As a long-time fan of “The Big Bang Theory” (my beloved wasn’t too happy that I turned youngest into an avid watcher) I’d point out that the pharma industry forms a thread-relevant part of the backstory...
]]>You need to first pack'em in before they'll tell their friends.
A $100 million movie has probably spent about $35 million of that in marketing, and only about $65 million actually making the film.
But the economics of movies are tricky - you're not just convincing viewers to see the film, you're also convincing theater-owners to show the film. So you're convincing theater-owners that the viewers will want to see the film.
If a film opens well, and is well-advertised, then more theaters show it on more screens at more times, which means more people go see it as it's there, available. If it doesn't, or isn't... well.
And, of course, theater-owners make more money out of food and drink than they do from the tickets. So if you make a film aimed at a demographic that buys lots of junk food, then more theaters will play your film on more screens for longer. Hence an economic push to make films aimed at young men, who buy lots of popcorn and drink lots of coke.
]]>Most movies we see in theaters are after the initial run. In the US most metro areas with a 1/2 dozen or more theaters will have one that picks up movies after their box drops off and sell tickets for $2 or so. (First run movies are $7 to $20 depending on where you live.)
You know the $2 is for the movie rights. All of their money is made off of $10 popcorn. (That's for a small to medium sized bag.)
]]>Spare a thought for the pilot trying to land the average fixed-wing light aircraft: he sits on the left, with a yoke, not a stick (because the user experience is meant to be exactly like driving a car...) with his right hand on the throttle (there's only one, in the centre, single axis, not much adjustment required), which only leaves the left hand (feet are dealing with the remaining axis) for the yoke to make the precision two-axis attitude adjustments needed all the way down.
]]>A few years ago, The Economist did an article on cinema economics. As the saying apparently goes, "Movies for show, Popcorn for dough". The ticket price covers the cost of hiring the film to show in your cinema; the profit comes from the concessions. Last time I took the boys to the cinema, my wallet felt like someone had shouted "Stand and Deliver!"
We live next-door-but-one to the manager of a family-owned Edinburgh cinema; they compete with the big chains by trying to offer a more comfortable/local/friendly experience (e.g., big comfy sofas to sit in) and by being rather central in Morningside...
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]]>Demetria's list, oh my. Every (spell) item listed is personal and selfish.
it made me wonder what would happen if spellcaster tried to fix Brexit. Now that at least is larger in desired scale of change, and potentially (depending on investments etc) less selfish.
]]>Actually, I wonder if Dho-Nha curves are a special case of elliptic curves
Or a L-system like the dragon curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve
or a space-time-filling curve
]]>The internal dissension you cite is certainly real, although it seems to me that both sides are similarly culpable, if the displays of Labour MPs bitching at other Labour MPs in public that I've come across are any indication. MP 1: "You're damaging the Labour party..." MP 2: "No, you're damaging the Labour party..." (me: FFS YOU'RE BOTH DAMAGING THE LABOUR PARTY CARRYING ON LIKE THIS, JUST PACK IT IN ALREADY [twitches wing against side])
And the far right are trying to foment dissent against Corbyn with this antisemitism bollocks, partly because they want to make Labour as much of a basket case as the Tories are making themselves, and partly to divert attention from their own unsavoury orientation. It appears to be having some success at least at the second of those, from what I can make out; I'm unsure as regards the first, because I see so little dissent from the view that criticism of the state of Israel over their treatment of the Palestinians is entirely justified that I can't tell if it's unanimity I'm seeing or just a filter bubble effect.
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