“Tom” wrote:As for me and my house, I plan to make a special trip to Panguitch tomorrow night with my soulmate and helpmeet to see Witnesses while feasting on the Gem’s famous salmon tacos (blackened salmon gently laid on a warm flour tortilla, blanketed with generous helpings of pickled onions and shredded cabbage, and crowned with a drizzling of Utah’s very best fry sauce), and finishing off several bottles of caffeine- and alcohol-free rhubarb Fresca. Life is good.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:21 am.... I had an irresistible urge to troll my beautiful better half by buying two tickets to Witnesses, but then I remembered how Mr. Peterson has treated this forum, years of badmouthing the trailer park, refusing to practice his priestcraft here on the Celestial forum, defending the flanks of a $100B+ corporation, and allowing his sycophants to harangue good-faith posters in the comments section of his vanity blog. Sadly, I watched the Black Widow kill a bunch of people, instead....
Somehow, I am getting the sense that in this case "sadly" means "happily".... https://stephenfollows.com/how-a-cinema ... stributed/On the face of it, the first question seems simple: how is box office ticket income divided? However, it has proved an ongoing controversy, with some filmmakers claiming that cinemas keep most of it and some cinema staff claiming that they hand almost all of it over to filmmakers. I have heard people on both sides wax lyrical about how they have the raw end of the deal.
In order to answer the question, I have been speaking to a number of people in both the distribution and exhibition sectors in the UK and I think I have uncovered what’s really going on (and why both sides think they’re right).
The second question of how much money ends up with the filmmakers presents a different challenge: namely that the economics of each film are unique. However, most films go through the same basic steps of recoupment, meaning we can trace the common route between box office income and profit for the filmmakers and investors.
Given that a strong part of the push was a call for wealthy members to buy out whole screenings, I don't think we can rely on the number of tickets sold as a measure of how many people have seen this film.dastardly stem wrote: ↑Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:31 pmI gave up following this too much since the viewing of the film seems so long ago. But looking back at the numbers I spotted the astounding figure from last Monday the 5th of July. That day the movie made 699 dollars per theater. That outpaces every day other than opening night. This is what I get out of that:
1. Work holidays are a great day for movies.
2. Dan's continued promotion of the movie has paid off. The trend leading up to that was not looking so good.
I'm feeling less negative about the movie's success as others here. I get it certainly did not/will not make back the kind of money that was put into it. But those were largely donations anyway. It's not as if Dr. Peterson and other producers are going to owe anyone anything. And as he's noted, thousands of people have viewed the film. I'm guessing most of those are faithful members and were quite pleased with the results. I mean, the movie came and went. It was largely a disappointment to me, but it had it's positive aspects. I hope to see more. Perhaps the next movie, if they do an 8 witnesses or something, comes out a little stronger.
Fair enough. I know when I've mentioned it to family and friends who are members, they weren't aware of it.
