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First bans of mobiles during movie shows
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Hey cellphone at the moment only record poststamp-sized videos, do they think those will get burned and distributed as DVDs? Maybe, they are just afraid that their security can't tell the difference between a cellphone and a videocam...
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Hmm, that's pretty ridiculous if you ask me!
Something different about movietheatres and mobile phones: I just read 20th century Fox made a deal with some cinemas about using bluetooth for advertisement in theatres. In the following image (which I found on some German website) you can see how the company iSphere thinks about using bluetooth in cinemas. The idea is that at the entrance (transmitter nr. 1) you recieve the program of all the movies playing, inside the cinema you can recieve some trailers (don't ask why..), and when you leave you can get some cool wallpapers and ringtones of the movie you've just seen (nr. 3). ![]() Besides technical issues (like sending large sized movietrailers using bluetooth) it seems like a pretty cool idea to me. Especially if there are no extra costs involved ![]() |
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Well, when the Nokia N90 comes out there will be plenty of reason to ban cell phones in theaters.
I guess they'll make us dress in white gowns before entering the theater. Or maybe nude cinemas will take off! |
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Persecute the Innocent, great plan!
I sure hope nobody in any theatre from this point forward, has any emergency that requires calling 9-1-1, or any doctor that happens to be on-call during any emergency that comes into the hospital.
Quick, call 911, this man is having a heart attack!!! Phones during movies suck, especially when people are on them through the WHOLE movie, but banning EVERYONE from carrying a mobile phone is a bit ridiculous. Why punish EVERYONE for the bad deeds of a minority few who are trying to make copies of the movie? Uhm.. wait, let me find my claim tag and run up front... No no, the blue phone, with the white keypad. Not that one, the one over there! Oh wait, thats not mine, try that one over there! Damn, call the management, can SOMEONE call 911!?! If I purchased my ticket and had my phone or Palm confiscated at the door, you can bet I'd be turning right back around and getting a refund, and scratching that theatre off of my list of places to patronize with my money. |
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Nice picture, Alex. That Keira Knightly is drool drool.
The movie industry is hurting from low attendance and ticket sales, primarily because the skyrocketing costs of ticket prices and ancillary popcorns and such are not worth the trouble of getting dressed and parking and everything, (especially when the DVD is out 2 months later) and because most Hollywood movies suck or are rehashes (that suck; the studios claim that they're not getting good scripts, but the truth is that they're just not willing to take a chance and produce anything not formulaic.) People are choosing to forgo the "theater experience" in favor of staying home, microwaving popcorn, wearing pajamas and watching 2-3 movies at a time (and without the annoying trailers and commercials for 20 minutes into the time the movie's supposed to start (!). Idiot moves, like condemning the audience that's actually willing to come to the theater, typify the movie studios unwillingness to confront the real problem: getting seats in the theaters. The theater only receives about 10% of the box office, the remaining 90% goes to the distributors and studios and such. (The theater makes it's money from the concessions, that's why they seem so expensive because they're what's keeping the theater afloat.) These studios are full of people who are more concerned with turning $1 million into $2 million and are not concerned with providing the best stories. That is the reason why the formula is adhered to so strongly. A car chase here, a sex scene here, an "A" list actor (or two) for box office credibility, and a nauseating 3 month massive marketing blitz that's designed to make that opening weekend's receipts seem so impressive, and VOILA! Another "hit" that will be used in negotiating the overseas releases and the DVD sales. If you've ever noticed how, especially in the summer months, you'll see a thousand commercials a day for a certain movie that's not even coming out for 2 months, but after the movie comes out, you can hardly find a commercial for it (even when it's still in the theaters?) That first weekend is all-important, which is why some movies come out on Wednesday instead of the usual Friday, it boosts the receipts to make it seem like just millions upon millions of people flocked into the theaters to see this movie. It's all bollocks. (I live in the U.S., so I don't really know what bollocks means. It sounds cool to finally slip it into conversation.) Studios: Make better movies and you'll get the customers in the seats and you won't feel the loss of piracy. Also, release movies at the same time worldwide and decrease the anticipation (why wait 3-6 months?) Mattoquai: That's an interesting use for BT. I have a hard time believing that it'll be free and I'm concerned for the security of the phone users. Will they ask us if we want to accept the attachment? They should. Then, what'll stop malicious people from sending out similarly-sounding attachments that are intended to separate people from their money (or worse, their identities?) I might have to decline BT offers from the theater (if I ever find another movie worth seeing in the theater.) POL9A Last edited by Pride Of Lions; 07-21-2005 at 10:19 PM. Reason: Spelling. |
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![]() And I agree with you - most movies made only advertise before and not after, mainly because they only do well on the opening weekend, often because the movie's crap and no one will see it more than once... The exception I've noted to the rule over the past few years, is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Even months after the movies have hit theatres, they were still being advertised. I suppose that's because LotR were actually pretty good movies, as opposed to most of the current movies which are crap... Personally I am looking forward to Serenity, though... Firefly was a good series, but Fox chopped it's head off before it even had a chance... |
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The industry is talking about doing the same thing with regular broadcast television cable, through the use of the Broadcast Flag. That's roughly around the same time I'll be throwing my TV out on the curb and giving up on watching the news, cable, movies or videos. (Though I suppose ripping the DVD, encoding it and stripping out the commercials would work, I'm not about to go try that with my DVDs). Quote:
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I have, but...
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The theater experience needs to be streamlined and made more comfortable to the audience then it's become. When the paying audience is waiting for movies to come out on DVD instead of jumping through all those hoops, a paradigm has shifted and the studios need to adapt. Quote:
I work on a lot of low-budget indy films that no one's ever heard of and probably never will. (I'm not just a purist who's only into it for the "art", I'm just kinda low on the totem pole behind the guys/girls who have the 20-30 years experience. I'd've loved to have worked on Matrix 2-3 or Hulk, even though I would have never watched them in the theaters.) Some of these filmmakers are just trying to create some buzz in the community that they can attach to their names to make fundraising for the next project even easier. I know that they're hopeful that a studio will pick their film up after seeing it at one of the festivals, but realistically they want to get into the festivals, maybe win "Best Of" somewhere, and be able to put that on the DVD box and hope that it'll stand out on those crowded shelves and maybe make money in the long-term. If a movie gets picked up at the festival level, the filmmaker has essentially hit the jackpot. Now they will have more leverage in negotiating DVD sales and a little more notoriety and credibility when it comes to getting more money for the next project. (And hopefully they get more money, hire us all again at something more akin to our day rates and we all grow together. Unfortunately, most filmmakers move on to more "professional" crews when they get their money if they even decide to make more movies. Some are content having turned $100,000 into $200,000 and basically retire from the film biz.) I'm glad the studios stopped trying to guilt-trip the paying audience away from piracy with those lame testimonials that made it seem like piracy was affecting the crew menber, when it really only affects the studio. POL9A |
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