Comments on: ATHF: Movie film for DVD http://www.seanobrien.org/2007/04/athf-movie-film-for-dvd.html seanobrien.org Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed http://www.seanobrien.org/2007/04/athf-movie-film-for-dvd.html#comment-4313 Ed Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2007/04/athf-movie-film-for-dvd.html#comment-4313 The $3 million for free? The studio won't see a penny of that once you work in production & marketing costs + the $2 million they ponied up to the city of Boston for the March fiasco. You are exactly correct. They should have gone Direct-to-DVD. A theatrical release of such a marginal property is simply asinine. It doesn't help that most active viewers of ATHF feel the show lost it after its first season so they may not even get the shear numbers they would have once upon a time. If they absolutely wanted a theatrical run they should have released it on DVD and then made a few prints to farm out to college towns for midnight runs and build a cult following. Of course, the only problem there is - in this day and age - the college crowd is more prone to hunker around a pirated copy on YouTube than head out to the Nickelodeon for a communal experience. The $3 million for free?

The studio won’t see a penny of that once you work in production & marketing costs + the $2 million they ponied up to the city of Boston for the March fiasco.

You are exactly correct. They should have gone Direct-to-DVD. A theatrical release of such a marginal property is simply asinine. It doesn’t help that most active viewers of ATHF feel the show lost it after its first season so they may not even get the shear numbers they would have once upon a time.

If they absolutely wanted a theatrical run they should have released it on DVD and then made a few prints to farm out to college towns for midnight runs and build a cult following. Of course, the only problem there is – in this day and age – the college crowd is more prone to hunker around a pirated copy on YouTube than head out to the Nickelodeon for a communal experience.

]]> By: JFCC http://www.seanobrien.org/2007/04/athf-movie-film-for-dvd.html#comment-4288 JFCC Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:41:48 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2007/04/athf-movie-film-for-dvd.html#comment-4288 I can offer absolutely no excuse for it, but I've been watching Saul of the Mole Men. Never liked ATHF much, though. I miss Space Ghost. I can offer absolutely no excuse for it, but I’ve been watching Saul of the Mole Men.

Never liked ATHF much, though. I miss Space Ghost.

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