Movies Doomed!
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
What do you think?
Before anyone takes McCallum’s comments that seriously, you have to look at the context in which they were given. I think McCallum’s clutching at straws to explain the diminishing financial returns of the [i]Star Wars[/i] franchise, and attempting to come up with excuses as to why there was little repeat business for [i]Attack of the Clones[/i]. The statements quoted were all said in the context of why [i]AOTC[/i] did relatively poorly at the box office, when compared with other films in the [i]SW[/i] series, and it was obvious in the interview that he was just trying to “spin” the film’s performance into some condemnation of the home video market. Both [i]Spider-Man[/i] and [i]Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring[/i] had incredible theatrical runs, and had significant repeat business (meaning that the box office take stayed consistently good week after week, implying that people were seeing the films more than once after the “target audience” caught them opening night, in addition to people just catching up with the films). This seems to go completely against the theory that McCallum advances.
I think that the home video market is definitely affecting the theatrical market in some ways, but nowhere nearly as drastically as McCallum is claiming.
–Aleck
[ 18-11-2002: Message edited by: Aleck ]