[joebuck]

"Natixis Bleichroeder, notes that DVD sales for latest sequels in the “Spider-Man,” “Fantastic Four” and “Shrek” franchises, all fourth quarter releases, have come up short."

It would appear that kids go to the movies and adults buy DVDs. Any decrease in DVD sales can be attributed to horrible crap Hollywood is putting out. I can count all the good movies I've seen in the last few years on one hand and still have enough fingers left to go bowling.

[abb]

I think Hollywood is scared chitless. And they should be.

[discostu]

I’m not sure about this “coming up short” thing. Spiderman 3 has sold 4.3 million copies, plus 800 thousand copies of the full trilogy. Shrek 3 has 5.2 million sold individually plus 600 thousand full trilogy sales. Fanstic Four 2 has 2.5 million sold, which given that it only grossed 134 million in theatrical isn’t bad.

There’s a lot of insistence on bad news for Hollywood but really the numbers are better than people think.

[RayChuang88]

Any decrease in DVD sales can be attributed to horrible crap Hollywood is putting out. I can count all the good movies I've seen in the last few years on one hand and still have enough fingers left to go bowling.

AMEN.

I mean, how many movies released in 2007 will get strong sales on DVD? Not that many, I'm afraid to say. I do think both Bella and Enchanted will be hot sellers on DVD when they come out in spring 2008.