Wolverine opens to $87mil, does this kill the piracy hurts argument?

[T'Baio]

So Wolverine opened to the tune to $87 million this weekend.

It was also the most blatantly, famously, biggest and most advanced pirated movie pretty much ever. The studios say pirating kills the industry. Does this prove them wrong?

Or are they just gonna say Wolverine could have made it to a $110 million opening if it had not been pirated? You think that's true?

 

[Emher]

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They'll continue to bitch, no doubt. But then again, being an exec is like being a politician: you only have the job because you're useless for everything else!

 

[Captain Craig]

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Several bands/musicians have allowed downloads of songs/albums days or weeks prior to release only to have the commercial releases become chart toppers or at least be big enough to be called a success.

I've no doubt that somewhere on some project it could be a justifiable claim.
Not on Wolverine.

 

[Lookingglassman]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

 

[Rii]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

You're lucky he didn't stab you in the neck, what with him being a pirate and all.

 

[T'Baio]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

Stealing things isn't very Christian.

 

[Captain Craig]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

Stealing things isn't very Christian.

What is with the religous jab?
It was he who stole it nor chose it for viewing.


You really going to derail your own thread by taking personal non sequiter jabs?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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He should have told his barber, "Turn off that offensive DVD! It is the Whore of Babylon!"

Maybe not the best thing to say to a guy holding a pair of sharp scissors.

 

[Lookingglassman]

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Rii, ARRRR MATEY! Heck, most of the Soldiers I work with have seen it when it first hit the internet. They told me about it before I even got to lay eyes on it.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

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I thought the soldiers were fighting the pirates.

I guess the $110M opening is what they'll argue, and like God and ghosts it's one of those things you can't prove isn't true.

It is interesting that it had such a solid opening, it certainly makes one wonder how much actual damage had been incurred and for that matter how much negative reviews matter.

 

[bigdaddy]

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They'll continue to bitch, no doubt. But then again, being an exec is like being a politician: you only have the job because you're useless for everything else!

Nicely said!

Tomorrow some guy at Fox will come out and say it would have, and should have beaten Spiderman's numbers but people stole from them! It's not like the people at Fox ever fuck movie people over, maybe $11 for a nighttime movie?

 

[Trekker4747]

Re: Wolverine opens to $87mil, does this kill the piracy hurts argumen

So Wolverine opened to the tune to $87 million this weekend.

It was also the most blatantly, famously, biggest and most advanced pirated movie pretty much ever. The studios say pirating kills the industry. Does this prove them wrong?

Or are they just gonna say Wolverine could have made it to a $110 million opening if it had not been pirated? You think that's true?

Unfortuantly, there's no way of knowing.

Reports say that the slump in the economy isn't hurting the movie business -infact it's helping it- so presumably Wolverine (and any other movie) is going to make as much as it possibly can right now.

$87m isn't a bad opening weekend, esp. considering the "Summer Movie Season" doesn't officially start until Memorial Day Weekend (biggest opening day/weekend of the year) but is it great for what was supposed to be a Summer Blockbuster? It's a movie featuring one of the most popular comic book superheroes!

The stuidos probably would've liked to seen something closer to $100m and they'll think that the leak cost them that $13m. Afterall, people weren't excicted or impressed with the early release, didn't go to see the movie because of it, that's less money in studio's pocket.

And it still all comes down to -no matter what- piracy is wrong. It's stealing. Through and through. It cost the stuido millions to make this movie and they deserve to try and make that money back, something that's not happening when people are downloading it and watching it for free.

In the end, Wolverine will still make money and likely turn a bit of a profit once it leaves theaters and gets the bulk of its DVD sales done, but the bootleg certainly didn't help matters.

 

[sidious618]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

How long does it take you to get your hair cut that you could see the whole, or at least a decent part of, film?

 

[chrisspringob]

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I wonder how much it would have made if the movie had been leaked, and the buzz had been *good*.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

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considering the "Summer Movie Season" doesn't officially start until Memorial Day Weekend (biggest opening day/weekend of the year)

That used to be the case, but no longer. The first weekend of May has been considered the official start of the summer movie season for some years now.

 

[miraclefan]

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He should have told his barber, "Turn off that offensive DVD! It is the Whore of Babylon!"

Maybe not the best thing to say to a guy holding a pair of sharp scissors.

I don't know why, but that makes me LAUGH!

 

[Trekker4747]

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Well my money isnt part of this total since my local barber had it playing on his DVD player when I got what little of my hair cut last Monday. Good movie.

How long does it take you to get your hair cut that you could see the whole, or at least a decent part of, film?

He may of had a long wait.

But I doubt any sensalbe businessman would run an illegal bootleg on a TV set in a place open to the public.

 

[TGTheodore]

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God, THIS old thing AGAIN?

It's theft. It didn't help. It probably HURT because an unfinished version was leaked.

Wait for stuff and PAY for it ... otherwise there won't BE anymore stuff WORTH stealing.

--Ted

 

[Spot's Meow]

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By the way they are in fact using the "it could have made more" argument. I just watched a segment about it on the news last night. They were expecting to make $100 million apparently.

 

[Rii]

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Let us all share a moment of silence.