Sith: Strong sales...

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17738,00.html

So LucasFilm and Fox are claiming extremely strong sales of SITH DVD.
IIRC, they claimed that pirated DVDs HURT theatrical Box Office. Are
they gonna blame the strong sales on the pirated DVDs...? The US DVD
rip has been available for several weeks already...

Morelikely they'll claim that without piracy it would've made $500M in
DVD sales or some nonsense like that...

-goro-

Goro

On 9 Nov 2005 21:39:04 -0800, "Goro" <> wrote:

>http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17738,00.html
>
>So LucasFilm and Fox are claiming extremely strong sales of SITH DVD.
>IIRC, they claimed that pirated DVDs HURT theatrical Box Office. Are
>they gonna blame the strong sales on the pirated DVDs...? The US DVD
>rip has been available for several weeks already...

Screener was ripped and released almost a week before the movie came
out. Yet the movie still made more than Phantom Meanace or Clone
Wars.

>Morelikely they'll claim that without piracy it would've made $500M in
>DVD sales or some nonsense like that...

Doubtful. Maybe some loss in sale but not $500M.
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Impmon

"Goro" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17738,00.html
>
> So LucasFilm and Fox are claiming extremely strong sales of SITH DVD.
> IIRC, they claimed that pirated DVDs HURT theatrical Box Office. Are
> they gonna blame the strong sales on the pirated DVDs...? The US DVD
> rip has been available for several weeks already...
>
> Morelikely they'll claim that without piracy it would've made $500M in
> DVD sales or some nonsense like that...
>

I'm sure it'd do even better if it was any good!

> -goro-
>

Simon

Impmon wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2005 21:39:04 -0800, "Goro" <> wrote:
>
>
>>http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17738,00.html
>>
>>So LucasFilm and Fox are claiming extremely strong sales of SITH DVD.
>>IIRC, they claimed that pirated DVDs HURT theatrical Box Office.

If Lucas sincerely cared about the issue of pirated DVDs, he'd release a
DVD version of the original, unaltered first trilogy so fans wouldn't
have to rely on bootlegs to get them.

But I guess in that case, he doesn't care that the pirates are getting
his money.

Sue

Impmon wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2005 21:39:04 -0800, "Goro" <> wrote:
>
> >http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17738,00.html
> >
> >So LucasFilm and Fox are claiming extremely strong sales of SITH DVD.
> >IIRC, they claimed that pirated DVDs HURT theatrical Box Office. Are
> >they gonna blame the strong sales on the pirated DVDs...? The US DVD
> >rip has been available for several weeks already...
>
> Screener was ripped and released almost a week before the movie came
> out. Yet the movie still made more than Phantom Meanace or Clone
> Wars.
>
> >Morelikely they'll claim that without piracy it would've made $500M in
> >DVD sales or some nonsense like that...
>
> Doubtful. Maybe some loss in sale but not $500M.

Dude, reality and MPAA-style claims of lost sales rarely match. Have
you seen the latest claims for lost revenue?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/...ovie_downloads

"llegal downloading costs the movie industry an estimated $5.4 billion
a year, she said"

-goro-

Goro

"Screener was ripped and released almost a week before the movie came
out. Yet the movie still made more than Phantom Meanace or Clone
Wars. "

Pantsless Menace: $431,088,301
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars.htm

Attack of the Pants: $302,191,252
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars2.htm

Revenge of the Pants: $380,270,577
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars3.htm

More than Clones, less than Phantom.

- Jordan

Jordan