[IP] It appears the movie business _isn't_ in a slump after all
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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 4, 2005 8:59:29 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: It appears the movie business _isn't_ in a slump after all
Dave, this screenwriter says the movie business isn't in a slump at
all, and quotes the numbers to prove it:
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2005/the-sky-is-not-falling . As he
puts it, “Ticket sales lag behind 2004’s numbers by only 6%, with
attendance off 8.7%...Is there really an industry crisis if just one
movie would eliminate it?" Check out the graph in the article to see
how close this year tracked last year's. And a comment on the blog
suggests that last year was atypically _good._.
Commentary in The Register lays blame for the chicken-little cries on
some usual and unusual suspects:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/04/hollywood_crisis_no_crisis/
Still I agree with other IP letters on the subject that it's not
worth heading to the local MUX.
regards
-d
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