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I think what will really start to hurt theater box office revenues is when 1080p-format high-definition DVD's and 1080p projection TV's become widely available by 2010. Given what I've seen of the Mitsubishi 1080p demo on their 62" WD-62827 model, it's so sharp that you can clearly the minute...

Patrick Sun, you wrote: But none of these films are going to get a potentially big audience that King Kong will get. It appears from the Box Office Mojo data that my guesses on why King Kong started slowly aren't so far-fetched. With the final exams in most colleges now finished and with...

Kyle_D, you wrote: I think because The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King had such huge anticipation for its release, by definition it would do huge business on opening day anyway. My suggestion about the bad weather depressing movie attendence is not far from the truth--over the...

Folks, I'm surprised people aren't listing the reasons why King Kong started so slowly. I can cite three resaons: 1. This is finals week for most colleges across the USA, so the expected 18-34 audience that will be the prime audience for this movie will be way lower than normal because...

I've read that if you subtract the unprecedented effect of The Passion of the Christ last year the box office take this year would actually be 3% ahead of last year. But then, last summer was kind of strange given not only the success of PotC, but you had the huge box office bump-ups in sales...

In regards to poor sales of the Shrek 2 DVD: I think sales of the DVD was strongly hurt by the fact you couldn't avoid the advertisements for "Shark Tale" and "Madagascar" when you first play the DVD. :thumbsdown: Note that sales of Disney DVD's have continued to be strong, mostly because one...

I remember reading in USA Today that one big reason why the box office this year has been behind last year was this unusual factor: the enormous success of The Passion of the Christ, plus the huge success of Shrek 2 from the middle of May 2004 on. I think if we subtracted out the effect of...

I think people are just seeing The Longest Yard just for the curiosity factor. But the generally mixed reviews may in the end mean the movie will make less money this weekend than Revenge of the Sith and Madagascar. :) I think the first movie that will seriously threaten ROTS is Cinderella...

What I find interesting is that the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly had a long feature article in their main News section about why the box office is doing so poorly this year. Among the factors they blame are: 1. The rapid drop in the price of home theater systems, which has...