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Discovered that Y again has penny/OTC-BB Message Boards. They discontinued them years ago. When did they put them back?
Misguided terrorist attempt to take down the stock market. :)
Raging Bull has been down all day. Out of business? Hacked?
We need a "good folk" symbol. Ideas? Can anyone draw Ward Cleaver?
If you didn't play along with the crowd the "good folk" would gang up and threaten to strip your dollar signs. I remember that now. Takes me back.
Someone on their Pets.com board has all 5 of my dollar signs.
That's it, dollar signs. RBull tested other graphics such as a nervous hand patting a wallet. I suggested a drawing of my unemployed sponge of a brother in law.
Yahoo still has star ratings. Again, they're a contraindication of quality. Honest posters never seem to use them. Useless confusing clutter for newbies.
The star ratings may have one useful function for Yahoo. ONLY advertising spammers give each other top ratings. Therefore ratings make it easy for Yahoo to locate posts for deletion.
Raging Bull discontinued peer ratings after a short test a few years ago. Pump gangs will always rate each other highly. High ratings became a contraindication of veracity.
Adrian Brody demands $4 million a film. Oscar winner "Ray" about Ray Charles is a good recent music bio-epic. Film about Durante could be made for $150 million. Musicals are costly... Chicago, Evita, Phantom, Ray, Dream Girls.
No one has done low budget musicals since the days of Anette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.
Durante was one of a kind...
" American singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose — his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" — helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He was also one of the most beloved people within the entertainment industry: an acquaintance once remarked of Durante, "You could warm your hands on this man."
Will this be a musical or haven't they thought about that too?
Ask Leonidas who they have lined up to play Durante, a bald headed old guy with a big schnozola? A shaved Meatloaf perhaps 0)))
Option on script is hype. They don't say how long they have it locked up, maybe one day. How would they produce it?
Holy Moly: Jimmy Durante, who died 27 years ago, should fill theaters! Few people under 50 would even know who he was. Not many under 70 would be fans.
This all smells like pump and dump. Warner Brothers Studios gives short term rentals on even one office according to a web site.
Another thing, Circuit City sells the DVD by mail. Their web site doesn't show it being available in stores.
PD on National Cable Soon!
You know those popular 'countdown' shows on cable TV? I'm hearing 'a rumor' that The Pleasure Drivers will be featured on the upcoming special... 'Best 25,000 Films of All Time.'
lololol!!!!
Who's their cpa. They should give you that. Not confidential and is standard on credit applications. When will necessary audits be public? By the way, I find nothing online to indicate Pleasure Drivers is appearing anywhere as Pay Per View.
Most films fail and this is far, far, far worse than average.
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"The cost of shelf space in the movie industry is so high that there is little room for modest hits. In our winner-take-all society, you either a hit or a bomb. Around 500 commercial films are released each year in the United States, 200 of them as major studio releases. The cost of gaining mind space for any one of them is so expensive that small films rarely return the investment - and it's getting worse. On average, only one new film can be a hit each week. That means that 150 of the major studio releases will fall short of hit status.
An average major studio Hollywood film costs between $50-75 million to make. It costs between $30-50 million to market. Most major studio films that make less than $100 million dollars within a year from release are seen as failures, and that includes most of them.
Based on Amazon and BN, no way it computes. In addition, sales are falling quickly.
Barnes and Noble has the DVD sales around 21,000 now:
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?z=y&EAN=013137213298&itm=1
What these relative numbers mean in absolute units is a hot topic among book sellers. Long before the web, publishers were accused of making large purchases in select NYC stores that they believed fed figures to the New York Times for its best-seller lists.
Laid an egg as they say in H-wood. Amazon ranks it around 36,000 in sales. http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Drivers-Angus-Macfadyen/dp/B000LPS47A
Easy to learn how Pleasure Drivers is selling. Amazon publishes current sales rank for all their DVD's.