Jedi Master Carr
Jul 22nd, 2002, 09:46:32 PM
I just read this on theforce.net
Lucasfilm has put the word out to HBO, Showtime and Starz! that it has created a pay TV window for "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones."
The pay networks are surprised at the movie's availability because they assumed Lucasfilm would repeat the no-pay-window strategy engineered for "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace." For "Menace," the Fox Network bought out the pay window, negotiating the deal at the same time 20th Century Fox worked out the contract to distribute the movie theatrically.
But the broadcast networks have cut back on their purchases of theatrical movies. Sluggish advertising revenues have curtailed the expense budgets of the networks, and movie ratings have fallen off noticeably in primetime during the past three or four years.
I guess FOX don't want to pay the money though TPM had solid ratings just probably good enough to want to pay HBO money for AOTC(I guess that is there thinking) Still, Spiderman will be on one of them too so its not like it shows anything bad, heck ANH was on HBO once upon a time, that is the first place that I saw it oddly enough.
Lucasfilm has put the word out to HBO, Showtime and Starz! that it has created a pay TV window for "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones."
The pay networks are surprised at the movie's availability because they assumed Lucasfilm would repeat the no-pay-window strategy engineered for "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace." For "Menace," the Fox Network bought out the pay window, negotiating the deal at the same time 20th Century Fox worked out the contract to distribute the movie theatrically.
But the broadcast networks have cut back on their purchases of theatrical movies. Sluggish advertising revenues have curtailed the expense budgets of the networks, and movie ratings have fallen off noticeably in primetime during the past three or four years.
I guess FOX don't want to pay the money though TPM had solid ratings just probably good enough to want to pay HBO money for AOTC(I guess that is there thinking) Still, Spiderman will be on one of them too so its not like it shows anything bad, heck ANH was on HBO once upon a time, that is the first place that I saw it oddly enough.