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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7233918" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Searching for commodities, foods, services, etc. is a little different.</p><p></p><p>Unlike the theaters around here, I can actually drive around and see find what I want from a moving car. Unlike the movies, those businesses- even the tiny ones- still put ads in media. </p><p></p><p>If I want Italian food, the signage is visible wherever I go. Every once in a while, I'll even go to one that is so small, the signs for it are barely noticeable.</p><p></p><p>But films? Unless I know what a studio is releasing via their advertising, its detective work to get that info. There are precious few pastimes I enjoy enough to work that hard for. RPG gaming is one. Guitar playing is another. Books are a third. Gems for jewelry design- simply by necessity- are a fourth. That's about it.</p><p></p><p>I don't have to work to hear about blockbusters. I see ads on TV and in print media, or hear them when I (rarely) listen to radio. I even get ads for them in pop ups on YouTube or in games which use ads to lower their prices or even make them free.</p><p></p><p>But no such effort is done for the "quality" films. They're pretty much left to fend for themselves. I'm not saying that merely as relative to their blockbuster studio mates. I'm saying that as someone who has actually looked at studio contracts, where you can see in black & white & $$$ what resources will be allocated to films at a certain level. Studios simply don't allocate the same resources to those projects, not even proportionally.</p><p></p><p>To clarify, if a $100M film gets a $10M promotions budget, that will be spread over all kinds of methods. If the same studio releases a $10M film, it <em>won't </em>have a $1M promo budget, and some resources will simply not be offered to promoting it.</p><p></p><p><em>There are valid business reasons for this.</em>. That doesn't make it any easier for the film in question, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7233918, member: 19675"] Searching for commodities, foods, services, etc. is a little different. Unlike the theaters around here, I can actually drive around and see find what I want from a moving car. Unlike the movies, those businesses- even the tiny ones- still put ads in media. If I want Italian food, the signage is visible wherever I go. Every once in a while, I'll even go to one that is so small, the signs for it are barely noticeable. But films? Unless I know what a studio is releasing via their advertising, its detective work to get that info. There are precious few pastimes I enjoy enough to work that hard for. RPG gaming is one. Guitar playing is another. Books are a third. Gems for jewelry design- simply by necessity- are a fourth. That's about it. I don't have to work to hear about blockbusters. I see ads on TV and in print media, or hear them when I (rarely) listen to radio. I even get ads for them in pop ups on YouTube or in games which use ads to lower their prices or even make them free. But no such effort is done for the "quality" films. They're pretty much left to fend for themselves. I'm not saying that merely as relative to their blockbuster studio mates. I'm saying that as someone who has actually looked at studio contracts, where you can see in black & white & $$$ what resources will be allocated to films at a certain level. Studios simply don't allocate the same resources to those projects, not even proportionally. To clarify, if a $100M film gets a $10M promotions budget, that will be spread over all kinds of methods. If the same studio releases a $10M film, it [I]won't [/I]have a $1M promo budget, and some resources will simply not be offered to promoting it. [I]There are valid business reasons for this.[/I]. That doesn't make it any easier for the film in question, though. [/QUOTE]
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