Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Thu, 01 May 2008 12:53:10 EDT http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView 50 81 en-us James A. Robertson Copyright 2007 Cincom Systems, Inc. 2008-05-01T12:53:10-04:00 39.214103 -76.878807 Wave Goodbye to the DVD http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Wave_Goodbye_to_the_DVD&entry=3387099190 movies Thu, 01 May 2008 12:53:10 EDT

This news about iTunes - movies being available there on the same day as DVD release - is huge. Combine that with "On Demand", and you can see that DVD sales are headed to the same place that CD sales went:

Hollywood Reporter says that Apple is expected to announce today an across-the-board deal to sell new release films at its iTunes Store. The deal is said to allow Apple to offer a "broad slate of top-shelf films" day-and-date with home video releases -- a long time sticking point with brick-and-mortar interests who want to keep their early-release edge on digital downloads. The deal includes Fox, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, New Line and more -- all of which are currently inked to deliver rentals through iTunes.

IMHO, Sony isn't going to enjoy the Bu-Ray win for long.

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We went to see Cloverfield this evening - it's a pretty good monster/horror flick, with the twist being the first person POV used to tell the story. My only critique? The first 20 minutes could have been done in ten minutes instead. Otherwise - relentless. It came at me the way I remember the first Terminator movie coming at me.

]]> 3380828631 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3380828631 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3380828631 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Cloverfield&entry=3380828631 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Cloverfield&entry=3380828631 Boris 2008-02-19T01:20:21-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>+1! I gotta have me HD-DVD copy when it comes out... Err... Make that Blue-Ray :) </p></div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Cloverfield&entry=3380828631 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Cloverfield&entry=3380828631 Ramon Leon 2008-02-19T10:38:57-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Eh, it was a Blair Witch rip off, and while the action was non stop, they left too many things hanging open or unexplained.&nbsp; It was OK, but I wouldn&#39;t pay to see it again.&nbsp; Not in the same league as the Terminator. </p></div> Bah! http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3380828631 And there was much Rejoicing http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=And_there_was_much_Rejoicing&entry=3375456145 movies Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:42:25 EST

Definitely cheer-worthy:

The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has settled his differences with New Line Cinema and will executive-produce a two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the studio announced.

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Well, there was a daily "Pep Rally" at Disney Hollywood Studios, and my daughter and her friends are positively obsessed. Here's a NY Times story that shows that it could be the biggest basic cable event ever.

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I just got back from the latest Potter flick - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phenix". I loved it - good pacing, and the story line with the Ministry of Magic's "head in the sand" reaction was perfect. My wife and daughter both that the woman who played "The Trunchbull" in "Mathilda" would have made a better weasel than the actress who played that role, but I thought she was quite good.

Anyway - well worth seeing.

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I'll be offline for a bit, as I'm headed out to see the new Potter flick with the family. I'll have more to say after I see it :)

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SciFi Wire reports that a new Terminator flick - possibly the start of a new trilogy - is on the boards. If they stay with the idea of showing us the post-SkyNet future, that could work. I just hope they don't get all Lucas-esque on us, and get high on their own fame and deliver the equivalent of the last three Star Wars flicks (utter dreck), or - gosh forbid - the hash that was the last Matrix movie.

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]]> 3356249151 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3356249151 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3356249151 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 Tim Wang 2007-05-10T15:18:04-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Do I sense you liked the Terminator 3? </p></div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 Rick 2007-05-11T07:43:11-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I&#39;m assuming that Lucas had too many yes men around him, and nobody had the balls to tell him that the scripts were tailored to five year olds. Maybe we need an online petition to see if Ridley Scott can do T4. </p></div> No Lucas-esque please blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Terminator_4_New_Trilogy&entry=3356249151 Rick 2007-05-11T07:44:19-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>T3 sucked...there&#39;s no getting around that. T2 actually wasn&#39;t too bad for a sequel. Why do I have bad vibes about T4? </p></div> About T3 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3356249151 Grindhouse: Slow pickup http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Grindhouse:_Slow_pickup&entry=3353558285 movies Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:58:05 EDT

SCI FI Wire reports that Grindhouse is getting a slow pickup:

Grindhouse was a box-office horror over the Easter weekend, opening in a disappointing fourth place with only $11.6 million, despite positive buzz for the faux double feature from directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, the Hollywood trade papers and wire services reported.

When you bring a movie to market that runs over 3 hours, it has to be really, really god to make big money. The production costs for this flick were reportedly low, so it might still end up on the positive side of the ledger - but how well would it have done had they dropped it down to 2 hours, or - even crazier - syndicated it out to cable TV as a 2 or three part serial?

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