>showed the movie. And there was no advertising. No posters, no
>commercials on TV, nothing. Is Buena Vista International in some
>financial trouble I don't know about?

Is the Disney Machine running out of money? HAHAHAHA! Sorry, not laughing at you, but, heh, that's funny. To paraphrase Bill Hicks, I see two things surviving nuclear war, bugs and Disney's money.

>Because those fucking bastards
>could have done a lot better than this. They tell us that there will
>be new cinemalist next week. But I don't believe that the situation
>will brighten up. Well, they digged their own grave this time. The
>lynchmobs are organizing and prepairing for battle.

Well before you go searching for the lynchin' tree for Buena Vista or Miramax or anyone like that, it has just as much to do with the exhibitors as it does with the distributors. If J. Random Theater Owner doesn't think he's going to make any money by putting a certain film on his screen, then it's not gonna fly. The only case where this isn't going to come into play is if the theater has a deal with a certain distribution company, which can be summed up something like "Sure, we'll let you run 'Lion King' and rake in your percentage of box office and all the concession money that goes with it, but in return, you have to run 'Operation Dumbo Drop' for at least four weeks." It sounds like a case of the man sticking it to the theater operators, but when you come right down to it, it's usually good buisness sense to cultivate relationships like that. The movie theater I worked at ran 'Apollo 13' for three months, and in the first month we had it, it pulled in over $100,000 on one screen for box office alone, and this was in Tallahassee, Florida. And for that, we ran our fair share of movies like 'Top Dog', 'Tommy Boy', 'Johnny Mnemonic', and the aforementioned 'Operation Dumbo Drop'.

They aren't gunning to make your life a living hell, honest. If they paid for a print to go into every cinema in Germany, they'd make no money back, and would not be encouraged to do it again. And especially with the way Disney works, I'm sure they had demographic charts out and pretty much almost every print that was released there was released with more strategic thought that your average military battle plan. Everything Disney does may not be fantastic, but you'd be hard pressed to find anything under the Disney umbrella that doesn't make money. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, it's just the way it is, and ultimately why they're even releasing the films in the first place.

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"You're a louse, Roger Smith."
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company