[MOPO] Over-used movie poster cliches...
Don't know if anybody posted this already, but even so it's worth a second look: http://hypenotice.com/enterteainment/visual-representations-of-over-used-movie-poster-cliches/28/ Dave Posteropolis Vintage Movie Posters http://www.posteropolis.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Sorry, but it's just more boo-hooing from a gluttonous Tinseltown. According to Box Office Mojo, there have been (so far) 58 feature films who world-wide box-office has exceeded $100 million dollars. In addition, three films, Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - Part 5, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have all grossed over 1 billion worldwide. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htm The majority of these films received 50% or more of their box-office from overseas ticket sales. These totals are for box-office receipts only and do not include cable, pay-per-view, DVD or licensed merchandise sales. So don't be surprised to see more CGI-laden, bad super-hero and animated movies in the future. As long as they rake in the bucks globally, Hollywood will continue to make them. I have attending movies regularly since the late 1940s and I have always held the ritual of goin' to the movies dear to my heart. Of late, however, I have found myself growing increasingly reluctant to brave the crowds and traffic, pay the high cost of admission and attempt to enjoy a film while I am surrounded by a sea a tiny blue screens in the darkness while members of the audience tweet and text. BTW, I always buy the overpriced popcorn and drinks. I was an independent theatre owner in Houston during the 1970s and fully realize that the refreshments are where the theatre owners -- not the studios -- make their profit. Don't be surprised if domestic film attendance and revenues continue to drop as more Americans are able to enjoy at least a facsimile of the theatrical experience at home. We also have many more options vying for our entertainment dollars, of which, in this stagnant economy, fewer and fewer are available. The rest of the world is not as blessed and continues the theatrical experience as a major entertainment event. Once upon a time a motion picture was available only on 35mm in multiple, heavy metal reels and cans. Now that same film can be stored and watched on a tiny, thin storage disc that could get lost in your pocket. As technology increases, the need for archaic means of film distribution and exhibition -- which has remained essentially unchanged for more than a century -- grows less and less. Best, Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU www.captainbijou.com - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers Philip to recapitulate, what you're saying is: the US has 300,000,000 people the world has 7,000,000,000 people the 4% of the world population the US has is becoming unimportant in comparison to the 96% of the other people on the Earth THE NERVE OF THOSE FILM COMPANIES Rich At 09:03 AM 12/29/2011, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be made. Arnold Terminator wasn't even allowed to speak English in his first film. Movies done by US producers are now made, cast and greenlit with an eye to International Box Office. Casts are often put together not just on their ability to gel, but also on the basis of what worldwide markets that can deliver. It is possible that this year's total worldwide revenue will once again hit an all time high. While producers are concerned about the drop in Domestic Box Office, they are not going to put that at risk while they have found a formula that has driven International and total Box-Office growth for the last 25 years. International press tours and local market TV appearances are important to ticket sales in a way that they never were before. More and more films are cast with an eye to the ability of some of the stars to dub their own voices and to have
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Earl certainly has a major point. the theatre experience sucks in the US because the person next to you doesn't give a damn about the person next to them. I could never understand why people come to the theatre pay admission so they can chat to their friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, sister, brother or any other person while irritating everyone else. and concerning gluttonous Hollywood. yes.. just more whining so they can get congress to kanoodle with them for the most part, I don't go to the theatre anymore. Most of the films that come out I wouldn't pay $12 to see when Tarantino or Coen bros do a film, I go. The rest I wait for a dvd mostly At 11:17 AM 12/29/2011, Captain Bijou wrote: Sorry, but it's just more boo-hooing from a gluttonous Tinseltown. According to Box Office Mojo, there have been (so far) 58 feature films who world-wide box-office has exceeded $100 million dollars. In addition, three films, Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - Part 5, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have all grossed over 1 billion worldwide. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htmhttp://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htm The majority of these films received 50% or more of their box-office from overseas ticket sales. ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / These totals are for box-office receipts only and do not include cable, pay-per-view, DVD or licensed merchandise sales. So don't be surprised to see more CGI-laden, bad super-hero and animated movies in the future. As long as they rake in the bucks globally, Hollywood will continue to make them. I have attending movies regularly since the late 1940s and I have always held the ritual of goin' to the movies dear to my heart. Of late, however, I have found myself growing increasingly reluctant to brave the crowds and traffic, pay the high cost of admission and attempt to enjoy a film while I am surrounded by a sea a tiny blue screens in the darkness while members of the audience tweet and text. BTW, I always buy the overpriced popcorn and drinks. I was an independent theatre owner in Houston during the 1970s and fully realize that the refreshments are where the theatre owners -- not the studios -- make their profit. Don't be surprised if domestic film attendance and revenues continue to drop as more Americans are able to enjoy at least a facsimile of the theatrical experience at home. We also have many more options vying for our entertainment dollars, of which, in this stagnant economy, fewer and fewer are available. The rest of the world is not as blessed and continues the theatrical experience as a major entertainment event. Once upon a time a motion picture was available only on 35mm in multiple, heavy metal reels and cans. Now that same film can be stored and watched on a tiny, thin storage disc that could get lost in your pocket. As technology increases, the need for archaic means of film distribution and exhibition -- which has remained essentially unchanged for more than a century -- grows less and less. Best, Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU http://www.captainbijou.com/www.captainbijou.com - Original Message - From: mailto:sa...@comic-art.comRichard Halegua Posters + Comic Art To: mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUMoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers Philip to recapitulate, what you're saying is: the US has 300,000,000 people the world has 7,000,000,000 people the 4% of the world population the US has is becoming unimportant in comparison to the 96% of the other people on the Earth THE NERVE OF THOSE FILM COMPANIES Rich At 09:03 AM 12/29/2011, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be
[MOPO] FA: 999 lots of 2 to 15 vintage stills close soon, many hundreds still $1 per lot with 13 hours left!
