>Titanic was in theaters from December 1997 to October 1998
>The VHS set was released in September 1998 while the movie was still in theaters
What movie since then has been in theaters that long? Did it top 10 months?
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That is a pretty insane stat. We're just not going to see that anymore with all of the digital platforms available. The most recent lengthy theatrical run was probably Avatar.
lmao is that supposed to be impressive
the frick is up with that fricking format
An Indian Director put it together
Because most of them didn't have access to any sort of home media
most people in the west didn't either until the 1980s, which is relatively recent in terms of cinema history
Shit movie . They didn’t even save the boat from sinking
you're so fricking stupid, its based on a historical event that was fricking REAL IT HAPPENED! The movie was 100% accurate down to every iota frick you
Let me guess you were the door
Too much shit these days.
There will never be another movie the world is talking about in unison.
There wont even be famous people anymore with all the fame dilution due to e celebs and such.
I remember when VHS releases took months to come out after a movie, I think harry potter was like at least 6 months after we saw it in theaters.
Now BD/digital comes out like 4 weeks after the premier date
I feel like I had to wait 17 years for Dinosaur to come out on VHS as a kid
>I remember when VHS releases took months to come out after a movie, I think harry potter was like at least 6 months after we saw it in theaters.
>Now BD/digital comes out like 4 weeks after the premier date
Months? , VHS tapes originally took years to come out. This was especially true of “art” films, and foreign films, since whoever had the distribution rights would try to get the film into as many theaters as possible across the country, before finally releasing the film on video, and it could take years before the distributor was finally finished shipping the film around the country.
Maybe movies also did this, or might hope for theaters to play films again because of word of mouth advertising.
I forget when the release times got shorter. Maybe around the time Laserdiscs became somewhat more common.
With foreign films, the VHS tapes could also be very expensive. Maybe $80-$100 each to purchase a copy.
That ended somewhat when DVDs became the common standard.
Distributors and cinemas madated a gap between the theatrical and home ent releases. That's why it felt like a lifetime anon.
I Asked Jeeves and apparently Jurassic Park ran for 71 weeks in theaters. Crazy.
how come mary elizabeth winstead gets so much shit for "ruining a generation of women", meanwhile kate winslett was both Rose in Titanic and Clementine in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?
No one saw Scott pilgrim. Even less women saw it. Somehow the ruined meme lives on
>No one saw Scott pilgrim. Even less women saw it. Somehow the ruined meme lives on
SP might not have been seen in the Theater, but plenty of people watched it on DVD or Cable, or have streamed it.
How many souls on board ?
And how many Irish ?
>green tint
Go download that fan color correction 4k that fixes it so crisp white clothing lit by the midday sun on the ocean isnt the color of mint ice cream
That sounds great
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every blockbuster movie used to have a long theater run. It's because the VHS wouldn't be available until a year later. Forrest Gump would come out. It would be a big hit. And then next year you'd see VHS commercials tell you to buy it.
Now a film comes out in theaters and two weeks later it's on streaming and then a month after that it's completely forgotten.
shorter releases means you can consume next product faster
>every blockbuster movie used to have a long theater run. It's because the VHS wouldn't be available until a year later. Forrest Gump would come out. It would be a big hit. And then next year you'd see VHS commercials tell you to buy it.
Slow VHS releases weren’t the reason for long theatrical runs.
“Long” theatrical runs WERE the reason for slow VHS and home video releases.
Major blockbuster films were usually released into theaters across the country around the same time, but not always.
Sometimes even major films, with major box office stars, were released in some markets like LA and NYC fist, with other parts of the country getting the films slightly later.
This happened with major films, and it happened way more often with smaller films.
Lower budget art house films, independent films, B-movies, and Foreign films, and documentaries, would usually only have a small number of prints made, and those prints would get shipped from theater to theater around the country.
Distributors wanted the films released into theaters, because there was more money from a theatrical release.
The slow travel of the film across the country could mean it was years before the film distributor would finally release the film on video.
This could even happen with large budget films that didn’t do well on first release.
The distributor might try a second theatrical release, which sometimes worked.
Usually once a film got released on VHS, there could then be a year or more before the film wound up on a premium cable channel, then maybe a few more years before an edited version might show up on a basic cable channel, or broadcast TV.
I recall some films being 5 or 6 years or longer before they ever got released on video.
I also remember ‘Cutthroat Island being advertised 2 years or more before it was finally released into theaters for all of one week, and I missed my chance to see it in the theater, and saw it on a shitty letterboxed VHS tape.
What made the movie Titanic so successful?
Great sinking parts that appealed to males. A cuckolding story that appealed to females. Everybody found something for them.
sex and cuckoldry, women and the bourgeois love this shit
girls flicking the bean to leo boys jackin' it to kate winslet
>What made the movie Titanic so successful?
‘Titanic’ was predicted to be a flop for two years or more before release.
The run time was Loooong.
Then it got released, with a crapload of publicity, and the sets and stunts sort of amazed people, since a lot of the scenes were practical effects rather than CGI.
Titanic and Pokemon are similar to me, they are my contemporaries at the tail end of the Bill Paxton action/adventure era and of the Capcom 2d rpg, respectively.
when I worked at AMC in 2000, the Sixth Sense came out on video/DVD a year after its release, and our megaplex was still showing it on at least 1 screen for a few more months
That was good experience seeing that for the first time on the big screen before everyone was talking about the ending. I even took a few dates to see it and blew their minds.
Avatar went for a pretty long run in 2009 but I don't think it was over a year.
I seriously had the memory of seeing her breasts here. I know they cut to her butt but I could have sworn you saw both her breasts and now it upsets me when I see the movie
that jojo movie cause it was never released on video LMAO
E.T. played for a full year in its first release. It took 6 years to be released on home video. I know this isn't answer to your question but I just wanted to let you know that Titanic wasn't first.
I was in middle school back then and remember the absolute obsession everybody had for the movie.
Girls would go see it at the threather over and over and it's all you could hear about.
People wore tshirts of it and such and the stupid celine dion song was everywhere.
It seemed like it would never end.
I didn't even watch the movie until a few years ago because of that.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been in theatres since 1975 and has been shown ever since uninterrupted in limited release.
I'm convinced half the plastic island is just Titanic video tapes. They're probably on the fricking moon somehow.
No one mentioning OP used imax version of the movie