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Originally posted by Kyle Fenton
Even though movies get millions, only few make profits now a days. This might be hard to fathom, but movies after all expenses are making surprisingly little profit.
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Can you show me numbers?
I think you're wrong. While every movie doesn't make a profit, nevermind an enormous profit,
most movies do manage to scrape by. To suggest otherwise is kinda ludicrous. Are they making everyone wealthy? Probably not so much.
Even if domestic box office grosses don't appear to be profitable, most movies go on to do six times that amount in worldwide ticket sales. Video releases, reissues, and other nifty marketing tricks (like Director's Cut DVDs) ensure that movies make money.
The movies are, after all, an industry. Even if one doesn't make money, it gets maid on the coattails of other box office successes. That said, though, you've got to have more movies that float than sink if
anyone expects to make money.
A movie about FIRST, in any case, would probably be the most boring thing ever put to film. Television, movies, radio, or any other major media exposure is a bad thing for FIRST, across the board. What FIRST needs, and what we're doing a poor job with, is a real grassroots movement that reaches out to individuals and ropes them in. We need to be a presence in every city, if only for one weekend a year, so that people are exposed to what we do in the flesh.
We do not need a stylized presentation that glosses over the dramatic reality that we experience as participants of FIRST. When we get the word out on our own and when people are aware that FIRST participants surround them, then we can start exposing them to more stories of FIRST. Until then, keep the television and things out of it -- particularly those, as they represent interests that are not our own.
In any case, I'm interested in learning more about the majority of movies that don't seem to turn a profit.