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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."
and that they'll be putting Hollywood out of business, possibly within the next three years."
Hollywood needs to be put down. They better stop paying their super stars enormous amounts of money and start behaving like real businesses. BTW. I just watched "The Transporter" at Famous Players. I am really sorry I went - what a rip off.
I put a small review of the movie
right here under title "Pathetic" and there are other reviews there that indicate what this movie is like.
I personally have not seing a great movie in theaters since the Matrix. Even LOTR did not give me the same effect as the Matrix.
I just want to see Solaris (coming out in November) and the next 2 films of the Matrix, and then it can all go to hell.
You can't handle the truth.
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