*IT MUST BE BECAUSE WE ARE SMACK DAB IN BETWEEN THE HOLIDAYS, BUT I JUST LOOKED OVER THE** 999 LOTS OF STILLS CLOSING TONIGHT, AND I SAW LOTS AN**D LOTS OF REALLY WILDLY UNDER-PRICED ITEMS, SO IF YOU LIKE VINTAGE STILLS AT ALL, THEN BE SURE TO LOOK THEM OVER VERY CAREFULLY, BECAUSE AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE INCREDIBLE DEALS (remember, every lot has at least two stills in it, so there are many hundreds of lots that are currently just pennies per still!). **We have * 999 lots of vintage 8 x 10 stills (containing 2 to 15 stills per lot with 4,449 stills in all!) at auction, and there are just 13 hours to go before they start to end * TONIGHThttp://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/4/14.html * Thursday, December 29th. I just looked over the current prices on these just about to end items, and the prices on many of them are really hard to believe! With just over a day to go, the 999 lots of vintage 8 x 10 stills include a makes-you-want-to-cry 327 that are still wilting at just $1 each or have no bid, a truly insane 479 that are still withering at just $3 each or under, and a Mt. Everest-like 647 that are $5 each or under! *THAT'S RIGHT, JUST UNDER HALF ARE CURRENTLY $5 EACH OR UNDER AND **JUST UNDER TWO THIRDS** OF THE ITEMS ARE CURRENTLY $5 EACH OR UNDER! * Of course, once you get *OVER* just $5, you start hitting lots and lots of better titles, but an awful lot of those are currently at *VERY*reasonable prices, far under what some of them have sold for in the past (the ones we can find any record of selling in the past!) including: 7f053 LOLITA 8 8x10 stills '62 Stanley Kubrick, sexy Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, James Mason! 7f322 10th VICTIM 5 8x10 stills '65 sexy Ursula Andress, includes two cool fashion sketches! 7f054 WIZARD OF OZ 8 8x10 stills R70 wonderful images of Judy Garland her co-stars! 7f505 PLANET OF THE APES 4 8x10 stills '68 Charlton Heston, includes two door panel images! 7f192 GOLDFINGER 6 8x10 stills '64 Sean Connery as James Bond, Gert Froebe, Harold Sakata 7f001 BYE BYE BIRDIE 15 8x10 stills '63 sexy Ann-Margret, Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh 7f892 ISLE OF FURY 2 8x10 stills '36 full-length portraits of Margaret Lindsay Donald Woods! 7f016 TORN CURTAIN 14 8x10 stills '66 Paul Newman Julie Andrews with Lila Kedrova, Hitchcock 7f357 BONNIE CLYDE 5 7.5x10 stills '67 great images of sexy Faye Dunaway, director Arthur Penn! 7f030 SPY WHO LOVED ME 10 8x10 stills '77 Roger Moore as James Bond + sexy Bond girls villains! 7f049 SHOOTIST 8 8x10 mini LCs '76 John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Ron Howard 7f055 BLADE RUNNER 7 color 8x10 stills '82 Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, Ridley Scott! 7f010 GIDGET 14 8x10 stills '59 Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren, surfing images! 7f050 STAR WARS 8 deluxe 8x10 mini LCs '77 Luke, Leia, Han, Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, George Lucas classic 7f321 EAST OF EDEN 5 color 8x10 stills '55 James Dean, Julie Harris, Richard Davalos, Elia Kazan! 7f052 DRACULA A.D. 1972 8 8x10 stills '72 Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing sexiest vampire victims! 7f014 MODESTY BLAISE 14 8x10 stills '66 Joseph Losey, sexiest female secret agent Monica Vitti! 7f623 HARLEM ON THE PRAIRIE 3 8x10 stills '37 black cowboys Mantan Moreland Herb Jeffries! 7f414 GUN CRAZY 5 8x9 stills '50 Joseph H. Lewis noir classic, John Dall sexy Peggy Cummins! 7f021 HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY SUSPENSE 13 TV 8x10 stills '84 David McCallum, Carradine more! 7f196 HELL BENT FOR LEATHER 6 8x10 stills '60 Audie Murphy with shotgun, Felicia Farr! 7f112 RAINTREE COUNTY 7 8x10 stills '57 includes cool Civil War artwork scene! 7f144 ASPHALT JUNGLE 6 8x10 stills '50 great images of Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen! 7f206 IN LIKE FLINT 6 8x10 stills '67 agent James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb in compromising position! 7f217 LAST OF THE DUANES 6 8x10 stills '41 Lynne Roberts, George E. Stone, Zane Grey! 7f222 LOGAN'S RUN 6 8x10 stills '76 best portrait of Michael York Jenny Agutter! 7f253 OUR MAN FLINT 6 8x10 stills '66 James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, James Bond spy spoof! 7f034 PREMATURE BURIAL 9 8x10 stills '62 Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Roger Corman 7f115 THAT MAN FROM RIO 7 8x10 stills '64 L'homme de Rio, suave secret agent Jean-Paul Belmondo! 7f110 PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON 7 8x10 stills '55 Charlton Heston kids in uniform! 7f135 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER 6 color English FOH LCs '60 Harryhausen classic, giant Kerwin Mathews! 7f353 BLONDE SINNER 5 8x10 stills '56 images of sexy bad girl Diana Dors, close up with gun! 7f451 LA CHAMADE 5 8x10 stills '69 Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, directed by Alain Cavalier 7f212 KISS THEM FOR ME 6 8x10 stills '57 Cary Grant Suzy Parker, plus sexy Jayne Mansfield! 7f023 MERRY ANDREW 13 8x10 stills '58 many great circus images of Danny Kaye Pier Angeli! 7f819 CAPRICE 2 8x10 stills '67 pretty Doris Day full-length on phone close up unconscious! 7f035 ALIENS 8 8x10 mini LCs '86 James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton 7f013 LORD JIM 14 8x10
[MOPO] I never knew there were snake charmers in Texas.
