MPAA Touts Record Year For Hollywood

proudhawk writes "A blog posting in p2pnet today catches MPAA boss Dan Glickman at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas crowing about Hollywood's profitable year: 'Today, we stand on a new mountaintop, and I have to say: I like the view... We had about 5 percent growth in both the domestic and worldwide box office, all-time highs on both fronts reminding us once again that good stories well told always find a place in our hearts, our lives and our local theaters.' What ever happened to the ravages of online piracy?"

Awww poor guy

[spyder-implee]

Obviously just tryna keep a brave face in the midst of complete bankruptcy.

Dream World

[cjfs]

What ever happened to the ravages of online piracy?

The "reminding us once again that good stories well told always find a place in our hearts, our lives and our local theaters" should have clued you in they weren't talking about current movies ;)

Re:You're looking at it wrong.

[Blkdeath]

This doesn't contradict the "ravages of piracy" at all. Instead, the MPAA will say, "See, look! We cracked down on pirates and had a record year! CRACK DOWN HARDER!", as a justification for their future activities.

I'm listening to Leonard Cohen as I read your comment, and he just informed me that The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. Thats how it goes. Everybody knows.

Prophetic, that man.

tikka masala for one

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like you're making up for never having a date to take to the movies. :P

Re:You're looking at it wrong.

[tsa]

Even Jesus said something in that direction.

Re:Big surprise

[The Evil Couch]

There are actually some very high quality films coming out this year. Iron Man? The Dark Knight?

Yeah. Good job, Hollywood. Way to take a chance on a pair of unknown characters, with only 50 years of history and associated revenues far into the millions each.

I'm being facetious, of course; Iron Man's only been around for 45 years.

"But it if wasn't for piracy...

[Evil_Ether]

...imagine how much _MORE_ we could have made."

Re:scapegoat

[SanityInAnarchy]

Seems to me the world would be a better place if they got that backwards one year.

I wish I was in a position to organize just such a screw-up. Just swap the press releases...

No, wait, I don't condone such underhanded tactics. May as well be blunt and honest. Where's my cluebat?

Re:FUCK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!

[jessiej]

I think I actually helped the movie industry though. Every time I liked a movie I watched before it was actually released, I would talk it up. Hell, I think I sent enough people to the movie theaters in the last year that Hollywood should actually pay me for advertising.

Makes more sense in Australia

[svunt]

If you live in the US, you're still missing out...the films you watch in HD at home aren't the same movies that you can see at the cinema, they're last year's box office stories. Now, here in Australia, a great many films end up on my big screen via an .mkv file on the hard drive well before they hit the local cinema :D

Oh...

[SharpFang]

Income break-up:

- Cinema licenses: 5%
- TV licenses: 25%
- DVD sales: 10%
- Litigation: 60%