Re North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com>
> Date: January 2, 2017 at 3:56:20 PM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion
>
> If the defendant in a case of car theft argues “yes, I stole a car but the guy I stole it from has plenty more cars 
> so no big deal”, I don’t think the court is going to be sympathetic. It’s easy to pretend it’s no big deal by 
> cherry-picking data, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a large number of musicians willing to assert they’re 
> doing as well as they ever have.
>
> The most heavily pirated movies and TV shows have geek appeal, according to some random poster on Reddit:
>
> Top ten most pirated TV shows of 2016:
>
>       • Game of Thrones
>       • The Walking Dead
>       • Westworld
>       • The Flash
>       • Arrow
>       • The Big Bang Theory
>       • Vikings
>       • Lucifer
>       • Suits
>       • The Grand Tour
>
> I don’t know which are least-pirated, but my guess would be children’s shows. So piracy makes the kind of shows I 
> like watch less profitable to produce than shows I’m way too old to watch until I get grandchildren. I don’t believe 
> this dynamic is good for the culture as we Americans are much too childish already. Look at the tantrum we threw in 
> November.
>
> RB
>
> > On Jan 2, 2017, at 6:17 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> > Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:43 AM
> > Subject: North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion
> > To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> > Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> >
> >
> > Journalists, pundits, and politicians should keep this article handy when Hollywood resumes their anti-technology & 
> > restrictive IP maximalist actions in 2017 while citing the 'scourge' of 'piracy' being a crippling thing for their 
> > bottom lines, thus justifying their requests.   -- rick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion
> >
> >
> >
> > Brent Lang
> >
> > Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang
> >
> > January 1, 2017 | 02:04PM PT
> >
> >
> >
> > http://variety.com/2017/film/news/box-office-record-finding-dory-1201950948/
> >
> >
> >
> > The North American box office closed out the year with $11.4 billion in ticket sales, ComScore said Sunday. That 
> > marks a new record for the industry, bypassing the previous high-water mark of $11.1 billion that was established in 
> > 2015.
> >
> >
> >
> > ComScore, a data measurement company, did not calculate admissions, but studio executives and analysts believe that 
> > attendance will be essentially flat. Nor does it account for inflation. The record was achieved, in part, thanks to 
> > more expensive tickets. Ticket prices hit new highs earlier in 2016, though an average full-year price for tickets 
> > have yet to be calculated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Still it was a record that few thought the industry would set. This year was faulted for lacking major franchises 
> > such as James Bond and the Fast and the Furious series.
> >
> >
> >
> > It was a particularly strong year for Disney, which controlled more than a quarter of the domestic market share 
> > despite releasing fewer films than any of the major studios. It made the most of what it had. Disney launched four 
> > of the top five highest-grossing films, including “Finding Dory,” the years top film with $486.3 million. When 
> > holdovers are taken into account, Disney had six of the year’s ten highest-grossing releases, a group that includes 
> > “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which debuted in 2015.
> >
> >
> >
> > Other top films include “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” ($408.2 million), “Captain America: Civil War” ($408.1 
> > million),”The Secret Life of Pets” ($368.4 million), and “The Jungle Book” ($364 million).
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> Richard Bennett
> Founder/Publisher, High Tech Forum
>  
> IPR Consultant



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