'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts
I must be living under a rock because I had no idea.
I heard book publishers do the same tricks.
I did not know this, but am not surprised.
I heard book publishers do the same tricks.
Two outrages in one day. I'm spent!
Ha!
Just be glad noone's caught on to my trick about adding the extra costs for 3D & Imax to my movie to shoot it up to number one within a two-months...
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CJ, I think the expensive food has to do with the bottleneck of distributors for valued brands (in horizontally and vertically integrated companies like Sony), versus the independent, franchised and chain movie theaters.
They just don't have space to negotiate, so they make most of their profit off the food, even with the advent of higher prices for 3D.
AFIK Sumner Redstone isn't making what he used to off of the theater chains he (or his daughter, I lose track) owns.
I'm no fan of Redstone but at least with consolidation, for awhile, in the '90s I think they were able to negotiate better deals...it still didn't lead to lower ticket prices, just greater profits, though.
'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts
I must be living under a rock because I had no idea.
Stuff like this is fairly common outside the entertainment industry too. Independent auditors are paid by the companies they audit, which makes them about as independent as one would expect. Sometimes they get caught.
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CJ, I think the expensive food has to do with the bottleneck of distributors for valued brands (in horizontally and vertically integrated companies like Sony), versus the independent, franchised and chain movie theaters.
They just don't have space to negotiate, so they make most of their profit off the food, even with the advent of higher prices for 3D.
AFIK Sumner Redstone isn't making what he used to off of the theater chains he (or his daughter, I lose track) owns.
I'm no fan of Redstone but at least with consolidation, for awhile, in the '90s I think they were able to negotiate better deals...it still didn't lead to lower ticket prices, just greater profits, though.
I was being snarky for snarkiness sake.
The issue with expensive food is for profit you are right. Our local theater chain has lowered prices on candy and soda ect and then offered real food you can have delivered to your seat in the theater. Nothing like getting a waitress bring you your steak to your seat while watching a good movie.
You wouldn't steal a CD...
You wouldn't steal a car...
You wouldn't steal a purse...
You wouldn't steal millions of dollars from your business partners by cooking the books...
Oh wait.
C'mon, guys, the Mob has better etiquette than this. And hides it better.
You wouldn't steal a CD...
You wouldn't steal a car...
You wouldn't steal a purse...
You wouldn't steal millions of dollars from your business partners by cooking the books...Oh wait.
Point.
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The issue with expensive food is for profit you are right. Our local theater chain has lowered prices on candy and soda ect and then offered real food you can have delivered to your seat in the theater. Nothing like getting a waitress bring you your steak to your seat while watching a good movie.
Wow. That sounds really delicious. But knowing me (and I do) I'd probably accidentally stab myself with the steak knife during the exciting parts in the movie.
When God rolled my stats, the dump stat was Dex. Food has a Fatal Attraction to my clothes (especially if I'm wearing white or something new or expensive).
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The issue with expensive food is for profit you are right. Our local theater chain has lowered prices on candy and soda ect and then offered real food you can have delivered to your seat in the theater. Nothing like getting a waitress bring you your steak to your seat while watching a good movie.Wow. That sounds really delicious. But knowing me (and I do) I'd probably accidentally stab myself with the steak knife during the exciting parts in the movie.
When God rolled my stats, the dump stat was Dex. Food has a Fatal Attraction to my clothes (especially if I'm wearing white or something new or expensive).
well that does sound like an entertaining date night anyway. lol
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LOL.
"The movie was boring, but this one audience member kept everyone entertained when she dropped a whole steak in her lap."
Once, on an airplane, something very similar to that actually happened to me. Scalding coffee + turbulance = me yelling bloody murder while the flight attendant tries to wipe up the spill while forcing me to "please remain seated" until the captain says I am "free to move about the cabin."
It is VERY hard to remain seated with a whole cup of coffee burning itself through your slacks. I think the children seated in the next row learned some colorful words that day.
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LOL.
"The movie was boring, but this one audience member kept everyone entertained when she dropped a whole steak in her lap."Once, on an airplane, something very similar to that actually happened to me. Scalding coffee + turbulance = me yelling bloody murder while the flight attendant tries to wipe up the spill while forcing me to "please remain seated" until the captain says I am "free to move about the cabin."
It is VERY hard to remain seated with a whole cup of coffee burning itself through your slacks. I think the children seated in the next row learned some colorful words that day.
LoL I bet they did.
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Once, on an airplane, something very similar to that actually happened to me. Scalding coffee + turbulance = me yelling bloody murder while the flight attendant tries to wipe up the spill while forcing me to "please remain seated" until the captain says I am "free to move about the cabin."
It is VERY hard to remain seated with a whole cup of coffee burning itself through your slacks. I think the children seated in the next row learned some colorful words that day.
The correct thing to do in this situation, from a first aid point of view, is to remove the clothing. Most of the hot fluid is still in the fabric and it will also allow the, ahem, 'injured area' to air-cool.
The attendant should also have dumped cold water on you, not tried to mop up.
The attendant should also have dumped cold water on you, not tried to mop up.
It is not nice to mob somebody in that situation anyway.
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Once, on an airplane, something very similar to that actually happened to me. Scalding coffee + turbulance = me yelling bloody murder while the flight attendant tries to wipe up the spill while forcing me to "please remain seated" until the captain says I am "free to move about the cabin."
It is VERY hard to remain seated with a whole cup of coffee burning itself through your slacks. I think the children seated in the next row learned some colorful words that day.
The correct thing to do in this situation, from a first aid point of view, is to remove the clothing. Most of the hot fluid is still in the fabric and it will also allow the, ahem, 'injured area' to air-cool.
The attendant should also have dumped cold water on you, not tried to mop up.
Is that when the corny '70's music start playing?