[IP] It appears the movie business _isn't_ in a slump after all

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby@henkel-wallace.org>
Date: October 4, 2005 8:59:29 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: It appears the movie business _isn't_ in a slump after all


Dave, this screenwriter says the movie business isn't in a slump at  
all, and quotes the numbers to prove it:
http://johnaugust.com/archives/2005/the-sky-is-not-falling .  As he  
puts it, “Ticket sales lag behind 2004’s numbers by only 6%, with  
attendance off 8.7%...Is there really an industry crisis if just one  
movie would eliminate it?"  Check out the graph in the article to see  
how close this year tracked last year's.  And a comment on the blog  
suggests that last year was atypically _good._.

Commentary in The Register lays blame for the chicken-little cries on  
some usual and unusual suspects:
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/04/hollywood_crisis_no_crisis/

Still I agree with other IP letters on the subject that it's not  
worth heading to the local MUX.

regards
-d



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