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ckbaby

08/08/10 9:26 PM

#40433 RE: asrmal #40430

Agreed asrmal ... all good questions we need to understand and challenge as investors.
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ijeffc

08/08/10 9:32 PM

#40434 RE: asrmal #40430

Since i have real money invested here. How did Susie Patton do with the Marketing. Did Eric leave alot of the marketing to her or did she follow what Eric wanted done.

If it was me i would get Twelve into the most urban area's they are not in now. Maybe 10 to 20 more screens and place some small TV ads on BET.

We had 4 theaters here where i live at in Florida playing in mostly white area's that had no turnout, yet the one theater which is a Magic Johnson Hollywood Theater which is closer to a larger black area was'nt playing the movie which i could'nt believe. To me it just does'nt make sense.

By the way i'm white.

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Dogfish Head

08/08/10 10:03 PM

#40437 RE: asrmal #40430

These are great questions, but they're questions that are not likely to be answered. Question, would you expect the CEO of another publicly traded film company to answer these questions? Of course you wouldn't, as it's the company's internal strategy. Hannover is a competitor for box office share with all the other distributors that have films in theaters. I don't see anywhere where another film company is divulging its business strategy for the release of films. I know some of the information isn't necessarily "proprietary", but some of it is.

All that is to say it's great to ask questions, but we're getting a little far afield here expecting Eric to divulge his battle plans. You either believe in him or you don't. I simply can't see where he'd ever release the answers to the questions you ask - as much as I'd want him to. If you choose to base your opinion on Eric and Hannover by the release of Racing Dreams and one weekend of Twelve, that is your prerogative and I think you know what you need to do. But there's no reason to think that Hannover is over and done at this point. In fact, not even close. There's just too much happening with this company both short and long term for them to be written off so soon.

Twelve hasn't performed -- yet. But this story is still being written. You of all people should know when to pronounce something dead. We're still breathing last I checked.