p2pnet - rss feed: Hollywood reports ‘banner year’
p2p news / p2pnet: Like their corporate music industry brethren, the major movie studios claim they’re being ravaged by file sharers who post features on the p2p networks, robbing the likes of Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney of their rightful dues.
Never mind that that significant numbers of the miscreants seem to be Hollywood insiders rather than kids with cams.
However, in its annual theatrical market statistics report out today, the Big Six-owned MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) says blockbuster films had a banner year.
Eight movies brought in more than $200 million, compared to just five in 2004, and, “The total number of films released in the U.S. increased by 5.6% from 2004.”
New releases by the major studios grossed an average of $37 million in 2005, an increase of 7% over the past five years.
And although US box office takes dipped by 6% in 2005, they “remained healthy” with nearly $9 billion in revenue.
“Last year, 1.4 billion theater tickets were sold in the US and the worldwide box office recorded intake of $23 billion, which was a 7.9% decline over the previous year,” it says.
So what does it cost to make a Hollywood movie these days?
The average bill for making and market a flic in 2005 remained under $100 million, falling slightly to $96.2 million.
Marketing costs were up 5.2%, but production costs went down 4% from the previous year and the MPAA’s owners, “spent more on network television and Internet advertising and less on newspapers and local television,” it says.
March 10th, 2006 at 3:30 am
This is sort of like an opera. Can’t tell the players without a program.
So here we have a story claiming everything is coming up roses. Prehaps they would care to expain this one? Or was this the fluff piece for the stockholders?
World box office dipped 7.9 pct to 23 billion dollars last year : study
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/09/060309211938.c3imi3s8.html
…or maybe this one is to be read by those they want to influance by the “p2p is killing us” crowd, when going for legislation.
March 10th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
Lets see, people are buying $10,000 flat panel TV’s to watch movies at home.. buying fancy $5,000 Bose and similar sound systems to rival or exceed the sound quality as well… Not to mention, to avoid those loud annoying people in row 6 that think its a talking competition or the kids in front of you that cant sit down for 20 seconds at a time… or was it the teenagers sitting behind them sticking gum in their hair…or kicking their seats.. but then there’s always the one theater I’d been to with the single blown speaker crackling away instead of pumping the desired sounds into the room…
Really! - COME ON!
There are dozens (hundreds?) of reasons to watch a movie @ home instead of a crappy, overpriced theater! I’ll go to a drive-in but I’ll pass when it comes to a walk in…
Their sales are up - because their best friend P2P has been their free advertising - where people download and love the movie but hated the quality of the rip and head to their local Wal-Mart to buy it.
I’m so tired of p2p’ers being classified as pirates. Pirates are those bootlegging lamers that the people in the scene hate with a passion. P2P simplifies distribution where without it one person would rent a movie and have their friends come over or just drop it off at a friends house for them to watch and drop back off at the store, now they share it directly… Sure 1:10 prolly buy, but it’s always been my opinion that 1:20 would have bought without p2p.. as ‘most’ p2p’ers are lower income/no income and would otherwise not have viewed the movie anyway without the p2p gift of advertising… imho it functions like shareware.. you can use it but to get the full-frilled version (inserts, fancy case, good-quality video, etc) you need to buy it at the store…
For people on a budget (or like some countries where $20USD is equal to their weekly earnings) p2p will remain to persuade their budget - for everyone else, they’re just going to keep pulling because they ‘can’.
Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_
December 7th, 2006 at 6:45 am
does anyone get confused sometimes.one storry saying movies are bringing in the millions and another saying movies are losing billions.which is it?do they just say that to make people rush out and buy two more copies of a movie they already have.seems like the people who do the stats are some way affliated with the mpaa.thats just my opion.