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Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Hollywood does still make a few good films each year...Drive We Need to Talk About Kevin were IMO pretty decent; however when I think of my favorite films over the past several years the majority are foreign... I Saw The Devil Sin Nombre The Secret In Their Eyes The Man From Nowhere ...and these are not shown in a majority of theaters. That's the biggest reason why over the past few months I've been revisiting films from the past... Le Trou Charley Varrick Failsafe Le Deuxieme Souffle League Of Gentlemen No Highway In The Sky Captain Blood A Raisin In The Sun Downfall ...great old films. From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:31:21 AM Subject: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Very good post. Even when the truth is hiding in plain sight, it's easy to look at things from an old model. Kirby On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be made. Arnold Terminator wasn't even allowed to speak English in his first film. Movies done by US producers are now made, cast and greenlit with an eye to International Box Office. Casts are often put together not just on their ability to gel, but also on the basis of what worldwide markets that can deliver. It is possible that this year's total worldwide revenue will once again hit an all time high. While producers are concerned about the drop in Domestic Box Office, they are not going to put that at risk while they have found a formula that has driven International and total Box-Office growth for the last 25 years. International press tours and local market TV appearances are important to ticket sales in a way that they never were before. More and more films are cast with an eye to the ability of some of the stars to dub their own voices and to have built in local recognition in certain marketplaces. Can you say The Expendables? Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (with more sequels to come) was originally built around a ride at Disneyland. It earned 80% of its 1 billion dollars overseas. Johnny Depp is an international star who speaks some French. Penelope Cruz was added to the cast not just because she is a fine actress, but also because she is an international star who speaks Spanish and Italian, does her own dubbing and is a smashing asset on foreign press tours. Every producer knows that Mila Kunis speaks Russian; a place where Hollywood is trying to build audiences. Viggo Mortensen does dubbing and tours in a host of languages. I could go on and on. Tintin probably won't do nearly as well in the US as it will do in Europe. Steven Spielberg and New Zealander Peter Jackson (who is one of the producers) could not have made that film as a Columbia -Paramount co-production 25 years ago. It would have been made by a European producer, probably in French, and been relegated to a small US release. Spielberg was directing his first animated film and he wanted it to have world-wide appeal. Though Frank Capra was born in Sicily, you would never know it from any film he ever made. I'm not passing judgment and not trying to be xenophobic. The U.S. film business has just changed.The French, Spanish, Italian and other film businesses generally are making better films in my opinion because telling a story is more important than how wide an International release they will be able to get. Hollywood is trying to make films where every marketplace will see someone that they can relate to onscreen and call their own. I'm not saying that means that Hollywood has to make crappy films, but that seems to be a by-product of making films as marketing deals rather than as story telling vehicles. - Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:31 AM Subject: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our
[MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
* http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp * My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). *MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK!* -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/signature/20111028Frankensteinemployeegroupphotosignature.jpg Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] WAR HORSE
One film that I did see which is good is WAR HORSE. This will join the list of really good Spielberg films. It's an old fashioned film, shot on film I believe, and it looks like it. I was having to fight back the tears at the end. It's not a seriously Great Film as in Top Ten or anything like that, but it's what you hope to go to a Hollywood movie for: craft, story, performances. Recommended. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be made. Arnold Terminator wasn't even allowed to speak English in his first film. Movies done by US producers are now made, cast and greenlit with an eye to International Box Office. Casts are often put together not just on their ability to gel, but also on the basis of what worldwide markets that can deliver. It is possible that this year's total worldwide revenue will once again hit an all time high. While producers are concerned about the drop in Domestic Box Office, they are not going to put that at risk while they have found a formula that has driven International and total Box-Office growth for the last 25 years. International press tours and local market TV appearances are important to ticket sales in a way that they never were before. More and more films are cast with an eye to the ability of some of the stars to dub their own voices and to have built in local recognition in certain marketplaces. Can you say The Expendables? Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (with more sequels to come) was originally built around a ride at Disneyland. It earned 80% of its 1 billion dollars overseas. Johnny Depp is an international star who speaks some French. Penelope Cruz was added to the cast not just because she is a fine actress, but also because she is an international star who speaks Spanish and Italian, does her own dubbing and is a smashing asset on foreign press tours. Every producer knows that Mila Kunis speaks Russian; a place where Hollywood is trying to build audiences. Viggo Mortensen does dubbing and tours in a host of languages. I could go on and on. Tintin probably won't do nearly as well in the US as it will do in Europe. Steven Spielberg and New Zealander Peter Jackson (who is one of the producers) could not have made that film as a Columbia -Paramount co-production 25 years ago. It would have been made by a European producer, probably in French, and been relegated to a small US release. Spielberg was directing his first animated film and he wanted it to have world-wide appeal. Though Frank Capra was born in Sicily, you would never know it from any film he ever made. I'm not passing judgment and not trying to be xenophobic. The U.S. film business has just changed.The French, Spanish, Italian and other film businesses generally are making better films in my opinion because telling a story is more important than how wide an International release they will be able to get. Hollywood is trying to make films where every marketplace will see someone that they can relate to onscreen and call their own. I'm not saying that means that Hollywood has to make crappy films, but that seems to be a by-product of making films as marketing deals rather than as story telling vehicles. - Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:31 AM Subject: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to:
Re: [MOPO] WAR HORSE
I would love to add to the TOP MOVIES OF THE YEAR also MELANCHOLIA by Lars Von Trier, a true masterpiece. I don't remember if it got released in the US...but if you can, check it out. Paolo 2011/12/29 Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net One film that I did see which is good is WAR HORSE. This will join the list of really good Spielberg films. It's an old fashioned film, shot on film I believe, and it looks like it. I was having to fight back the tears at the end. It's not a seriously Great Film as in Top Ten or anything like that, but it's what you hope to go to a Hollywood movie for: craft, story, performances. Recommended. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: * http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp * My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). *MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK!* -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/signature/20111028Frankensteinemployeegroupphotosignature.jpg Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] WAR HORSE
I agree Kirby we saw it Christmas day. jim From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirby McDaniel Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:29 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] WAR HORSE One film that I did see which is good is WAR HORSE. This will join the list of really good Spielberg films. It's an old fashioned film, shot on film I believe, and it looks like it. I was having to fight back the tears at the end. It's not a seriously Great Film as in Top Ten or anything like that, but it's what you hope to go to a Hollywood movie for: craft, story, performances. Recommended. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.ht ml.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/signature/20111028Frankensteinemployeegr oupphotosignature.jpg Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
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Re: [MOPO] WAR HORSE
I agree Kirby. It is what I call a 5 hankie film. I was crying at several parts throughout the film. I loved the look of it and the story line was beautiful. Happy New Year to all. Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.com Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:28:56 -0600 From: ki...@movieart.net Subject: [MOPO] WAR HORSE To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU One film that I did see which is good is WAR HORSE. This will join the list of really good Spielberg films. It's an old fashioned film, shot on film I believe, and it looks like it. I was having to fight back the tears at the end. It's not a seriously Great Film as in Top Ten or anything like that, but it's what you hope to go to a Hollywood movie for: craft, story, performances. Recommended. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] WAR HORSE
I agree - Melancholia is definitely worth watchingperformances, pacing, it's almost 2 short films in one which tie together really well. From: Paolo Zelati paolo.zel...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:49:40 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] WAR HORSE I would love to add to the TOP MOVIES OF THE YEAR also MELANCHOLIA by Lars Von Trier, a true masterpiece. I don't remember if it got released in the US...but if you can, check it out. Paolo 2011/12/29 Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net One film that I did see which is good is WAR HORSE. This will join the list of really good Spielberg films. It's an old fashioned film, shot on film I believe, and it looks like it. I was having to fight back the tears at the end. It's not a seriously Great Film as in Top Ten or anything like that, but it's what you hope to go to a Hollywood movie for: craft, story, performances. Recommended. Kirby Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE AUDIENCES WILL COME BACK! -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Philip to recapitulate, what you're saying is: the US has 300,000,000 people the world has 7,000,000,000 people the 4% of the world population the US has is becoming unimportant in comparison to the 96% of the other people on the Earth THE NERVE OF THOSE FILM COMPANIES Rich At 09:03 AM 12/29/2011, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be made. Arnold Terminator wasn't even allowed to speak English in his first film. Movies done by US producers are now made, cast and greenlit with an eye to International Box Office. Casts are often put together not just on their ability to gel, but also on the basis of what worldwide markets that can deliver. It is possible that this year's total worldwide revenue will once again hit an all time high. While producers are concerned about the drop in Domestic Box Office, they are not going to put that at risk while they have found a formula that has driven International and total Box-Office growth for the last 25 years. International press tours and local market TV appearances are important to ticket sales in a way that they never were before. More and more films are cast with an eye to the ability of some of the stars to dub their own voices and to have built in local recognition in certain marketplaces. Can you say The Expendables? Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (with more sequels to come) was originally built around a ride at Disneyland. It earned 80% of its 1 billion dollars overseas. Johnny Depp is an international star who speaks some French. Penelope Cruz was added to the cast not just because she is a fine actress, but also because she is an international star who speaks Spanish and Italian, does her own dubbing and is a smashing asset on foreign press tours. Every producer knows that Mila Kunis speaks Russian; a place where Hollywood is trying to build audiences. Viggo Mortensen does dubbing and tours in a host of languages. I could go on and on. Tintin probably won't do nearly as well in the US as it will do in Europe. Steven Spielberg and New Zealander Peter Jackson (who is one of the producers) could not have made that film as a Columbia -Paramount co-production 25 years ago. It would have been made by a European producer, probably in French, and been relegated to a small US release. Spielberg was directing his first animated film and he wanted it to have world-wide appeal. Though Frank Capra was born in Sicily, you would never know it from any film he ever made. I'm not passing judgment and not trying to be xenophobic. The U.S. film business has just changed.The French, Spanish, Italian and other film businesses generally are making better films in my opinion because telling a story is more important than how wide an International release they will be able to get. Hollywood is trying to make films where every marketplace will see someone that they can relate to onscreen and call their own. I'm not saying that means that Hollywood has to make crappy films, but that seems to be a by-product of making films as marketing deals rather than as story telling vehicles. - Original Message - From: mailto:brucehershen...@gmail.comBruce Hershenson To: mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUMoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:31 AM Subject: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csphttp://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53195051-79/billion-million-movie-2011.html.csp My thinking is that most current movies aren't very good, and that they are too expensive, too much trouble to go to, and there are a million good alternatives that are far cheaper and just as entertaining. Many current releases look like they started with a cutesy title and built a completely unnecessary movie around it (Chipwrecked, etc). MAKE GOOD MOVIES AND THE
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
Brilliant, the fourth film in a series based on a Disney ride, with more to come. And Tintin, inferior screen version of something that was near perfect in the original form, largely due to the remarkable draughtsmanship. That's lost and what they retain could essentially have been created from scratch, except yes, the already proven international brand. The anglicized Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is coming up (and presumably the sequels), which was already made in Sweden in Swedish as far back as 2009. Tested, known quantity and another franchise to reap. Saw an interview with Fincher recently, and asked where he'd place it, whether a professional job or a personal piece he'd be proud of, he indicated the former. Used to think they made crap purely because they felt it made better business sense, but remember reading Welles' theory that the suits just like to make the crap they'd like to watch themselves. But there's risk with anything new and challenging, and they're averse to that, so inevitably they'll reap lower, albeit more predictable, rewards by being conservative. On 29 Dec 2011, at 17:03, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British Music Hall performers) but because there was a worldwide fascination with what Hollywood and the US looked like. After the advent of talkies, you had the gritty speak of Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy Cagney, Cowboy-talk of the Old West, and American and British stage speech in films. Every mob in every town of every horror film, spoke mild Cockney instead of some type of Transylvania middle European accent, save for Maria Ouspenskaya. People with strong foreign accents were generally relegated to character roles as Hollywood was most focused on U.S and perhaps English speaking Box Office. Even though films were dubbed, that was generally a very secondary consideration in the casting or the nature of the film to be made. Arnold Terminator wasn't even allowed to speak English in his first film. Movies done by US producers are now made, cast and greenlit with an eye to International Box Office. Casts are often put together not just on their ability to gel, but also on the basis of what worldwide markets that can deliver. It is possible that this year's total worldwide revenue will once again hit an all time high. While producers are concerned about the drop in Domestic Box Office, they are not going to put that at risk while they have found a formula that has driven International and total Box-Office growth for the last 25 years. International press tours and local market TV appearances are important to ticket sales in a way that they never were before. More and more films are cast with an eye to the ability of some of the stars to dub their own voices and to have built in local recognition in certain marketplaces. Can you say The Expendables? Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (with more sequels to come) was originally built around a ride at Disneyland. It earned 80% of its 1 billion dollars overseas. Johnny Depp is an international star who speaks some French. Penelope Cruz was added to the cast not just because she is a fine actress, but also because she is an international star who speaks Spanish and Italian, does her own dubbing and is a smashing asset on foreign press tours. Every producer knows that Mila Kunis speaks Russian; a place where Hollywood is trying to build audiences. Viggo Mortensen does dubbing and tours in a host of languages. I could go on and on. Tintin probably won't do nearly as well in the US as it will do in Europe. Steven Spielberg and New Zealander Peter Jackson (who is one of the producers) could not have made that film as a Columbia - Paramount co-production 25 years ago. It would have been made by a European producer, probably in French, and been relegated to a small US release. Spielberg was directing his first animated film and he wanted it to have world-wide appeal. Though Frank Capra was born in Sicily, you would never know it from any film he ever made. I'm not passing judgment and not trying to be xenophobic. The U.S. film business has just changed.The French, Spanish, Italian and other film businesses generally are making better films in my opinion because telling a story is more important than how wide an International release they will be able to get. Hollywood is trying to make films where every marketplace will see someone that they can relate to onscreen and call their own. I'm not saying that means that Hollywood has to make crappy films, but that seems to be a
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
I will go see any Cohen Brothers movie. Tarantino I can wait for - even skip - on TV. I seriously did not get INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. But I'm fully prepared to admit I know nothing. The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin seriously forbids the impetus to talk, text, chat and generally be obnoxious in their theaters. They run a short piece before the film begins telling to be silent and keep your cell phones dark during the film. You get one warning. Then you're ejected. They do it, too. And it's a wonderful place to see films. Great projection. Great sound. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art wrote: Earl certainly has a major point. the theatre experience sucks in the US because the person next to you doesn't give a damn about the person next to them. I could never understand why people come to the theatre pay admission so they can chat to their friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, sister, brother or any other person while irritating everyone else. and concerning gluttonous Hollywood. yes.. just more whining so they can get congress to kanoodle with them for the most part, I don't go to the theatre anymore. Most of the films that come out I wouldn't pay $12 to see when Tarantino or Coen bros do a film, I go. The rest I wait for a dvd mostly At 11:17 AM 12/29/2011, Captain Bijou wrote: Sorry, but it's just more boo-hooing from a gluttonous Tinseltown. According to Box Office Mojo, there have been (so far) 58 feature films who world-wide box-office has exceeded $100 million dollars. In addition, three films, Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - Part 5, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have all grossed over 1 billion worldwide. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htm The majority of these films received 50% or more of their box-office from overseas ticket sales. ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / These totals are for box-office receipts only and do not include cable, pay-per-view, DVD or licensed merchandise sales. So don't be surprised to see more CGI-laden, bad super-hero and animated movies in the future. As long as they rake in the bucks globally, Hollywood will continue to make them. I have attending movies regularly since the late 1940s and I have always held the ritual of goin' to the movies dear to my heart. Of late, however, I have found myself growing increasingly reluctant to brave the crowds and traffic, pay the high cost of admission and attempt to enjoy a film while I am surrounded by a sea a tiny blue screens in the darkness while members of the audience tweet and text. BTW, I always buy the overpriced popcorn and drinks. I was an independent theatre owner in Houston during the 1970s and fully realize that the refreshments are where the theatre owners -- not the studios -- make their profit. Don't be surprised if domestic film attendance and revenues continue to drop as more Americans are able to enjoy at least a facsimile of the theatrical experience at home. We also have many more options vying for our entertainment dollars, of which, in this stagnant economy, fewer and fewer are available. The rest of the world is not as blessed and continues the theatrical experience as a major entertainment event. Once upon a time a motion picture was available only on 35mm in multiple, heavy metal reels and cans. Now that same film can be stored and watched on a tiny, thin storage disc that could get lost in your pocket. As technology increases, the need for archaic means of film distribution and exhibition -- which has remained essentially unchanged for more than a century -- grows less and less. Best, Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU www.captainbijou.com - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers Philip to recapitulate, what you're saying is: the US has 300,000,000 people the world has 7,000,000,000 people the 4% of the world population the US has is becoming unimportant in comparison to the 96% of the other people on the Earth THE NERVE OF THOSE FILM COMPANIES Rich At 09:03 AM 12/29/2011, Phillip W. Ayling wrote: Bruce, The article is interesting and I agree with your comments as well. I also want to offer some additional thoughts. Hollywood (whatever that is) once focused only on domestic Box Office. In the early days of cinema - while movies were made in many places - US cinema got a boost, not only because of talent here (including many British
