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Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office

Posted by michael on from the buying-your-gross dept.

cybercuzco writes "The movie industry is blaming poor sales of such movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling them that the movie stinks. Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image. Expect texting to be banned by the MPAA in the near future."

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  1. Re::-D by Malcontent · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    It depends on your definition of success.

    If battlefield earth caused a dozen people to get sucked into the scientology cult then it was a success for scientology. They spend nothing (hollywood footed the bill after all) and got new members out of the deal.

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  2. Re:Okay.... by Alan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Agreed. I was actually looking for the SCO icon, as the story sounds about as incrediable as the latest SCO claims.

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  4. Re:uh yeah that's it by tlacicer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that's comedy damn it ...

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  5. Dammit, submitted this story 2 days ago! by Phoenix666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think there should be a karma credit for being ahead of the /. editorial curve. This is about the fourth time this has happened. grumble grumble grumble

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