I have a review at http://www.doaskdotell.com/movies/mbubble.htm

I also recommend that Magnolia look at the film “Five Lines” a mystery on the DC Metro, from Brainbox. It is available in DVD only but it would make an excellent release for Landmark. (http://www.doaskdotell.com/movies/mlines.htm )

I don’t think that simulatenous DVD release will hinder attendance at films that people really want to see. The problem is that Hollywood is numbers driven, and it needs big numbers from the Multiplex movies aimed at kids and families, sometimes with weak and copycat story ideas.

(My new blog is http://billboushka.blogspot.com
I may start a movie blog there soon.)

Yes…yes I am.

As for the article he referenced, I’m still not sure what you mean. It’s hardly a personal attack to take Shyamalan’s position to its logical extreme:

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“He should stop making movies then,” the controversial entrepreneur said via e-mail. “He should also remove his existing titles from DVD release. That should make him very, very happy.”
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That’s far from a personal attack. Now, if he had said, “Well, he shouldn’t be in the theaters anyway, being a no-talent hack with a one-time hit and a lucky streak” — now THAT would’ve been a personal attack. I think he was making a perfectly valid reductio ad absurdum argument.

The review will be up here:
http://crimsonlight.com

….Windows continued to collapse as the apocalyptic ‘Bubble’ was released….

Frightened by uncertainty, and anticipating doom, theatre owners and moviemakers huddled together in disbelief….

http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/DisplayMovieSpecialOffers.action?channel=Movies&subChannel=sub&movieID=114169&displayBoxArt=true

Director Tim Burton warned of disastrous consequences, “A day-and-date release strategy would spell certain death for ‘Corpse Bride Too’….And that would be tragic, catastrophic, and somewhat redundant….”

M. Night Shyamalan tapped his ‘Sixth Sense’ and predicted an equally ominous future, “Theatre chains will perish!….The ‘Signs’ are everywhere….’The Village 2′ is doomed! ….I see dead people!”

Recalling the stock market ‘Bubble’ of not-so-long-ago, economists and politicians alike quickly jumped on the anti-’Bubble’ bandwagon. The usually soft-spoken Howard Dean vowed to “Go after the cats responsible for this day-and-date release stragedy!”

http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~lansil/blog/deankitty.jpg

Dean passionately exclaimed, “These ‘Bubble’ cats must be stopped!”….”Not only are we going after these cats in New Hampshire, we’re going after these cats in South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we’re going after these cats in California and Texas and New York!!….And we’re going after these cats in South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan!! And then we’re going after these cats in Washington, D.C !! ….Yeeeaaaahhh!!”

Jim Parham
Yuba City, CA

Get out of the movie business, you’re over your head.

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html

Now available on DVD

http://www.enronmovie.com/

and Mark and Todd Wagner are listed as executive producers for Good Night and Good Luck, appears to me they are off to a good start, at least at this years Oscars.