Comments on: Notes on Exploitation Cinema http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/16/notes-on-exploitation-cinema/ better than wikipedia Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:29:58 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Morgan http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/16/notes-on-exploitation-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Morgan Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:14:26 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=844#comment-63 Come now, Dean, the messy business of anything that involves stats OR history start out pretty dry and your project involves both! I'm sure that when you're through with it, it'll make a great read :) Come now, Dean, the messy business of anything that involves stats OR history start out pretty dry and your project involves both! I’m sure that when you’re through with it, it’ll make a great read :)

]]> By: Dean Brandum http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/16/notes-on-exploitation-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Dean Brandum Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:07:17 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=844#comment-60 The film was, in fact, "Willard", a flick about a young bloke and his killer rat. I'm working on devising a method of box-office viability, hoping to display that films that were listed as champion performers from a given year were not, necessarily, particularly strong performers for the cinemas that screened them. Conversely, films labelled as overall duds may have done well at individual theatres, but were mismanaged by their distributors. It is dry as kindling at the moment, believe me. The film was, in fact, “Willard”, a flick about a young bloke and his killer rat.

I’m working on devising a method of box-office viability, hoping to display that films that were listed as champion performers from a given year were not, necessarily, particularly strong performers for the cinemas that screened them. Conversely, films labelled as overall duds may have done well at individual theatres, but were mismanaged by their distributors.

It is dry as kindling at the moment, believe me.

]]> By: Martin Kingsley http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/16/notes-on-exploitation-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Martin Kingsley Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:42:02 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=844#comment-59 The idea that NOTLD was legitimately sharing space with a Poitier drama blows my tiny mind. How is it that one's PhD comes to contain a study of Pittsburgh box office takings in the first place? I'm insatiably curious as to what it more broadly pertained! The idea that NOTLD was legitimately sharing space with a Poitier drama blows my tiny mind.

How is it that one’s PhD comes to contain a study of Pittsburgh box office takings in the first place? I’m insatiably curious as to what it more broadly pertained!

]]> By: Dean Brandum http://www.pleasantfluff.com/2009/07/16/notes-on-exploitation-cinema/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Dean Brandum Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:21:35 +0000 http://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/?p=844#comment-58 Really fascinating stuff. It was interesting to have some context to the release of NOTLD at the Nixon in Pittsburgh. Coincidently, my PhD contains a study of Pittsburgh box office takings between 1968-72. The top 7 highest grossing first run weeks were shared between The Warner and the Stanley theatres screening either "Love Story" or "The Godfather". Happen to take a stab at what came in at #8? Not Funny Girl, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Planet of the Apes or The Graduate, so cross those off the list. Hint: - It pertains to the thread topic. Really fascinating stuff.

It was interesting to have some context to the release of NOTLD at the Nixon in Pittsburgh.

Coincidently, my PhD contains a study of Pittsburgh box office takings between 1968-72. The top 7 highest grossing first run weeks were shared between The Warner and the Stanley theatres screening either “Love Story” or “The Godfather”.

Happen to take a stab at what came in at #8?

Not Funny Girl, Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Planet of the Apes or The Graduate, so cross those off the list.

Hint: – It pertains to the thread topic.

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