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin seriously forbids the impetus to talk, text, chat and generally be obnoxious in their theaters. They run a short piece before the film begins telling to be silent and keep your cell phones dark during the film. You get one warning. Then you're ejected. They do it, too. And it's a wonderful place to see films. Great projection. Great sound. they're a small theatre run by the owners corporate run theatres won't spend the money on a chat monitor who goes from one screen to another to tell people to shut up because A) the corporations don't want to spend the money on such an employee and B) because they don't want to send a paying customer on their way, no matter what kind of asshole they are Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
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Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
I saw the Muppet Movie and Rise of the Planet of the Apes and those were wonderful films. TV is the great competitor especially with large screens and great sound. That coupled with iTunes and Netflix it's getting tougher to get butts in the seats. Just saw an article how the biggest audiences were for sequels. Tough in many ways. Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: I will go see any Cohen Brothers movie. Tarantino I can wait for - even skip - on TV. I seriously did not get INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. But I'm fully prepared to admit I know nothing. The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin seriously forbids the impetus to talk, text, chat and generally be obnoxious in their theaters. They run a short piece before the film begins telling to be silent and keep your cell phones dark during the film. You get one warning. Then you're ejected. They do it, too. And it's a wonderful place to see films. Great projection. Great sound. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art wrote: Earl certainly has a major point. the theatre experience sucks in the US because the person next to you doesn't give a damn about the person next to them. I could never understand why people come to the theatre pay admission so they can chat to their friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, sister, brother or any other person while irritating everyone else. and concerning gluttonous Hollywood. yes.. just more whining so they can get congress to kanoodle with them for the most part, I don't go to the theatre anymore. Most of the films that come out I wouldn't pay $12 to see when Tarantino or Coen bros do a film, I go. The rest I wait for a dvd mostly At 11:17 AM 12/29/2011, Captain Bijou wrote: Sorry, but it's just more boo-hooing from a gluttonous Tinseltown. According to Box Office Mojo, there have been (so far) 58 feature films who world-wide box-office has exceeded $100 million dollars. In addition, three films, Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - Part 5, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have all grossed over 1 billion worldwide. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htm The majority of these films received 50% or more of their box-office from overseas ticket sales. ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / These totals are for box-office receipts only and do not include cable, pay-per-view, DVD or licensed merchandise sales. So don't be surprised to see more CGI-laden, bad super-hero and animated movies in the future. As long as they rake in the bucks globally, Hollywood will continue to make them. I have attending movies regularly since the late 1940s and I have always held the ritual of goin' to the movies dear to my heart. Of late, however, I have found myself growing increasingly reluctant to brave the crowds and traffic, pay the high cost of admission and attempt to enjoy a film while I am surrounded by a sea a tiny blue screens in the darkness while members of the audience tweet and text. BTW, I always buy the overpriced popcorn and drinks. I was an independent theatre owner in Houston during the 1970s and fully realize that the refreshments are where the theatre owners -- not the studios -- make their profit. Don't be surprised if domestic film attendance and revenues continue to drop as more Americans are able to enjoy at least a facsimile of the theatrical experience at home. We also have many more options vying for our entertainment dollars, of which, in this stagnant economy, fewer and fewer are available. The rest of the world is not as blessed and continues the theatrical experience as a major entertainment event. Once upon a time a motion picture was available only on 35mm in multiple, heavy metal reels and cans. Now that same film can be stored and watched on a tiny, thin storage disc that could get lost in your pocket. As technology increases, the need for archaic means of film distribution and exhibition -- which has remained essentially unchanged for more than a century -- grows less and less. Best, Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU www.captainbijou.com - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers Philip to recapitulate, what you're saying is: the US has 300,000,000 people the world has 7,000,000,000 people the 4% of the world population the US has is becoming unimportant in comparison to the 96% of the other people on the
Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers
I think the exhibitors could fix the problem easy the Movie experience works best by being a social connection of shared community, also is the best place to take a date and then dinner... and also its great to experience a film on a mega Big scrren withe the sound at concert level.. the problem lies in the costs... the Model ofconcessions and al is Old.. and its outdated... In a day where people have dollar store mentality as a reference point, Buying 5.00 Popcorn and 4.00 cokes does not get it especially with a family.. the home theatre makes sense as you can watch several films and have all the popcorn you want...and be comfortable, and no noisy patrons. How I would fix it... Is to offer a special Date price that included popcorn and 2 drinks and I would offer a Movie Club to stimulate multiple Movie watching... also special days for elderly.. like dark days like tues whee they could see a featureand getpopcorn for 5.00 themovie club could be a prepaid card that could be yoked with local restraunts annd such to stimulate sales atother vendors,, I have had this idea for years,, also ther could be free days for non profit groups to uses the theatres to raise funds for events and charitys... the idea is all this would revive the interest in seeing exhibited movies, It would take the help of the studios to offer special incentives on the film bookings... this all could be easy promoted as events on social media,,, 'I would offer passes for special groups at reduced prices. then I would do a local phone and mailer offering all the new deals to stimulate people to return to the theatres.. there still is no better way to see a film they on the BIG screen in imho Original Message From: fly...@pacbell.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT: Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:11:29 -0800 I saw the Muppet Movie and Rise of the Planet of the Apes and those were wonderful films. TV is the great competitor especially with large screens and great sound. That coupled with iTunes and Netflix it's getting tougher to get butts in the seats. Just saw an article how the biggest audiences were for sequels. Tough in many ways. Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: I will go see any Cohen Brothers movie. Tarantino I can wait for - even skip - on TV. I seriously did not get INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. But I'm fully prepared to admit I know nothing. The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin seriously forbids the impetus to talk, text, chat and generally be obnoxious in their theaters. They run a short piece before the film begins telling to be silent and keep your cell phones dark during the film. You get one warning. Then you're ejected. They do it, too. And it's a wonderful place to see films. Great projection. Great sound. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 On Dec 29, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art wrote: Earl certainly has a major point. the theatre experience sucks in the US because the person next to you doesn't give a damn about the person next to them. I could never understand why people come to the theatre pay admission so they can chat to their friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, sister, brother or any other person while irritating everyone else. and concerning gluttonous Hollywood. yes.. just more whining so they can get congress to kanoodle with them for the most part, I don't go to the theatre anymore. Most of the films that come out I wouldn't pay $12 to see when Tarantino or Coen bros do a film, I go. The rest I wait for a dvd mostly At 11:17 AM 12/29/2011, Captain Bijou wrote: Sorry, but it's just more boo-hooing from a gluttonous Tinseltown. According to Box Office Mojo, there have been (so far) 58 feature films who world-wide box-office has exceeded $100 million dollars. In addition, three films, Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - Part 5, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have all grossed over 1 billion worldwide. http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwideyr=2011p=.htm The majority of these films received 50% or more of their box-office from overseas ticket sales. ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / These totals are for box-office receipts only and do not include cable, pay-per-view, DVD or licensed merchandise sales. So don't be surprised to see more CGI-laden, bad super-hero and animated movies in the future. As long as they rake in the bucks globally, Hollywood will continue to make them. I have attending movies regularly since the late 1940s and I have always held the ritual of goin' to the movies dear to my heart. Of late, however, I have found myself growing
Re: [MOPO] I never knew there were snake charmers in Texas.
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[MOPO] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY STARCHILD FIRST PRINTING
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=370572778131 Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY STARCHILD FIRST PRINTING
The pricing could be considered aggressive but the fact that it is date 1968 makes it very rare indeed. Hence, worth plenty of moolah! Channing Thomson On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Kirby McDaniel wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=370572778131 Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net mobile 512 589 5112 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
