Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!reiher From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: "The Cotton Club" Message-ID: <3029@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 00:31:12 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.3029 Posted: Wed Jan 2 00:31:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:23:23 EST References: <2977@ucla-cs.ARPA> <2270@mit-hermes.ARPA> Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 20 Summary: When you see as many films as I do, you can't afford to spend $4-$5 per film. Over the past 5 years or so, I can't recall more than half a dozen occasions when I spent more than $3. Almost everywhere I've lived, you can see first run movies in good theaters cheaply if you go at the right times or if you buy discount tickets (sold by most universities and large companies, as a fringe benefit). I advise all movie lovers to do a little research locally to find out how to save money on movies. As far as "The Cotton Club" making profits goes, Robert Evans and Coppola only wish they just needed 10 million or so people to make a profit. As I think I've mentioned before, common wisdom says that a film must make 2-3 times its negative cost to show a profit, due to the theater owners' cut, advertising and print costs, interest on borrowed money, and all the other mysterious and dubious vagaries of Hollywood financing. Things don't look good for "The Cotton Club". -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher