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  • howard lindzon One year ago

    1.795 thumbs up on the stock

    no position

    • maximo zeledon One year ago

      Short!!!! Talk about a dying sector.

      • Andy Swan One year ago

        Adam on the right?

        First as the flashee in the bar, now this. Something tells me Adam has a fame-itch to scratch. :)

        • Howard Lindzon One year ago

          dont know middle dude, but roman left and adam right for sure :)

          • Rob Theriot One year ago

            down 6 pennies for the day already - but nice play on mst 2000 / or was it 3000 - it’s been a while

            • JR One year ago

              Have you seen the numbers on the latest movies? The only movie doing well is about talking rats! This is a slowly dying business.

              • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                it’s not dying, definately diluted, but not dying.

                • Richard One year ago

                  Think globally Max, small villages on the Siberian Tundra, theater works where people congregate. Now do you see why Coke is using Polar bears in their commercials.

                  • aaron nauta One year ago

                    Lets all go to the lobby Haha

                    • Fresh Bread One year ago

                      The hilarious John Pieza in the middle. He certainly knows what “theater oriented” is all about.

                      • maximo zeledon One year ago

                        Richard,

                        It works to some degree, in Japan, Korea and some parts of Western Europe. I worked at Sony Pictures International/Latin America and I can tell with certainty that Sony hardly makes any money in movie theatre distribution in Latin America, operating at a loss in some markets just to keep the brand name presence. Now, television distribution is another story in the so called third world where Sony does make a lot of money via licensing. TV and DVDs are huge. The reasons places like Latin America and Siberia are not scalable in the context of movie houses is because once you tap the 3%-5% of the population who do have the money to go to the movies you no longer have room to grow after that. Do I eat or go see Arnold blow up some really evil Colombian drug lords? But wait, Paquito down the street got himself a copy and he is screening it for all his compadres at his mom’s place. Let’s buy some coca colas and some empanadas.

                        TV and DVD sales is what is saving the studios both at home and abroad. The fact is $200 million dollar blockbusters are not paying off anymore and some movie studios are beginning to apply a long-tail economic model. Commercially successful movies like Spiderman end up paying for every Sony flop diminishing revenues significantly. Say hello to co-productions and CGI!

                        Also, movie houses are a pain in the ass for studios and they are working hard to replace them altogether. Studios want to maximize profit and they hate to share it with movie houses which make tons of money from $20 cokes and popcorn.

                        The future survival of movies is in digital distribution and if the movies houses want to stay alive a bit longer they better upgrade to digital projectors instead of plastering ads in the urinals. Those are crazy marketing scheme, but the advertising community loves this idea and that’s why they are one level above prostitution.

                        • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                          Long maximo

                          nice job my man.

                          • Richard One year ago

                            You’re right Max, theater is dead, replaced by the intravenous iPod.

                            • ashwin One year ago

                              excellent mystery science theater 3000 reference

                              • maximo zeledon One year ago

                                Indeed! I watched a entire movie on my ipod for the first time and it wasn’t a bad experience. Sucked all my juice though.

                                • StockRake One year ago

                                  No fabricated robot hat :D

                                  • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                                    just saw die hard…cant replace the big screen for that. sooooory :)

                                    even though it sucked

                                    • Dr. UNIX One year ago

                                      When I saw this, I kept thinking of Rocky Horror Picture Show and the audience participation. Remember the part where Susan Saranden’s bra was close enough to the bottom of the screen so audience members could jump up and make hand gestures.

                                      …oh boy, did I date myself just now.

                                      • Richard One year ago

                                        Now that would be interesting, a musical Wallstrip.

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