from the states.
Sometimes DVDs from States get here (Portugal) before the movie does (theater).
Lot's of people see it and lose interest.
Others like it, but ain't going to the cinema in two weeks to see it again.

So, they can get hit pretty bad.

They should release movies worldwide at the same time.

But of course no film ever makes a profit!

[JeffRC]

Remember, this is the same industry in which no film ever makes a profit, thus negating the need to pay royalties, yet somehow nobody ever goes bankrupt.

Re:Same for the music industry..

[Ringlord]

The cinema market may be booming but what about the VHS/DVD market? This is where the piracy is the worst,

While I enjoy the free piracy of movies on the net, I don't pretend that I have a moral rigth to pirate it. I am just a greedy swine that like to get stuff for free.

i'm gonna bring them down

[circletimessquare]

hey doodez...

i just spent the laugh half-hour downloading the divx version of "panic room" with 6 unexplained jumps/ black-outs, graininess, audio that sounds like it's on the inside of a washing machine, and some guy standing up in front of the handicam 30 minutes into the movie to go to the bathroom. i'm burning it on my cdrw now man!

come on over to my place, i'm showing it at 1:30 pm today on my 17 inch! the movie tends to hang in a few spots because my cdrom is a scsi, and i can't figure out which of my scsi devices down the chain is causing this periodic freezing, but no problemo! we're gonna bring down the movie industry man! you'll see!

They're lying.

[El Camino SS]

Hey, lets not forget that the RIAA was bitching the same bitch and making the same kind of profits a year ago, and now. Now things couldn't be bleaker, many people are predicting the demise of the recording industry entirely.

Think of this as the last days of disco. NO real musical acts got signed during disco... and it was all performance music. Everyone thought it was great at the time, and Arista and other groups cleaned up.

Everyone loved disco. But like all fads, it got old really quick. Then they got tired of it. Then overall record sales slumped. Then they had to find real musical acts... people wanted to listen to real music instead of dance. The same analogy can be about raving. It used to be about dancing, then it became all about the drugs. Very quick.

Do you think anyone will care about Britney Spears in five years after we have been Britney bombed? Honestly, did anyone care about the superbowl ad? I personally am getting tired of her ass, bigtime. The rest of America is too.

It's limping. The proof? O-Town. That fucking boy band couldn't make it, even with 50 hours of network television to back it. See? Aren't we all just getting a little tired of Justin Timberlake? Aren't we all just a little ashamed that we know his name when we see his face?

In about a year, they'll have to look at real musicians again... whereas my little hometown of NAshville, TN will just keep chuggin' along. But even they had a country fad about 4 years ago... and yes, they whined that they were "dying" afterword. Yeah, after record breaking profits.

Give it a year, and make sure you turn off MTV so that those idiot rappers that talk about thinly veiled anal sex references to nine year olds watching MTV don't get any money... although I think that they are propped up by all of the morons out there. That is the one trend that I wish would die, grassy knoll style. Because I cannot put up with a woman flapping her ass on camera to crappy Casio SK1 sounds.

Re:Same for the music industry..

[HKTiger]

Fascinating reading here, and I have to add my voice to the chorus of "why the hell spend that much money *making* the sodding things if they aren't paying off, then?!?" Given that a bunch of other industries are busily shedding much-needed staff ("downsizing") in order to scrape a few dollars off the expenditure to make the profit a tad bigger, whining that what you're doing *isn't* profitable because you're spending too much seems disingenuous at the least.

And apropos of nothing, am I the only one who keeps seeing "Jack Valenti, president of the Moron Picture Association of America"?