Foul-mouthed superhero earns $185.3 million
p2pnet news | Movies:- The Hollywood studios swear they’re being ruined by counterfeiters and file sharers, lumping the two together, although they have no relationship with each other.
There’s no doubt movies churned out by Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney are an irresistible to duplicators who use the billions of DVDs pumped out by the majors to make templates for fakes, which ultimately show up on street corners and flea markets around the world.
The effect? Huge, according to the studios.
They say it results directly in thousands of workers losing their jobs and serious drops in output because of a lack of financing. And MPAA boss Dan Glickman used to blame almost half Hollywood’s alleged domestic losses on US students —- until he was forced to admit the statistics used as the basis the claim were grossly inaccurate.
The producers also claim movies on the P2P networks are part of the problem, although they’ve never come close to proving that and in fact, it’s been asserted the online posts have two positive functions:
- They act as invaluable, and free, viral marketing tools; and,
- They allow cinema-goers to preview movies far more effectively than trailers, which often bear absolutely no relationship to the movies they’re meant to represent.
Meanwhile, claims of devastation notwithstanding, Hollywood continues to rake in mind-boggling revenues.
Sony’s Hancock, the story of a, “boozing, foul-mouthed superhero who dresses like a street bum, led the July 4 weekend with a $66 million debut, raising the total to $107.3 million since it opened Tuesday night to get a jump on the holiday, says the Associated Press.
Overseas, “the movie, “pulled in an additional $78 million in 50 other countries,” it says.
The 10-day total for previous weekend’s animated WALL-E was $128.1 million and, “Revenues this summer are at $2.22 billion, about 2 percent ahead of Hollywood’s record pace in 2007, when summer revenues topped $4 billion for the first time,” says the story.
Say the MPAA’s own figures:
- The domestic box office continued to grow in 2007, reaching $9.63 billion after a 5.4% gain.
- Worldwide box office reached another all-time high in 2007 with $26.7 billion, a 4.9% increase.
- Domestic theater admissions held steady at 1.4 billion tickets in 2007.
“Even though the industry set a record pace with its first $4 billion summer last year, the results are showing signs that 2008 could beat that record,” said MarketWatch recently, going on:
“Figures from box-office tracker Media By Numbers through June 15 show that the business raked in $1.46 billion in U.S. receipts for the first six weeks of what is considered the summer season, nearly 5% ahead of last year’s $1.4 billion.”
What’s, “even more remarkable about the 2008 season is that attendance is ahead of last year’s pace,” said the story.
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grossly inaccurate – MPAA (Australia) versus Organised Crime, July 2, 2008
Associated Press – ‘Hancock’ grabs heroic $107.3M over long weekend, July 6, 2008
MarketWatch- Summer films pull ahead of last year’s record pace, June 17, 2008
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Nice piece of “lies , damned lies and statistics” , your piece neglects the films that dont make a profit . This whole site is the other side of the RIAA , twisting facts and figures into what it wants to believe , misrepresenting perception and opinion as fact . You really really ought to stand back and take a look . Am I a RIAA supporter ? no , not at all , but I believe in truth , if you wish to swath opinion around numbers do it , but you just sound bitter and twisted , I feel sorry for you if you live like that .
July 7th, 2008 at 6:00 am
I wonder how many times Hancock has been downloaded.
Obviously that didn’t affect the box office returns.
” Nice piece of “lies , damned lies and statistics” , your piece neglects the films that dont make a profit. ”
The point of this site is to point out that the statements .. a download = a lost sale, and
downloading hurst the industry is a lie.
Every blockbuster so far this summer, that has made them a mint, has been a top download.
As for the films that don’t make a profit, those show to have very FEW downloaders.
This points out the reason the film didn’t make much profit.
It flat out sucked.
“Am I a RIAA supporter ? no ”
Stop lying, of course you are.
” but I believe in truth , ”
No you don’t stop lying .. all you are doing is spouting their talking points.
” if you wish to swath opinion around numbers do it , ”
Please, show us the numbers that support your opinion ?
Your speech sounds like a doofus that ‘don’t take no stock in that there book larnin’ ”
The RIAA swaths opinion around FAKED numbers all the time, and ignores the numbers that
don’t support their opinions. Numbers and statistics do show the truth, the truth that once
again, downloads of this leaked movie did not hurt the box office numbers one bit.
That’s the truth of it.
I feel sorry for the shills, they’ll be out of jobs pretty soon, especially you
if you don’t start doing better.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am
“your piece neglects the films that dont make a profit”
Good movies make money, bad movies don’t. It’s as simple as that.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am
“Good movies make money, bad movies don’t. It’s as simple as that.”
Define “good”. The most profitable films being churned out of the cultural cesspool known as Hollywood are the most crude, ill-conceived, poorly written low-brow humour flicks or the latest CGI-filled action/adventure/fantasy that reaks of Disney. The studios know this sort of thing appeals to the masses, which is why profits continue to skyrocket, while the quality of movies is at an all-time low. Popular movies make shitloads of money, intelligent ones don’t (but they still might get an oscar nominee).
July 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
” Popular movies make shitloads of money, intelligent ones don’t (but they still might get an oscar nominee). ”
Who can explain it ?
I can’t.
The item of pertinence here is that the popular movies that make a shitload of money, do so at the same time
they are being downloaded and shared.
The fact of downloading has zero effect on their moneymaking success.
Zero.
The less popular fare less well in BOTH the box office and downloading areas.
Downloading showing ZERO apparent effect .. again.
” Nice piece of “lies , damned lies and statistics” , your piece neglects the films that dont make a profit . ”
This particular poster fails to mention the biggest lies, damned lies etc .. of all of them.
A Download equals a Lost sale.
That’s the whopper the industry rests its whole entire argument on, and has proven
time and time again to be completely false.
This poster neglects facts that don’t support his/her bullshit.
I too wish to see that posters own supporting facts, but we all know .. we wont.
That poster will simply return and sling more industry hash and mix it with Ad Hominem.
There are simply no facts to back up that poster.