Favorite Files

No favorite files added yet

Recent Posts

1. Comment - Apple denies it caved in to NBCU's requests on iTunes pricing

   (Sep 11, 2008 - 9:24 PM)

   I, as my father before, moonlighted as a union projectionist for years. That is the way I paid for college. This allowed me to closely observe how the movie studios controlled the theaters.
   
   When I ran the original Star Wars when it first came out. Even at that time 110% of all box office sales receipts when straight back to the Studios. In other words, for $10 in ticket sales, $11 had to be sent back to the Studios. The theaters then made their profit from candy, popcorn, and coke sales.
   
   The movie industry has had an illegal monopoly on movie distribution for the last 50 years. Years ago they insisted that every theater take so many grade B movies before they could have a grade A movie. More recently, that have forced all the theaters take the same movies. If you don't believe me, look at any newspaper. You need only to look at one 20-plex theater to know 95% of what all the rest of the theaters will be playing.
   
   They also freeze out good movies. For example, "Encounters at the End of the Earth", was almost completely frozen out of many places because it was not "commercial" enough.
   
   They are just trying to do the same thing to the same thing they have always done, but now in the digital age.