Check out these prices for LoTR marathon.


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Wow. That is, offically, after 6 years of doing eBay auctions and buying from there, the stupidest thing I have ever seen. $500 for freaking movie tickets?! Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have money (or computers :D)
 

KenM said:
With this type of demand, New Line should really consider adding more screens.
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Why? It isn't like New Line is seeing any of that ticket scalping money. If it does New Line no good, then why on earth should they do anything about it? Especially when such hunger is exactly what they want to see. If the thing is too accessible, people won't want it so badly. Human nature.

Oh, and don't start in with the idea that New Line should charge more for the tickets. People grumble about ticket prices as it is. If New Line were to start charging that much for them, the public would hang them out to dry.

In general, pricing should not be set by the demand of a few hardcore fanatics, or people who have so much money they can throw away hundreds on a ticket to a single event.
 

New Line isn't going to be opening more screens. They were quoted as saying (paraphrasing) that they offered the trilogy tuesdays as a 'gift to the fans' and never went into it 'wanting to make money' but just enough for it to 'pay for itself.' Apparently they've been flooded by vendor requests to offer more screens and have rejected them. So it sounds like it ain't going to happen. At least not this year. There are suggestions they may offer something like this again in the future, on the trilogies anniversary or some such thing.
 

These people have more sense than money. You can still see the extend versions on the big screen just not all at once. And you won't suffer from numb butt syndrome. :D
 



Welverin said:
Had you bothered to think about it, it would be easy to figure out.
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Had you bothered to read, you'd have noticed that my point about pricing kind of covers that. They can't jack the price far above what it'd cost to just show three movies. And despite the apparent demand, only a fraction of the viewing public are willing to sit through an entire half-day of movies at once. That's a recipie for not making a whole lot of money on the deal. For New Line it makes more sense to show more short movies in those theatres, and keep the really rabid fans hungry through scarcity.

In other words the answer, "Because a small number of rabid fans want them to" doesn't really cut it.
 

Although I was tempted by the LotR marathon showing, I decided to pass. That is just too much movie in one day.

After all, I didn't read the entire trilogy in one day. I can handle not seeing the entire thing in one day.
 

Umbran said:
In other words the answer, "Because a small number of rabid fans want them to" doesn't really cut it.
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And you know it's a small number how?

Despite the jacked up prices and lack of pub the marathon sold out quickly everywhere and exceedingly fast in a few places, and that's for a movie event two months off.

Anyway my post was in reply simply to your "Why?" Which is easy enough to figure out, but despite fan interest, and if theaters are asking them for extra prints there must be significant interest, they still refuse to doe so. That calls into question their state reason for doing this in the first place, after all the financial burden wouldn't be theirs.

By the way your post did not address the issue at all, it's a tangent that fails to actually explain why New Line won't provide more prints for additional screens.
 

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