Originally posted by: WaragainsttheCouncilHere's where I disagree. This is one business model. Not the only one. Not even necessarily the best business model. It is purely one approach out of many.
Hold on, I didn't say that it is the only possible business model, and I didn't state without doubt that it's the best one either. I think what Lucasfilm is doing with Star Wars is reasonably sound if their motivation is to reap some good profit, though there are of course alternatives. I certainly don't support their business model though and would have done things very differently and would have brought quality releases to the market if I had the power to do so for sure, so that's another take on things right there.
LFL does have many other revenue generators. THX, LucasArts, LFL (who worked on the most successful film of the year, PIRATES) and then the merchandising wings including EU. There is a plethora of revenue streams into that company. So LFL isn't dependent upon releasing and re-releasing and re-releasing SW again and again to survive.
I wasn't aware that LucasArts was part of Lucasfilm (though Lucas obviously has control of both), and I didn't know Lucasfilm was involved much with contemporary movie productions. If this is true, then I'll have to slightly update my view on things. I have to wonder if Lucas own ego, personal matters (aside from the money-making side of things) and old contracts plays a bigger role with regards to the lackluster OOT releases than what I've been thinking up until now.
Enough with the fancy words though, it's Monday.
Crap sells. Quality sells. But which one lasts in the marketplace and which one, almost always, sells more. Quality. Which one is ultimately remembered? Quality. Eventually, and this is proved in the market time and time again, crap is punished in the marketplace. Crap loses. George found this out with his ATTACK OF THE CLONES release. For a SW franchise title, it performed miserably.