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Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads
MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace it. This could usher in a new era of legal movie downloads like iTunes for music, as Bollywood, the Indian film industry produces 1000 movies a year and outstrips hollywood by almost 3:1. Theaters worldwide sold some 3.6 billion tickets to Bollywood films last year, compared with Hollywood's 2.6 billion. In revenue terms Bollywood is already larger than the British, Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian movie industry and is growing at a very fast rate."
Not true.... Many filsm coming out of that part of the world are gaining fans all around the world. It is truly a refreshing change from the trash we usually get here. There are going to be some duds. I am surprised, though, that they sell more tickets than Hollywood does. The net gross is nowhere near as LA.....
Where are the testosteroned rivals, here ?
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But on the other hand maybe movie distribution will become the killer app for broadband in India :)
Bad plots are very successful in US too. Take, for example, the success of "reality TV". The only themes are greed (the final prize money) and lust (think, all the junk from Fox). Everything else is sort of padded on just like one would pad on a plot line in a pr0n film.
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"India produces as many as 1,000 movies each year with revenues of more than $1 billion." -- The Globe and Mail
This indicates revenue of a million a movie; that's a paltry sum which no American movie house would bother with.
"Bollywood's global annual revenues, estimated at $1.3 billion this year, are small change compared with Hollywood's $51 billion." --Business Week
This shoots down the other misdirection in the article. Sell all the tickets you want, Bollywood. You're still pulling less than 1/39th the cash that Hollywood takes in.
A lot of people watch these movies. I have seen a few. To a film, they were insipid. Do yourselves a favor and avoid the musicals at all costs.
But don't worry. They're not going to take over the film industry.
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israel is a "world power" because it is completely propped up with american handouts. the state of israel is the single biggest recipient of american foreign aid. thrity per cent of all u.s. foreign aid money goes there. thirty percent! that's $3billion a year.
not hard to be a "world power" with those kinds of freebies.
oh yeah, here's my source... and here and here
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Hollywood makes a lot of trash, but the difference is that in America (and Europe, and Japan, and China) there are thriving independent/auteurist filmmakers who can make quality work and find funding for it. India has almost nothing like that right now - and Bollywood productions are completely, utterly formulaic in a way that even Hollywood doesn't approach. A generally censorious environment doesn't help much.
There are a number of great Indian filmmakers - of course, there was Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest filmmakers ever - but they don't enjoy the same beneficial relationship with Bollywood that American independents have with Hollywood.