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Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by jedberg »

reaperducer wrote: post #26
ascar wrote: post #15

While reading this I wondered how they ended up at a box office of $25,488. Did they really spent $25,488 and consider it as a "small fee" to be the first in box office?! If I interpret the information about "four-walling" correctly, they actually paid the Cinema a much smaller fee to get all seats, but can then report all money they make of these seats as Box Office earnings. The Westhampton Beach Theater has 425 se…

Did they really spent $25,488 and consider it as a "small fee" to be the first in box office?! According to the TV news this morning, yes, they did buy all of the tickets themselves. Which kinda makes the "$0 Budget" headline a little iffy. $0 to make the film. But $26k to achieve their goal.

All of the $25K went back to them as their part of the ticket sales. So they only paid the screening fee.

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Post by jimmydddd »

sp332 wrote: post #63
wnissen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The weird thing is that even with Cisco $$$ Webex still isn't as good as Zoom at streaming. I wanted to watch a Youtube stream simultaneously with friends and tried it out with Webex, Hangouts, and Zoom. Hangouts was unwatchable, maybe 1-2 frames/second, but hey, it's a "free" product. Webex made it possible to see what was going on, but honestly it was pretty crappy. Zoom looked more or less like the original stream…

Have you tried using Google Meet instead of Hangouts? I'm just curious if it's noticeably different.

I think Meet is just a rebranding of Hangouts. Meet just sounds better for enterprise than Hangouts.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by parsimo2010 »

Jedd wrote: post #70
parsimo2010 wrote: post #55

"So they pay a flat fee to the theatre..." "In that sense, "we made a slight loss" on the movie, Mr Tabach said." Oh, so it's not a $0-budget movie. I suppose they probably get at least that much value in free publicity from articles like these and us talking about them online. Now they can pitch their next project as coming from the brilliant minds of chart-topping filmmakers. Bravo to some guys that figured out how…

> Oh, so it's not a $0-budget movie. Note that the movie's actual production cost / budget was indeed $0. In order to then get to the top of this particular list on IMDB - by showing the movie in an actual cinema - that bit cost some small number of $'s, according to TFA.

In strange Hollywood accounting you're right. But it's a fact of real life accounting that you can't take a loss on something that cost $0.

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Post by Xorlev »

vmception wrote: post #54
teach wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I "participated" in a less nefarious strategy. In 2010, when the collection of short stories "Machine of Death" was about to be released, the editor Ryan North asked us not to pre-order. Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day, which certainly led to increased sales over time. Probably didn't hurt that it…

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

> For myself I have used one of the popular quickly and cheaply grown accounts to slide into the DMs of local women.

:|

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Post by paulryanrogers »

vmception wrote: post #54
teach wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I "participated" in a less nefarious strategy. In 2010, when the collection of short stories "Machine of Death" was about to be released, the editor Ryan North asked us not to pre-order. Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day, which certainly led to increased sales over time. Probably didn't hurt that it…

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

So this is a strategy to meet women who value popularity first and foremost? Sounds like a lot of work to "skip the queue".

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Post by interestica »

netcan wrote: post #48
floren wrote: post #17

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I was just listening to a podcast that included Steve Rinella lamenting that his recent wild game cookbook didn't make the NYT Best Seller list despite selling out on Amazon... If I remember correctly, it was precisely because of pre-orders. Thus, as he prepares to release his latest book, he's asking fans to buy the book, but to try and mix it up from just Amazon pre-ordering: pre-order at independent bookstores, or…

SEO everywhere. This is all getting to be too much.

Seriously. I swear people are using it for baby name choice.

Though I wonder if some version of optimization was done in the past? At the top of the attendance list, I always got called on first....

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by austhrow743 »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #75
vmception wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

So this is a strategy to meet women who value popularity first and foremost? Sounds like a lot of work to "skip the queue".

Sounds like they were doing the work mostly as work, and the women were a side perk.

Women who value popularity on instagram tend to be pretty hot as well.

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Post by tomlagier »

marcod1419 wrote: post #18
DevKoala wrote: post #9

I find it amusing that Zoom’s user experience allowed it to capture the market to such degree that is now making waves in pop culture. How did Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc get it so wrong all of these years?

I would really like to know what went wrong with Google especially. They've had years to develop Hangouts and Meet, yet it's so, so behind in both performance and quality. Are both of these products just riddled with technical debt to the point that these improvements take significantly longer than normal?

I have repeatedly found Meet much higher quality than Zoom - straightforward to launch from the browser with a single click, clearer settings, better video quality, and no scummy installed app practices.

That might be because of my location or some other factor, but I really don't understand why people find Zoom so much better - it doesn't match my experience at all.

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Post by keeganpoppen »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #75
vmception wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

So this is a strategy to meet women who value popularity first and foremost? Sounds like a lot of work to "skip the queue".

not to mention that you get what you deserve wrt. the outcomes / kind of people this attracts. honestly, seems like good matchmaking to me-- shallow meets shallow.

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Post by vmception »

austhrow743 wrote: post #77
paulryanrogers wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this is a strategy to meet women who value popularity first and foremost? Sounds like a lot of work to "skip the queue".

Sounds like they were doing the work mostly as work, and the women were a side perk. Women who value popularity on instagram tend to be pretty hot as well.

> Women who value popularity on instagram tend to be pretty hot as well.

hot, yes, and another important factor being: fun!

the combination is anomalous in SF since the demographics do not select for it, so the evolutionary pressures are non-existent.

but here and everywhere you see them on dating apps and they don't see you at all and won't respond to you at all on the gram as this is their way of passively increasing their follower count and engagement. But when you show up with a lot of the thing they value? It is disingenuous to find this perplexing. Its wealth, social proof, and ingenuity in a tough market all in one. This has been attractive to our species for a very long time.

The profiles can be about anything even scantily clad women (maybe not actual memes though, but maybe), and they don't even know what I look like and they come through at least to the cafe. No different than any other date, just all the exceptions you ever wished for, and with fun and hot people that otherwise ignored you. Its more about getting a response than anything and recognizing that you are incapable of being the strangest or most precarious circumstance that many women have ever been in, just offer and invite. You are already rich, in followers, and recognize that this is a currency, just like they do.

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