MPAA The Boxoffice Bluffers

[infringer]

I just scoped out the IMDB just for kicks to see what is what here are the results...

Rank Title USA Box Office
1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
8. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893
9. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943
10. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898
12. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367


Funny that 8 of the top 12 box office hits come from the era of P2P phenomena...

Look at there release dates amazing how our government is even buying into there story of pity and wooo's me type antics.

Is the government really that stupid? There is more money being made since the birth of big filesharing then there has been made since before the filesharing era. Leads me to believe as the popular thing to do is to not only be a movie thief but a movie consumer as well... I think all this legal battleing has a lot of things that just dont fit the bill of a corperation loosing business to P2P something aint right here.

source
http://us.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross

MPAA "We lost so much money at the boxoffice and on royalties"

/me scratches his head and says "I think we all learned how to add in gradeschool"

MPAA "The Boxoffice Bluffers"

-infringer-

[nukehella]

Is the government really that stupid?

-infringer-

Affirmative on that one.

[gelo]

Funny that 8 of the top 12 box office hits come from the era of P2P phenomena...

wow. that IS funny. strange funny.

[notbob]

i'd say 7

titanic was in the internet era, but before the "napster" era (*i use napster as an example of public p2p, though movies weren't easily traded until probably 2000, with more widespread broadband access making it 6, but i remember seeing something purported to be episode 1 on winmx back then, though it would have taken 8 days to get it)

[fireforce555]

And I remember hearing stories when many of those films came out of how they were "being pirated on a major level" and would suffer for it. Yeah, looks like they nearly lost the farm there LOL

[tackdaddy]

they just want to make as much money possible.the more sites they shutdown might make them a few extra million.the actors are overpaid and the movies get more expensive every year.it really sucks to get excited about a movie and go to see it and it sucks ass,a waste of 5-10 bucks.

[infringer]

i'd say 7

titanic was in the internet era, but before the "napster" era (*i use napster as an example of public p2p, though movies weren't easily traded until probably 2000, with more widespread broadband access making it 6, but i remember seeing something purported to be episode 1 on winmx back then, though it would have taken 8 days to get it)

Heck as I recall IMESH users downloading films during the napster era in 99' many in ASF not as good of quality and not as heavy but there were many sources for the IMESH movies back in the days IMESH has been around nearly as long as napster or shortly after. Used to be very very buggy though ...



3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036 (1)

5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444 (2)

6. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375 (3)


7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252 (4)

8. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893 (5)

9. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943 (6)

11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898 (7)

12. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367 (8)

But for good measure I suppose 4th quarter 99 1st quarter 2000 is when the movies started to really roll through.

Either way when over 50% of your top boxoffice hits are from the past five years considered to be the big loss years by the MPAA and the era of piracy that is saying something about piracy's true effect and what it is in my opinon word of mouth advertisement the best forum of advertisement there is really when your good friend with similar intrests as yourself says man you gotta see this movie you really take to it even more so then the adds because the adds always beef up every film.

Alaxander a good example a beefed up advertisement chalked full of action then you see the movie and it is bloated with loads and loads of lulaby type dialouge.

The MPAA should in fact invest there money in having someone else handle there expense accounts cause according to them statistics if there loosing money at all its an in house loss someone is laundering within it's organization ... I'd like to see what happens as time rolls forward through the filesharing age at the boxoffice.

-infringer-

[Siskabush]

Im suprised that they are still raking in massive profits with all the crappy trilogies that are being released. For crying out loud, they make every god damn movie a trilogy!

Like "Legally blonde 3". Im suprised people pay good money for filler crap (They are adopting the same techniques as the record industry.)

Man, its just a matter of time before "Gigli 2" comes out.

[freeloader767]

I just scoped out the IMDB just for kicks to see what is what here are the results...

Rank Title USA Box Office
1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665
3. Shrek 2 (2004) $436,471,036
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459
5. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444
6. Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) $377,019,252
8. Spider-Man 2 (2004) $373,377,893
9. The Passion of the Christ (2004) $370,270,943
10. Jurassic Park (1993) $356,784,000
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) $340,478,898
12. Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367


Funny that 8 of the top 12 box office hits come from the era of P2P phenomena...

Look at there release dates amazing how our government is even buying into there story of pity and wooo's me type antics.

Is the government really that stupid? There is more money being made since the birth of big filesharing then there has been made since before the filesharing era. Leads me to believe as the popular thing to do is to not only be a movie thief but a movie consumer as well... I think all this legal battleing has a lot of things that just dont fit the bill of a corperation loosing business to P2P something aint right here.

I was going to play devils advocate in this thread the only problem is that its fucking impossible! The mpaa would try to claim the dollars devalued and cite inflation......Of course there not mentioning the outrageous ticket prices......This whole thing is reminiscent of Kenneth Leys(Enron shithead)day in court where he claimed that his own family was severly affected by Enrons collapse....The jerk went on to say that his family only has 20 million left in assets........there wasnt a dry eye in the house :mellow Now Glickman is trying to achieve global empathy for the corporations he represents.........Just isnt gonna happen. Furthermore, Glickman fails to point out all the B movie rental sales at blockbuster and other video store vendors........Yea he conveniently left that out. These are the type of sales that p2p is damn sure not affecting because WE dont even know most of these films exist until we take a walk around blockbuster. These films are just not available in the p2p market.............

source
http://us.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross

MPAA "We lost so much money at the boxoffice and on royalties"

/me scratches his head and says "I think we all learned how to add in gradeschool"

MPAA "The Boxoffice Bluffers"

-infringer-

I suppose the mpaa hired Arthur Anderson to do there accounting........what was it Glickman claimed? 3.5 Billion????????????? gimme a fuckin break