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Originally Posted by Longshot
I don't understand all the fuss about this. The Departed is one of the best movies of the last 10 years not just this year. Combine that with the lack of releases from HD DVD studios and of course it's going to sell. If I had an HD DVD player only I would buy it. The trend is still overwhelmingly in favor of BD.
Let's see how well The Good Shepperd and Children of Men do when released. Both were critically accliamed but dissapointments at the box office. Someone here and I can't remeber who said new releases "are the lifeblood of the format". I couldn't agree more and this means Universal is in serious trouble. Children of Men has only grossed $33 million YTD with a budget of $76 million! The Good Sheperd has not passed $60 million with a budget of $85 million. No wonder there's a shakeup at Universal. With revenue deficits like these I don't see how they can hold out on BD much longer let alone until Xmas season.
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Both The Good Shepherd and Children of Men should do very well for HD DVD. The lack of box office is probably a big positive since it means the titles will be completely fresh for many. And they are so desperate they've pushed an HD sampler disc and a calibration disc into the top 10 on Amazon (how sad is that?!).
But, really, compared to a Casiono Royale or a Pursuit of Happyness, the Universal stuff is going to be a complete joke when looking at absolute sales from all sources.
March 13 and then March 20 are going to be absolutely mind numbingly disasterous Videoscan numbers for HD DVD.
Gary
EDIT: I'm left wondering how well a title like The Good Shepherd would do on Blu-ray. And how long Universal can look at the BD numbers and brush them off.