First check out This thread. Basically, Hollywood is crying because piratism is killing them and they want strong measures to kill it.
After thinking about that for a while, read this:
<< LAS VEGAS, March 6 ? Hollywood pinned a medal on itself for a job well done. Even after the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, and with the country in a recession, movie admissions for 2001 turned out to be the highest since 1959. And a record number of films ? 20 in all ? reached the $100 million mark.
?A LOT OF PEOPLE thought that after Sept. 11, the movie industry would go into the tank, that people would be umbilically connected to their electronic box in their living room and wouldn?t dare leave home,? Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said. ?But for some strange, and to me not bizarre, reason, the opposite happened.?
Admissions last year were 1.5 billion, a 5 percent increase from the previous year and a 30 percent increase from 1991, according to the motion picture industry?s key trade group.
Frequent moviegoers and family-friendly films helped drive ticket sales even though the number of movie screens continued to decrease, Valenti said Tuesday during ShoWest, an annual convention for theater operators meeting in Las Vegas through Thursday.
Frequent moviegoers ? those who see at least 12 films a year ? accounted for 82 percent of all admissions, he said.
PRODUCTION COSTS SLASHED
Along with the good news on admissions, the movie studios slashed costs of making movies by 13 percent in 2001, according to MPAA figures. The average Hollywood movie cost $47.7 million in 2001, down from $54.8 million in 2000.
The number of theater screens, which peaked at almost 38,000 in the middle of 2000, fell to 35,459 by the end of 2001, said John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners.
?This is a worldwide phenomenon for us, where admissions are going up during a time of economic challenge,? he said.
Valenti called last year the ?greatest box office year in film history,? with total receipts of $8.41 billion. Of the record 20 films that reached the $100 million mark, five went soared past $200 million, including ?Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone? and ?The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.?
And of those five, none had an R rating, proof that people want more family-oriented films, Fithian said. Only three of the top 20 films were rated R. >>
After thinking about that for a while, read this:
<< LAS VEGAS, March 6 ? Hollywood pinned a medal on itself for a job well done. Even after the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, and with the country in a recession, movie admissions for 2001 turned out to be the highest since 1959. And a record number of films ? 20 in all ? reached the $100 million mark.
?A LOT OF PEOPLE thought that after Sept. 11, the movie industry would go into the tank, that people would be umbilically connected to their electronic box in their living room and wouldn?t dare leave home,? Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said. ?But for some strange, and to me not bizarre, reason, the opposite happened.?
Admissions last year were 1.5 billion, a 5 percent increase from the previous year and a 30 percent increase from 1991, according to the motion picture industry?s key trade group.
Frequent moviegoers and family-friendly films helped drive ticket sales even though the number of movie screens continued to decrease, Valenti said Tuesday during ShoWest, an annual convention for theater operators meeting in Las Vegas through Thursday.
Frequent moviegoers ? those who see at least 12 films a year ? accounted for 82 percent of all admissions, he said.
PRODUCTION COSTS SLASHED
Along with the good news on admissions, the movie studios slashed costs of making movies by 13 percent in 2001, according to MPAA figures. The average Hollywood movie cost $47.7 million in 2001, down from $54.8 million in 2000.
The number of theater screens, which peaked at almost 38,000 in the middle of 2000, fell to 35,459 by the end of 2001, said John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners.
?This is a worldwide phenomenon for us, where admissions are going up during a time of economic challenge,? he said.
Valenti called last year the ?greatest box office year in film history,? with total receipts of $8.41 billion. Of the record 20 films that reached the $100 million mark, five went soared past $200 million, including ?Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone? and ?The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.?
And of those five, none had an R rating, proof that people want more family-oriented films, Fithian said. Only three of the top 20 films were rated R. >>
Facebook
Twitter