Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
TRANSFORMERS 3 TO OPEN MOSCOW FILM FESTVIAL
From TheWrap.com
“Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” will hold its world premiere at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, Paramount announced Monday.
It’s the first time a Hollywood blockbuster has opened the Russian festival and the first time the festival has hosted a world premiere. That gala is scheduled for June 23.
Director Michael Bay, producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce and stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey and John Malkovich will present the film.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
ATLAS SHRUGGED PRODUCER SPEAKS ABOUT PART 2
There has been quite a few statements from, John Aglialoro , the producer of Atlas Shrugged Part 1 on if there will be a part 2 & 3 made.
Here is statement he made about the possibility of sequels on May 8, 2011 to the Boston Globe.
How committed are you to financing Parts 2 and 3?
I learned something long ago playing poker. If you think you’re beat, don’t go all in. If Part 1 makes [enough of] a return to support Part 2, I’ll do it. Other than that, I’ll throw the hand in.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD
According to Harold Camping the world is to end on Saturday May 21, 2011. I heard on the radio that it will take place at 6 p.m.
While I'm cooking burgers on the grill I was reminded of the following predictions.
- In 1982 the alignment of all 9 planets was supposed to wipe out all life on earth.
- In May 1988 Nostradamus predicted Los Angeles to be destroyed by a massive earthquake.
- Nothing was going to stop the Y2K code problem and our modern society would shut down.
Did any of these things happen?
No.
Excuse me while I enjoy my burgers.
Friday, May 20, 2011
LIVE TOURING DOWN
From the UK Guardian,
When times are good spending over $100 USD on a halfway decent seat is doable. But when you lost your job, gas prices are over 4 bucks per gallon and your wondering how you are going to pay your bills a $100, $75, $50, $25 dollar ticket for a crap seat is not on your shopping list.
It was billed as the saviour of the music industry, and the way to make money while CD sales dropped further each year. But the live music industry stuttered last year, analysts have revealed.
In the UK, live music revenues dropped by 6.7%, after a decade of growth that saw income increase by 9.4% in 2009 and 13% in 2008, said Chris Carey, economist at PRS for Music, the rights collecting body.
Bon Jovi failed to sell out their arena tour last year, while fans of Paul McCartney could get tickets at less than face value before his Hard Rock Calling gig in Hyde Park last summer.
The article is a good read but leaves out one thing: The Effect of the Recession on ticket sales.In Europe the picture was worse – with arena music gigs seeing a 16% drop in attendances. But ticket sales for European festivals, like Soundwave in Croatia where young revellers dance day and night at boat parties, were still healthy, he said. There was a 6% increase in attendances in 2010, a 15% increase in capacity and 10% more EU festivals sold out.
When times are good spending over $100 USD on a halfway decent seat is doable. But when you lost your job, gas prices are over 4 bucks per gallon and your wondering how you are going to pay your bills a $100, $75, $50, $25 dollar ticket for a crap seat is not on your shopping list.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
IS THE YOUNGER AUDIENCE BEGINING TO ABANDON MOVIE THEATRES?
A very fascinating article from TheWrap.com on how box office revenue has been declining.
Its worth the read.Has the movie business finally caught the bug bedeviling so much of the media business?
Movie theaters have largely been immune to the digital virus until now. Box office revenue has, for the most part, continued to grow, even as changing media consumption habits of younger Internet-raised audiences have crippled the music business and roiled the broadcast television industry.
But it looks like the film industry is exhibiting symptoms of the same disease that brought other media sectors to their knees.
Domestic attendance plunged 5 percent last year, and continues its decline in 2011.
According to one tracking firm, pre-release data measuring audience interest in the days leading up to the release of major films has consistently been down among moviegoers under the age of 25 this year.
Two key metrics, 'intent to see' and 'self-reported,' are down 10 percent since last year and 15 percent since 2009.
