Record earnings for new Harry Potter flick
p2pnet news view | Movies:- There’s an open cycle in corporate movie industry.
Year after year,the major Hollywood studios use their MPAA to claim they’re being brought to ruin by file sharers stealing their movies and posting them on the P2P networks.
But they always neglect to mention Hollywood insiders are largely responsible for the online leaks, which somehow never seemed to make any difference to earnings, MPAA claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
Year after year they report profits were even more eye-popping than the year before.
Right now, for example, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is a raging, full-blooded money earner for Warner Bros.
A badly scripted, painfully boring love story of two teenaged couples, it’s already pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars, and looks like earning even more.
“In a massive start, Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” easily scored the biggest midnight gross of all-time in earning $22.2 million as it unspooled in 3,003 runs at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday,” said Variety. “That figure beats the $18 million earned in midnight runs by Warners’ very own ‘The Dark Knight’ and the $17 million earned by 20th Century Fox’s ‘Star Wars: Episode III —Revenge of the Sith’.”
The MPAA’s Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman made a huge fuss when Revenge of the Sith turned up online before its official release.
“There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith,” he raved.
But a Hollywood insider was responsible. Same same with countless other movies, Wolverine being one of the more recent examples.
Now, “Half-Blood Prince” opens in the same Wednesday slot that “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” did in 2007. “Order of the Phoenix” grossed $12 million in midnight runs on its way to a $139.7 million five-day debut,” says Variety.
And Yes. It can be found online.
No need to stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Variety – ‘Harry Potter’ pulls in $22.2 million, July 15, 2009
theft dims the magic – Star Wars ‘Sith’ p2p uploader, January 26, 2006
Wolverine – Never mind online leaks, Wolverine a hit, May 2, 2009
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July 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
This is not magic this is crimes.
Glueman is a criminal like the rest of his friends at the MPAA/RIAA and they will all end up in jail for a long time or worst. I swear!
I am not going to see this new Harry Putter movie.
I AM BOYCOTTING!
FUCK YOU MPAA! NO MONEY FOR THE PARASITES!
We can not afford parasites in our societies.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
and currently, just on The Pirate Bay, over 150,000 seeders for a telesync.. geez….
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
The STG copy is perfectly watchable, although it seemed to me like some scenes were missing. One minute harry is talking to a professor in a classroom, in the very next scene he’s knocking on the professor’s door. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be, but it seemed a little abrupt to me. Some of the characters seemed to acting “out of character” and a few things were left unexplained. It definitely wasn’t up to par with the previous films.