TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Been watching the first eps of Gotham. It's pretty entertaining, and has a suitable, yet not excessive, over-the-top feel. It's a comic book procedural and I like that.

Alfred is a bit of a cunt 

[Martinus]

Been watching the first eps of Gotham. It's pretty entertaining, and has a suitable, yet not excessive, over-the-top feel. It's a comic book procedural and I like that.

Alfred is a bit of a cunt 

Yeah it's probably the best of the new slew of superhero TV shows right now. The only beef I have with it is not enough hot guys.

[katmai]

Gotham is shite

[citizen k]

From DS9, "Once More Unto the Breach" is the best Klingon-centric episode of any Star Trek.

[viper37]

Are they doing a trilogy...or just a one-off?

3 movies related to the main trilogy, 2 other independant spin-off in the SW universe.

[Eddie Teach]

Gotham is shite

I wouldn't go that far, but it's definitely starting to wear. Feels like all the interesting characters and plots are locked away too far in the future.

[Sophie Scholl]

A video about the creation of the Star Wars Despecialized Edition, a fan effort to recreate the original theatrical release of Star Wars in HD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=654&v=dHfLX_TMduY

I'm far too interested in this project:  https://swrevisited.wordpress.com/  It's an attempt to edit the blu-rays into more consistent films in terms of effects, costumes, and the like.  Amazing work by the people involved.

[jimmy olsen]

John Oliver on 50 Shades of Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3TzSnwCn4

[Eddie Teach]

The Champ. Ok movie. Not as fun as Paper Moon.

[Admiral Yi]

Caught the part of Rush that I hadn't seen before.  Some good scenes, my favorite being the hitchhiking scene.  Still not a terribly good movie.

[celedhring]

DS9 was cancelled after just one season in Spain and never aired again. Never released on DVD. Every trekkie I know tells me it's the best modern Trek series and I feel robbed.

[Syt]

Just read a news article about movie theaters in Schleswig-Holstein. There's 66 theaters, but a lot of them are struggling. Many of them consider not showing any future Disney movies, including the new Avengers flick. Disney has raised the share small theaters have to from 47.7% to 53% of the ticket sales. The theaters claim that they're barely profitable as it is, and that they just can't afford to pay a higher rate. So it might be that in future the blockbusters will only be shown in the bigger cities (Kiel, maybe Lübeck, Flensburg, Neumünster) which in turn might kill many theaters in the countryside.

[celedhring]

Just read a news article about movie theaters in Schleswig-Holstein. There's 66 theaters, but a lot of them are struggling. Many of them consider not showing any future Disney movies, including the new Avengers flick. Disney has raised the share small theaters have to from 47.7% to 53% of the ticket sales. The theaters claim that they're barely profitable as it is, and that they just can't afford to pay a higher rate. So it might be that in future the blockbusters will only be shown in the bigger cities (Kiel, maybe Lübeck, Flensburg, Neumünster) which in turn might kill many theaters in the countryside.

That's a good deal, over here distributors can carry up to 60% for big movies. And I believe it's similar in the US.

[Syt]

Again, that's small theaters in the area, not sure about the multiplexes in the cities.

[katmai]

Just read a news article about movie theaters in Schleswig-Holstein. There's 66 theaters, but a lot of them are struggling. Many of them consider not showing any future Disney movies, including the new Avengers flick. Disney has raised the share small theaters have to from 47.7% to 53% of the ticket sales. The theaters claim that they're barely profitable as it is, and that they just can't afford to pay a higher rate. So it might be that in future the blockbusters will only be shown in the bigger cities (Kiel, maybe Lübeck, Flensburg, Neumünster) which in turn might kill many theaters in the countryside.

That's a good deal, over here distributors can carry up to 60% for big movies. And I believe it's similar in the US.

When i worked at multiplex in so cal it was based on sliding scale that for debut weekends could be as little at 20-30% of ticket sales was kept by theater, hence a big reason mark up on concessions items. The amount the theater would keep in ticket % would increase each week, which was why some films would run for 8-12 weeks in our 12 plex as those last few weeks it was i think around 40-50% of sales is what the studio were getting.