• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    13 days ago

    They claim Netflix ruined their chances of selling the World War II spy thriller, titled Fortitude, by losing the master copy during an internal screening review.

    Netflix executives asked to see a working version of Fortitude after looking at sales materials. Filmmakers provided the key to a digital cinema package so staff could test the movie internally.

    The true master copy was never handed over, so it couldn’t have been lost.

    The stolen hard drive held an unencrypted copy of the $45 million picture.

    Valuing theoretical lost ticket sales for the pirating of a yet-to-be marketed movie with a budget of $45 million at $105 million is ludicrous. At a 60 percent share of the U.S. average ticket price of $16.30, that would be assuming that not only would 10.7 million people pirate the movie, but that those 10.7 million people wouldn’t have watched a different movie had the only means of watching it been at the movie theater.

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    13 days ago

    At last they didn’t get the Oscar-winning script he wrote on the back of the Magna Carta.