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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."
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Redundant shit stuff on slashdot frontpage.. WOW!! ALL together now, applauses to Taco!!!!
you know there *are* distinction between the races
the probability of someone doing something is different for different things
and i think everyone knows the probablility of niggers being loud and obnoxious is far higher than for whites (which is higher than say, indians or chinese)
I don't mind the trailers... I like trailers.
What I _do_ mind are the commercials. There were four or five commercials in front of the last movie I saw, and only one trailer!
You know, if the Washington sniper would shoot only people who are rude in movie theaters, I don't think anyone would be interested in stopping him.
Try living in San Antionio or anywhere else in South Texas. You will see parents bringing kids into really harsh R and unaccpetable PG-13 movies that I wouldn't let my pre-teen see. And of course they run around and scream, cry, and freak out at the scary stuff. Talk about irresponsble.
I never would have guessed from your user name.
You sir are a sad waste of skin, whatever the color!
I went to a black movie theater *once*. I'll *never* do that again. Black people seem to think that talking to the movie can help the characters out of bad sitations, or that nobody else can hear them saying "That's right, sister" at the top of their lungs. What a damn bunch of monkeys.