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And The Entertainment Industry Wonders Why There Is So Much Piracy In China...

January 10, 2012

China's film watchdog is mulling measures to make going to the cinema more affordable, including setting a maximum price for tickets and boosting the number of half-price screenings.

"The ticket price is still on the high side and cannot meet people's expectations and demand for movies," said Tong Gang, head of the movie bureau at the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), on Monday.

According to the China Film Industry Report 2010-2011, the country's average ticket price in 2010 stood at $5.3, while the figure in the United States was $7.89.

However, $5.3 represents one-fifty seventh of the average monthly income of a Chinese urbanite, while $7.89 represents just one-four hundred and ninetieth of the the US equivalent.

In major Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the ticket price for a blockbuster can surpass 100 yuan ($16).

According to Tong, the SARFT will issue a recommended pricing guideline for cinemas in 2012, set a maximum price and urge cinemas...

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Would You Pay $60.00 to Watch A Movie 3 Weeks After It Was In The Theater on VOD? Theater Chains Won't Even Allow Test!

October 12, 2011

Add Sumner Redstone’s exhibitor company National Amusements to the list of chains who won’t show Universal’s upcoming caper comedy Tower Heist. The 950-screen circuit said today that it won’t screen the Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy movie if the the studio moves ahead with plans to test a shortened video-on-demand window that will make it available three weeks after it premieres in theaters for $59.99. The film opens November 4. Cinemark has been the lone major chain to say it won’t screen the film if the VOD test — set for two markets, Atlanta and Portland, Ore. — goes forward, arguing that any shortening of release windows will impact its business. Earlier this week, regional chains Regency Theatres, Galaxy Theatres and Emagine Theatres also said they wouldn’t play the film. The other national chains, AMC and Regal, and industry group NATO have not weighed in, and Universal has been declining comment so far.

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The Avengers - Official Trailer

October 11, 2011

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Sony CEO Howard Stringer Does Not Get It! "Content Will Give Company's Tablet Edge Over Apple!"

September 2, 2011

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“We will prove that it’s not who makes the tablet first...but who makes it better," he said in Berlin.

NEW YORK - Content is king, including when you compete with Apple for a share of the tablet market.

That was the message from Sony Corp. chairman and CEO Howard Stringer as he talked up his company's tablets and signaled that his company will take on Apple’s iPad by offering music and movies.

“Yes, yes, Apple makes an iPad, but does it make a movie?” Stringer said in a presentation at Berlin’s annual consumer electronics fair, Bloomberg News reported. “We will prove that it’s not who makes the tablet first...but who makes it better.”

Bloomberg quoted Alexander Peterc, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, as saying: “The tablet has to be significantly better than the iPad for consumers to want to buy it at that price point. Sony’s big advantage is that they have the content.”

The tablets that Stringer discussed...

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