With box office revenue off 13 percent through the weekend, some studio executives are quietly pondering a new paradigm in which their market no longer grows. In fact, there is some concern that the looming specter of new media has suddenly reached a tipping point, similar to the fall 2003 TV season, when the broadcast networks experienced an abrupt and very discernable decline in young-male viewers -- a group that has, for the most part, never looked back.
"We had a meeting where we sat down and told everyone to take a deep breath -- we might have to acccept the fact that our year-over-year numbers might not look right again," one pessimistic studio executive told TheWrap.
Movie attendance has slumped before, but North American box office is in the midst of a prolonged decline, steadily dropping 23 percent in ticket sales since peaking at an all-time high of 1.57 billion in 2002, according to the Motion Picture Assn. of America (see MPAA chart above).
Friday, May 13, 2011
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
I've been trying to log into both The Reporter and BankofKev blogs snce 2 p.m. yesterday and was unable to due to blogger service issues. It also appears that one of the posts on The Reporter was eliminated when they "fixed" the problem.
This post is not even in my drafts so it appears it is gone forever.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
REALLY BUSY
Where are you Kev?
I'm really busy with work so no blogging for the time being. Do not panic as I will be back very soon.
Monday, May 9, 2011
THE DRIVE IN WILL NEVER CLOSE...IN FACT WITH DIGITAL PROJECTION IT MIGHT JUST MAKE A BIT OF A COMEBACK!
This clip comes via Big Hollywood.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
DIRECTV ADDS 611,000 SUSCRIBERS
The Bank of Kev Compound proudly uses DirecTV as its primary source of news and entertainment. So when I saw that The Wrap was talking about how DirecTV has been growing despite a deep recession I thought I would share.
If you were a cable network and DirecTV paid you a mere five cents per subscriber (most established cable networks get paid via a carriage fee) you would be making roughly $975,000 USD per month. Not bad. On the flip side if you were kicked of DirecTV, thus losing its 19.5 million subscribers, you would be losing $975,000 USD per month.Most of those new subscribers are associated with DirecTV's Latin American business, but the company said it added 184,000 new customers in the U.S., and ended March with 19.4 million domestic customers -- holding its second-place position behind Comcast.
That would be very bad.
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES to 9.0 %
From the BLS.
The number of unemployed persons, at 13.7 million, changed little in April. The unemployment rate edged up from 8.8 to 9.0 percent over themonth but was 0.8 percentage point lower than in November. The labor force also was little changed in April. (See table A-1.)
The mighty Ed Morrissey of HotAir.comAmong the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (8.8 percent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (24.9 percent),whites (8.0 percent), blacks (16.1 percent), and Hispanics (11.8 percent) showed little change in April. The jobless rate for Asians was 6.4 percent,[snip]
not seasonally adjusted.
The number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks increased by 242,000 in April. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for27 weeks and over) declined by 283,000 to 5.8 million; their share of unemployment declined to 43.4 percent.
Well since unemployment rate has gone up that means you gegt the photo of the depressed & drunk Stormtrooper.What does this mean? Well, adding 244K jobs is always good news, although it’s going to take years to make up the job losses at this rate as the National Journal notes; it will take 2.5 years to make up the raw numbers, and several years beyond that to make up the difference in population growth. Furthermore, with growth settling down to 1.8%, it’s unlikely that the American economy will even keep its current pace of job creation. A growth rate of 1.8% will lose jobs rather than create them, and we’re more likely to see the unemployment rate go up again.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
JACKIE COOPER HAS DIED
From The Hollywood Reporter
Jackie Cooper, who rose to prominence as a child star in the ‘30s in movies like The Champ and then found a second career as a director, has died. He was 88.
He passed away Tuesday in a hospital in Beverly Hills, TMZ has reported.
While he became an established film and TV director, working on series from M*A*S*H to Cagney and Lacey, Cooper also maintained a screen presence, playing editor Perry White in 1978’s Superman and its sequels.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
BREAKING NEWS OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!
Fox News is reporting that Osama Bin Laden is DEAD! Killed by a U.S. Bomb in Pakistan! FOX NEWS reports that the U.S. has his body.
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