Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed

Cutriss writes "Seen at CNN, this article interviews Rick McCallum, longtime producer at LucasFilms. McCallum says that DVDs will be responsible for the downfall of the movie industry *without* taking piracy into account, due to the fact that people think the home theatre experience is just as good, or better than the big screens, and they know that in five months, the DVD will be out on the market. Of course, his claim that "studios are barely breaking even" falls on deaf ears when I hear about 9-digit salaries for individual actors in a big-name film that's just some rehash of an old concept. He also mentions, of course, that DVD piracy and movie "sharing" groups will only speed up the cycle, and that they'll be putting Hollywood out of business, possibly within the next three years."

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Re:Too Bad...

[mosch]

Yeah, the nerve of them, charging $9 so that you can sit in a $150 seat, watching a movie on a $8,000 screen, being displayed from a $90,000 projector, that's playing a $50,000 film while listening to a $100,000 sound system that's located in a $2,000,000 building!

I mean christ, they must think we're crazy!

* figures used in the above are based on a THX theater with a Barco DLP projector, showing a first-weekend movie