JRPC wrote:Dinostar77 wrote:Wonder Women getting the highest review scores for a comic book movie since the Dark Knight. Have DC finally nailed with a JLA character? Booked to go see it on Friday.
That's simply untrue.
Not even close.
poprock wrote:Box office takings for modern cinema are skewed by the holders of unlimited cards. Those thousands upon thousands of people who go see any old shite at the pictures because ‘it’s free innit’. Those inflated box office figures feed back into the film studios and encourage them to keep making crap. At least, that’s my theory.
trippy wrote:Most of my favourite films come from the 1970s so I could happily agree that there has been a decline in the mainstream since then and that there's a pace, intelligence and bravery with regard to new ideas, that seems lacking today. But time has also erased from memory most of the shite that was produced in that decade.
Cosby wrote:That may be part of it but from a previous job at UGC (now Cineworld), I recall that each unlimited transaction gets processed as a much lower priced ticket when compared with your average adult ticket as this is where the distributor's cut of the takings comes from. It was at that point about two thirds less so while it might boost takings it's not by the normal amount so probably not quite as visible as you might expect. In the early days a few distributors threatened to boycott UGC as they were concerned it would result in lower earnings but obviously not as much as pulling your films from all those cinemas altogether. Possibly a pointless story but I always like when this otherwise useless information becomes relevant.poprock wrote:Box office takings for modern cinema are skewed by the holders of unlimited cards. Those thousands upon thousands of people who go see any old shite at the pictures because ‘it’s free innit’. Those inflated box office figures feed back into the film studios and encourage them to keep making crap. At least, that’s my theory.
Cosby wrote:… each unlimited transaction gets processed as a much lower priced ticket when compared with your average adult ticket as this is where the distributor's cut of the takings comes from.
trippy wrote:@davy I think a fair bit of that is nostalgia talking. There are still films that the whole family go to see, and while some of them are shite (go fuck yourself, Lego Movie) some of them always were. And there are plenty of games friends and family play together. Playing Zelda with my daughter is one of our favourite things. When I was her age I played Asteroids, Space Invaders, Frogger, Pitfall 2, etc. but the magical feeling I got from those games was no stronger than the one she gets from Zelda. In fact, I'd argue that Zelda is far more captivating, a beautiful world with a strong cast of characters. It's always a case of what resonates with you personally and when you're younger things can be far more enchanting. If you compare your all-time favourite things with the current mainstream, you'll find things lacking but there has always been a lot of junk in films, tv, games and books. (I'm not having a go at you, I just think quality still bobs around in the sea of trash, in much the same way it always has)
poprock wrote:That’s really interesting. I assume that means the distributor (and thus the studio etc, further up the line) makes the same amount of money from each seat filled as they would on any ticket price. It’s the cinema who takes the hit, their profit theoretically coming from the punter’s subscription. Is that right? Or did the distributor actually earn less?
mistercrayon wrote:The vue is four pounds a ticket too
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