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    The Disney Thread | Iger will be with us until 2026

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    Any profits they make next year are basically gonna cover this year's losses, not including any losses from that year. They dug themselves into a financial hole

    15 hours ago, MovieMan89 said:

    Absolutely mind boggling how bad this is, and that’s before we get to yet another epic disaster Wish looks about to be. For as much as Disney’s 2019 was unprecedented for a studio’s success, Disney’s 2023 certainly has to be unprecedented in the opposite direction 

     

    Christmas Weekend Thread | Avatar 95.6m, PiB 20.05m, Babylon 4.85m 4 days

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    On 12/23/2022 at 1:18 PM, AJG said:

    LOOOOOL NepoBaby Prime has spoken

     

    Edit: whilst I’m still on this - we need to be honest with Denzel Washington about his son. He ain’t got it.

     

     

     

     

    She even said back in 2019 that she got the role in "Halloween," probably because of her parents' fame... 

     

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/jamie-lee-curtis-has-never-worked-hard-a-day-in-her-life

     

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    Did you have a feeling when making “Halloween” that it was the thing it would become?

    Nothing. All I can tell you is that my [character’s] name was on every page of the script, and that it was thrilling to actually create something as a character.

     

    Do you know why you got the job?

    I auditioned many, many, many times. And then it was between me and one other woman, whose name I know but I will never say publicly. I’m sure the fact that I was Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis’s daughter, and that my mother had been in “Psycho”—if you’re going to choose between this one and this one, choose the one whose mother was in “Psycho,” because it will get some press for you. I’m never going to pretend that I just got that on my own, like I’m just a little girl from nowhere getting it. Clearly, I had a leg up.

     

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    Academy Awards adding a "Best Popular Film" category. Good or bad idea? Academy walks it back, won't be presented this year

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    2 minutes ago, Barnack said:

    If would go to be fully deregulated, with Disney owning 50% or so of the box office,

     

    If they would be ready to take an short term hit by refusing every theater to play their movies (while offering good money to buy them out if they went), they could own most of them rapidly I would imagine, then give terrible exhibition deal to everyone else.

    when I saw this story I did some googling, and I think Disney made more in profit last year than Cinemark's total market cap. or at least pretty close. if (and this is a big if) it's ever overturned, then yeah I imagine Disney could consolidate pretty quickly.

    Classic Conversation Thread

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    hey so uhhhh did we talk about this http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-doj-paramount-decrees-20180802-story.html

     

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    In a surprise move that could have major implications for Hollywood, the U.S. Department of Justice is scrutinizing antitrust rules that for decades have governed the way movie studios do business with theaters.

    The Justice Department on Thursday said it has opened a review of the so-called Paramount consent decrees, which have regulated the ways studios distribute films to theaters for the last 70 years.

    The decrees, a series of settlements entered between 1948 and 1952, fundamentally altered the way the movie industry worked by forcing studios to end their ownership of theater chains, thereby breaking up Hollywood’s monopoly on production, distribution and exhibition.

    Those settlements followed a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices found the studios had illegally conspired to fix prices and monopolize the distribution and theatrical markets.

     

    The decrees banned multiple studio practices that were found to be anti-competitive. Those included “block booking,” in which studios leveraged their most popular movies to boost the box-office receipts for their worst films, and the setting of minimum prices for movie tickets.

    The review, the department said, is part of a broader deregulation initiative to kill old antitrust judgments it says are outdated.

     

     

    Academy Awards adding a "Best Popular Film" category. Good or bad idea? Academy walks it back, won't be presented this year

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    Posted · Edited by franfar

     

    1 minute ago, Barnack said:

    Would it not be still clearly illegal for them to have a relevant amount of theater ?

     

    That said, now that studio are own by people that own TV channel and streaming service (that are not yet under some syndication type of law to help competition), that little old United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. antitrust law could feel outdated.

    http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-doj-paramount-decrees-20180802-story.html

     

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    The decrees banned multiple studio practices that were found to be anti-competitive. Those included “block booking,” in which studios leveraged their most popular movies to boost the box-office receipts for their worst films, and the setting of minimum prices for movie tickets.

    The review, the department said, is part of a broader deregulation initiative to kill old antitrust judgments it says are outdated.

    “The Paramount Decrees have been on the books with no sunset provisions since 1949,” the Justice Department’s antitrust chief Makan Delrahim said in a statement. “Much has changed in the motion picture industry since that time. It is high time that these and other legacy judgments are examined to determine whether they still serve to protect competition.”

    The Justice Department cited numerous changes in the motion picture business.

    For now yeah, it would be illegal. But if the SCOTUS case is overturned, then.... 

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