[HPFGU-Movie] I do NOT hate WB

[Nightbreed]

I took issue with it because WB is not being honest. My pre-teaching
profession was management, my degree, business. 

 

What WB is doing is trying to balance their balance sheets. Historically
only one out of 5 HP films made more money in the summer. In fact the top
money-maker is the first film which was released in Nov. The other summer
film, the GOF did not do as well by any stretch as OOP.

 

What Warner Bros. is trying to do is not have a huge year this year followed
by a modest year next. They claim the writer's strike left them with nothing
for next summer but the truth is other studios have major projects like
"Transformers II" coming out, why didn't the writer's strike leave them dry?

 

It's as simple as this, the high-ups (billionaires) at WB sit down and say
they will spend "this much" in 2008 and need to earn "this much" in 2008.
Then The Dark Knight came out and BOOM! They earned "this much" and didn't
need any more for their profit reporting. See, WB is a publicly traded
company, their profits must be reported. They made all the need for 2008 and
now they want to shift wealth to next years balance sheet. The decision to
move HBP to next year is simply a decision to move profits from 2008 to
2009.

 

Historically the films average the same profits whether released in summer
or fall, so WB is outright lying when they say the have reason to believe
the movie will do better in the summer.

 

md

 

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Jade B
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:32 AM
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] I do NOT hate WB

 

I see your point and I only hope for one thing from all of this is that this
release is across the board for the entire world so everyone sees it in the
month of July. Let's hope that WB isn't considering multiple date releases. 

Jade (who will wait till July...if she has to...)

--- On Mon, 8/18/08, anne_t_squires <tfaucette6387 at charter.net
<mailto:tfaucette6387%40charter.net> > wrote:

> From: anne_t_squires <tfaucette6387 at charter.net
<mailto:tfaucette6387%40charter.net> >
> Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] I do NOT hate WB
> To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com <mailto:HPFGU-Movie%40yahoogroups.com> 
> Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 8:42 PM
> I mostly lurk; but I feel the need to speak up about this
> latest issue. 
> 
> I admit that I am a little bit disappointed that HBP will
> be delayed.
> Yet I am not up in arms about it. I can live with it. 
> 
> I really cannot understand all of the vitriol that is
> coming out
> against WB. Warner Bros. is a business. The sole purpose
> of a
> business is to make money. Or so I always thought. If
> they feel that
> they can make more money in July then I actually hope they
> are right.

 



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