[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Anyone planning on boycotting opening week of HP 6?.

[Child of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of eggplant107




I confess I just don't understand the moral outrage about this. If somebody
spends several hundred million dollars on a movie they will do everything
they can think of to maximize their investment; it's a fact of life and
you'd do the same thing. As for a boycott, do you really want to discourage
future Harry Potter projects?

Eggplant

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I think "moral outrage" is strong term not used by the "outraged" to my
knowledge. I went to the theaters last fall and saw trailers for HBP with a
November release date, they let EW run a cover story for HBP as a big FALL
film! They told fans the movie would come out in Nov. 2008 since the release
of OOTP. The film was ready-to-go, the date was set, the ads in place, the
articles printed.

Then they pulled it to manipulate their balance sheet.

Here's the thing people ARE NOT GETTING, Half Blood Prince will not make one
dime more in July 2009 than in Nov. 2008, not one freaking dime.
Historically the FALL releases have done BETTER than the summer ones, they
fall releases have made MORE MONEY per film average than the summer ones. 

If they would have said, "the films not ready, we are pulling it for
re-shoots and extra effects work, sorry." No one would be mad at WB, but
they said "hey our 2008 balance sheets going to show far more  profits than
we project for 2009, let's move our last big property to next year so
artificially decrease our profits and screw with the numbers to keep our
stock rising." It's artificial, and fake, what they are trying to do is
manipulate their stock price by bouncing HBP to change what year they report
the earnings. Further, they get to write-off the expense in a big profit
year (say, Dark Knight) so the money they spent on HBP won't even show
against the money it earns this year.

It's not about more or less money, it's about number manipulation. You know,
the crap wall-street does.

 

md



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