$500 for First run movies in your house?
04-12-13 | 05:15 PM
#1
Thread Starter
DVD Talk Hero
$500 for First run movies in your house?
Is this a waste of money especially if you can't keep the movies?
When Ken and Carol Schultz began remodeling their 10,000-square-foot San Diego-area residence, they spared no expense on a screening room. The couple tricked it out with custom-built armchairs with heat and massage functions, and a Runco 3-D-capable projector with a price of about $100,000.
But the most unusual feature of the theater is a $35,000 device that offers 24-hour rentals of first-run movies. For $500 a film ($600 for 3-D), the Schultzes can show movies the same day they screen at the local multiplex.
The Schultzes are not members of the exclusive "Bel-Air circuit" — a few hundred producers, writers, actors and executives who mostly live on the Westside and receive copies of first-run films from movie studios, often just as they're released to theaters.
Instead, these Rancho Santa Fe film fans, who also own a West Hollywood condominium they bought from actor Matthew Perry, are willing to pay a premium to screen movies as the Hollywood moguls do
There are also costs to the circuit. Many people who receive films from studios are required to hire a courier who, for a fee of at least $250, will retrieve a digital copy of a movie and then return it to the studio.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr...inema-20130409
When Ken and Carol Schultz began remodeling their 10,000-square-foot San Diego-area residence, they spared no expense on a screening room. The couple tricked it out with custom-built armchairs with heat and massage functions, and a Runco 3-D-capable projector with a price of about $100,000.
But the most unusual feature of the theater is a $35,000 device that offers 24-hour rentals of first-run movies. For $500 a film ($600 for 3-D), the Schultzes can show movies the same day they screen at the local multiplex.
The Schultzes are not members of the exclusive "Bel-Air circuit" — a few hundred producers, writers, actors and executives who mostly live on the Westside and receive copies of first-run films from movie studios, often just as they're released to theaters.
Instead, these Rancho Santa Fe film fans, who also own a West Hollywood condominium they bought from actor Matthew Perry, are willing to pay a premium to screen movies as the Hollywood moguls do
There are also costs to the circuit. Many people who receive films from studios are required to hire a courier who, for a fee of at least $250, will retrieve a digital copy of a movie and then return it to the studio.
04-12-13 | 05:31 PM
#4
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
What a waste. MONEY POORLY SPENT!
They can't wait 6 months and watch it on DVD?
They can't get their chaffeur and be driven down to ArcLight, or whatever 1st rate cineplex they have in San Diego?
They can't wait 6 months and watch it on DVD?
They can't get their chaffeur and be driven down to ArcLight, or whatever 1st rate cineplex they have in San Diego?
04-12-13 | 05:31 PM
#5
DVD Talk Legend
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
I wonder if Ken and Carol would like to adopt? 
But seriously, if they have THAT much money and are really movie fans, why don't they just build and open their own cinema? At least they'd be getting some return on investment, and they can close it on days they want to view movies themselves...and they could have an IMAX instead.
But seriously, if they have THAT much money and are really movie fans, why don't they just build and open their own cinema? At least they'd be getting some return on investment, and they can close it on days they want to view movies themselves...and they could have an IMAX instead.
04-12-13 | 06:36 PM
#6
DVD Talk Hero
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
Wow, and they also have to buy the device for 35k.
"But the most unusual feature of the theater is a $35,000 device that offers 24-hour rentals of first-run movies. For $500 a film ($600 for 3-D), the Schultzes can show movies the same day they screen at the local multiplex."
"But the most unusual feature of the theater is a $35,000 device that offers 24-hour rentals of first-run movies. For $500 a film ($600 for 3-D), the Schultzes can show movies the same day they screen at the local multiplex."
04-12-13 | 06:42 PM
#8
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
If you've worked hard and earned your money and you're not commiting a crime then have yourself a great time. Life goes fast and father-time is undefeated last time I checked.
Last edited by Larry C.; 04-12-13 at 06:55 PM.
