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Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record
kamikazearun sends in a TorrentFreak analysis that begins "Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the industry and causing billions in losses are once again being shredded. In 2009, the leading Hollywood studios made more films and generated more revenue than ever before, and for the first time in history the domestic box office grosses will surpass $10 billion. ... [N]either the ever-increasing piracy rates nor the global recession could prevent Hollywood having its best year ever in 2009. With an estimated $10.6 billion in consumer spending at the US and Canadian box office, the movie industry will break the 2008 record by nearly a billion dollars."
I'm shocked...
Entropy just isn't what it used to be.
"We could have made 20 Billion if it weren't for all of those pirates!"
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
Which the inner geek in me embraces Star Trek but oddly the girlfriend would not go with me to the theater to see so I got it on dvd.
We did go see Twilight god help me got being so whipped.
"I could theorize that any attempt to replicate a theater experience at home is also "lame" but that would be rather presumptuous."
It could be quite interesting and not "lame" at all.,,
Invite as many derelicts as you can find over for whiskey and popcorn, then hand out prepaid cellphones so they can enjoy them while watching the movie.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
"Canada, Prague, or other random foreign countries"
Its good to know that geography teaching is US schools is reaching such high levels, despite the constant job losses!
Yeah, how stupid is he, not knowing that Canada is a state?
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
... $10 billion include the overpriced popcorn?
Have gnu, will travel.
Have you seen the shit they put out in the last 7 years? Small wonder...
I think they were referring to the fact that Prague is actually another planet.
Speaking of innovations, there's this wonderful new invention for writers called the paragraph.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
And we've had deflation since March.
If by "deflation" you mean that the dollar has lost a quarter of its value.
I love how Hollywood just sends Michael Bay out with the single mission to fill cinemas.
If Hollywood really just wanted to make a quick buck, they'd just throw together a trailer full of tidal waves, nuclear bomb test footage, explosions, robots, Michael Bay's name, then release the obligatory blockbuster movie trailer with such delightful quips as: "in a world... explosion... awesome... teenage cleavage... het-er-o-sex-u-al... stuff you liked when you were twelve..."
It doesn't even matter if there is an actual movie. It will make BILLIONS.
Speaking of innovations, there's this wonderful new invention for writers called the paragraph.
Pff. Like I'm going to go about using someone's likely patented-by-now "paragraph invention". Perhaps in maybe 28 years or so when the pending patents expire and I no longer have to worry about patent trolls suing me for breaking up my written text into managable related topics I'll go ahead and make use of them. Until then, I'm going to do a work around and patent the "-" technique. - What is this technique you ask? I'm glad you asked. It's an invention, patent pending, where you split your blocks of related text with a simple dash. It works wonders compared to this "paragraph" thing you're talking about because it saves paper which helps preserve the rainforests. Thus I'm filing it as a green technology to fast track the process. - You might think it's stupid but once it catches on and I'm rolling in the dough we'll see who's laughing. - - Anon Coward
While snopes.com is an entertaining idea, it is false.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
You at least live in the States for that warning to make sense. To us in Asia it feels retarded to see that knowing the FBI as no jurisdiction out here!