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Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed January 05, 2022 6:22 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm Posts: 12077
Ok well this is sort of topic I can get interested in for 5 mins and then I don't care anymore so when you post the 2022 numbers we'll revisit for another 5 mins.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Thu January 06, 2022 10:30 pm
The Master
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46411 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Remember in Grosse Point Blank when John cusack is explaining to Minnie driver how he got into the assassin game, and he says he took a test when he went to join the service and he “fit a certain psychological profile”? I’ve really always wanted to take that test; I feel like I’d do pretty good on it.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri January 14, 2022 7:59 pm
The Master
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 46411 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
tragabigzanda wrote:
bada wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
if IP are so fucking important, you are killing a potentially big one right now. They spent a lot of money trying to make an event film and they are killing it by releasing it on streaming the very same day. Again, do it, but leave it on the theatres and Imax alone for 20 days, one month.
IP is a feature of their product; it drives the consumer benefit of choice. Warner is in a choice war with Netflix, Disney, etc.
Title-to-title box office battles are a thing of the past. Which platform offers the greatest number of high quality choices? How can they get new customers in the door to sample their buffet? By offering an exclusive viewing of a major motion picture that will drive online and dinner table discussion during the holiday season.
Vindicated!
HBO Max and HBO Ended 2021 With 73.8M Global Subscribers, Beating Company Forecast
The WarnerMedia streamer exceeded management's target range with a fourth-quarter content slate including 'Succession,' 'Dune' and 'Sex and the City' sequel series 'And Just Like That.'
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WarnerMedia’a streaming service HBO Max and HBO ended 2021 with about 73.8 million subscribers, exceeding management’s forecast, AT&T said on Wednesday.
The update from the telecom giant, in a regulatory filing before the stock market open, came before a session with AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches at the Citi AppsEconomy Conference.[…]
It cited “strong international and ad-supported subscriber growth,” which offset a user hit related to a strategic decision to remove the HBO subscription option from Amazon Prime Channels. […] AT&T, led by CEO John Stankey, had said in March that HBO Max and HBO would reach between 120 million and 150 million on a combined basis by the end of 2025, up from a previous forecast of between 75 million and 90 million.
Wednesday’s update before Desroches’ appearance also said that AT&T recorded 3.2 million postpaid phone net user additions in 2021, its highest annual net adds figure “in more than a decade, as the company continues to benefit from strong network performance and its disciplined and consistent go-to-market strategy.”
This is like rounding the first lap of a mile race in first place and claiming victory. They mortgaged their future for a short term bump to save some suits their jobs. Congrats.
How do you figure? They effectively did two things here:
1. Sent a clear message to the marketplace that they will continue to be a premier location for top-tier day-and-date streaming content, and
2. They don't need Amazon to meet their subscription targets.
Considering their merger with ATT and the real likelihood that many Amazon Prime subscribers will be using their infrastructure to watch Prime content, this is a pretty successful power play, IMO
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri January 28, 2022 12:16 am
NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32050 Location: Buenos Aires
Down here in Latin America, every English-language movie in the theater is subtitled in Spanish. For both spoken and on-screen text. This makes sense. I find it a bit annoying due to how the subtitles clutter up the screen, but over many years I've been able to train myself to ignore them.
Over the last couple years, though, film localizers have started to translate the text ON SCREEN. So if a character is texting on his phone, the phone conversation will be shown in Spanish (as opposed to the original English, with subtitles in the bottom third as with spoken dialogue). I hate this. Seems completely unnecessary and fully takes me out of the immersion.
The first scene in the new Scream movie, for example, features a long text conversation between two characters, and the text on the phone screen was in Spanish while the character spoke out loud in English. I don't like this trend.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat January 29, 2022 8:46 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10173 Location: in the air tonight
One thing I love about old movies is when they're flabbergasted by things that are beyond normal now. I don't mean like technologies, because of course computers are cool in 1960, and phones are confusing in 1936. I mean kebabs, and margaritas. In Panic in the Streets (1950), a break in the case comes when they learn the suspect likes kebabs. One cop has no idea what that is, and a second has to sheepishly admit that because his beat goes through the Greek side of town, not only does he know what they are, but he's eaten them and kind of likes them. In Frenzy (1972), a housewife with a penchant for weird, fancy cooking (much to the chagrin of her meat-and-potatoes detective husband) offers her guest a "margarita", and lists its ingredients. It's obvious no one has ever heard of the thing. Two people taste it, and both are disgusted. What a world, you know
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon January 31, 2022 6:35 pm
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:45 pm Posts: 23891 Location: almost in canada
not sure if any of this has been posted recently but i just photos of bridget fonda...a long time crush of mine way back in the day..here she is today at age 58
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