04-12-13 | 06:47 PM
#9
DVD Talk Godfather
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
What's it cost to rent a theater?
04-12-13 | 07:14 PM
#10
DVD Talk Legend
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
A few grand. In this case, it's cheaper to build a home theater from the ground up with all of the professional equipment and pay the film rental fee than continuously renting a theater.
If I had unlimited resources, I would do the exact same thing. I'd have a home theater that would rival most, if not all, theater experiences. The only thing that I wouldn't be able to imitate in the home would be large format presentations like IMAX. Hell, I'd have a two-auditorium setup. One with your professional equipment, the other with your consumer equipment.
If I had unlimited resources, I would do the exact same thing. I'd have a home theater that would rival most, if not all, theater experiences. The only thing that I wouldn't be able to imitate in the home would be large format presentations like IMAX. Hell, I'd have a two-auditorium setup. One with your professional equipment, the other with your consumer equipment.
04-12-13 | 07:16 PM
#11
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
It seems wasteful to me, but that's because I'm not balling like these people are. But if you got it like that, you got it like that. If you're dirt ass poor, it probably would seem wasteful to see people buy limited/special edition boxsets and such. It's all about the scale, and where you fall on it.
04-12-13 | 07:19 PM
#12
DVD Talk God
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
I'd do it if I won the powerball or something. Not having to deal with idiots at the theater is probably worth that much to me. Plus, if you had to piss or something, you can pause it. That might be a cost-worthy feature in of itself.
04-12-13 | 07:26 PM
#13
Moderator
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
I'm guessing that the average Joe would consider what most of us spend yearly on home entertainment wasteful as well.
04-12-13 | 07:28 PM
#14
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04-12-13 | 07:37 PM
#15
DVD Talk Legend
04-12-13 | 08:38 PM
#18
DVD Talk Legend
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
keeping this in mind if ever presented with a Brewster's Millionsesque scenario.
04-12-13 | 08:41 PM
#19
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
04-12-13 | 09:21 PM
#20
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
If I had $$$$$$ I would do it too. Would be kick-ass to have a movie party with your friends, at your own house, the same day the summer blockbuster comes out, booze and all...
04-12-13 | 09:51 PM
#21
DVD Talk Special Edition
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
Honestly, this sounds to me like it's aimed at people who want to turn their homes into small privately owned home theatres and charge admission.
04-12-13 | 09:55 PM
#22
DVD Talk God
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
My guess is you sign an agreement not to charge people to see movies and might even be stipulations you can't show it to more than a certain amount of people. Sort of like how bars can't just get PPV events from a regular account (they have to pay for special business accounts).
04-12-13 | 09:58 PM
#23
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
This is the electronic equivalent of wiping your ass with money. It's not like it's still 1974 & theatrical movies at home are a rarity. Aren't these people going to feel like dumbasses when that forgettable Tina Fey rom-com comes on Blu-Ray for around $20 in a couple months?
Plus I doubt the biggest blockbusters will even be available due to exhibitor panic. This reminds me of that DirecTV debacle where they tried to offer new releases 3 weeks earlier than DVD for around $60. But it wasn't event movies, it was dreck like Hall Pass & Just Go With It. I can wait on shit like that thank you very much.
Plus I doubt the biggest blockbusters will even be available due to exhibitor panic. This reminds me of that DirecTV debacle where they tried to offer new releases 3 weeks earlier than DVD for around $60. But it wasn't event movies, it was dreck like Hall Pass & Just Go With It. I can wait on shit like that thank you very much.
04-12-13 | 10:18 PM
#24
Banned by request
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
For $500 per, I bet you can get every first run movie put out by every studio. Especially if it's just for a couple or family.
And hey, good for them. I bet if all the members here chipped in, we could build a setup like this.
And hey, good for them. I bet if all the members here chipped in, we could build a setup like this.
04-12-13 | 10:21 PM
#25
DVD Talk Hero
Re: $500 for First run movies in your house?
And for $500 a pop for a new release, that better come with a hot broad giving me head as I watch the film. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.