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Well, to be fair, if someone found a way to pirate straight from the projector that would be a pretty high quality copy floating around. It also strikes me tha
by waterlesscloud 14y ago
Well, to be fair, if someone found a way to pirate straight from the projector that would be a pretty high quality copy floating around.
It also strikes me that this allows distributors to control for unreported screenings, which allowed for unreported income. Probably not as common as it was way back when, but certainly possible.
- joezydeco 14y agoI could be wrong, but has hasn't the business model for showing films changed as well? Theatres used to rent the 35mm prints by the week or month. Now, studios ask for a cut of each ticket sold, don't they? That's why studios are worried about unauthorized showings that could happen "off the books" and go unreported revenue-wise.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoYeah, the distributors (often but not always arms of studios) take a percentage of each ticket sold. It's usually a sliding percentage- the distributor gets more at first and then the balance slides in favor of the exhibitor (theater) the longer the film has been out. The big chains are all computerized and report back to the distributors and can generally be trusted to be truthful. It's the mom and pop theaters that might have cheated in the past.