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Author Topic: MovieTunes Gary Davidson Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Santa Monica, CA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-16-2004 04:58 PM                     How does MovieTunes make their money?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-16-2004 05:19 PM                        By billing their customers. I believe they charge record companies to feature their music, and I think theatres may have to pay for it (Movie Tunes), rather than a license.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-2004 06:14 PM                        It's free to theatres. They also make money by selling those stupid COMMERCIALS which drive me nuts because they are always advertising for stores we don't have locally, like Best Buy and the like, thereby hurting our local (small) businesses. So I keep the volume low.  |  IP: Logged Greg Davis Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Vista, Ca, USA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 09-16-2004 06:42 PM                     I want to know who chooses their music. Polyphonic spree? egads!  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-16-2004 06:53 PM                     Mike, you could just pay ASCAP their yearly fee, or not run any pre-show music at all.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-16-2004 08:53 PM                        When we first started playing MovieTunes about 3 or 4 years ago, they made a big deal of the fact that they had NO COMMERCIALS. It wasn't long before they started back-announcing songs this way: "That was the new hit by the Craptastics....pick up their new CD at Best Buy after the movie!" Then it was only a few more months before actual commercials (still read by the same lame announcer) appeared. So really we should all be suing them for breach of contract or something.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-16-2004 11:35 PM                     Regal just started a new program in colaberation with Disk Marketing. It's called "Widescreen Radio". It has front and back announced songs from mostly independant artists I haven't heard of before. It has no direct advertising other than for Regal Gift Cirtificates. The announcer tries his very hardest to sound like Kris Eric stevens of MovieTunes fame. It plays after the feature tails out, but before the 2wenty.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-17-2004 12:49 AM                     When a theater I worked at started getting Movietunes a few years ago, the contract mentioned that it had to be played at "Foreground level"- we just kept the non-sync volume where it always was though and nobody ever checked- I think it even got turned down a few times when customers complained about it. MY theater's intermission music will be played from a Quadraphonic 8-track tape player- you haven't lived til you've heard Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops playing the Greatest Hits Of The 70s in 4-channel!  |  IP: Logged Steve Anderson Expert Film Handler Posts: 168 From: Nashville, TN Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-17-2004 12:37 PM                        We bought an XM radio for our theatre...it kicks ass!  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 09-17-2004 01:29 PM                    After experiencing the 3 Days of 3D festival in Suffern NY, I'm convinced that all theaters should install pipe organs.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-18-2004 11:35 AM                        so mike b., why on gad's green earth are you still using movietoons? you own your theater, right? you rightly hate m.t., and gain nothing from it. there are people who stay far away from theaters that run movietunes. (i'm sure i'm not the only one.) carl  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-18-2004 12:07 PM                        Because we don't want to pay the ASCAP/BMI fees. I am willing to spend money for things that make sense, but paying hundreds of dollars a year in order to play music that is basically just background noise for 30 minutes a day doesn't make sense.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 09-18-2004 12:18 PM                     I know a couple of theatres that have played their local softrock radio stations as pre-show for almost 20 yrs. Never paid ASCAP a dime. And the stations appreciate it. I would much rather NOT play anything preshow than to make customers "suffer" with movie tunes. It should be banished from the earth.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-18-2004 01:00 PM                        hyperbole aside, my sentiments exactly. carl  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 09-19-2004 11:07 PM                        quote: Mike Blakesley They also make money by selling those stupid COMMERCIALS which drive me nuts because they are always advertising for stores we don't have locally, like Best Buy and the like, thereby hurting our local (small) businesses. If you don't have a Best Buy locally, than how can can the ad possibly hurt local small businesses? It would hurt them if you DID have a local Best Buy.  |  IP: Logged

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