It a big world with plenty of diversity
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Originally Posted by
youngatheart
Short term prospects may be okay but I think long term it's dismal for the industry. The demographics of current movie goers are baby boomers and young children so movies that do okay are ones that feature 60 year old English actors, Judy Dench, Ian MeKellan etc, and kids films in the school holidays.
There is an entire generation missing in the middle. Some exceptions are when a well hyped block buster comes along - think The Hobbit for eg. - but they are very occasional. Anyone who is 8-45 years old, in the main, know how to illegally download movies and we just don't see them in any great numbers. As baby boomers die off and young kids grow up there's definitely going to be less demand to pay for something that they can get for free.
This from someone who works at the coal face of the film industry...
Whlist that may be true for the bit of the world you live in things are a little different here in Indonesia.
You can buy a pirated copy of any new release movie from a proper shop in a good shopping mall for the equivalent of $1. Despite this so many people want to see the movie on the big screen they form queues so far in advance and they get so long that after two failed attempts I gave trying to go see movies.
In Malaysia also, any decent movie fills the cinema show after show after show.
So maybe, globally, thing still have an upside.
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Paper Tiger
Discs:
This in not an endorsement of the Vista IPO.
DYOR.
Try the salted popcorn.
Just checking up on the ones no-one talks about
This one only occasionally trades but the price is now over $4 and thus it sits on a one year forward P/E of about 40 (ie against the prospectus $8M1 profit for the year ending 31 Dec 2015).
Isn't that strange? I certainly do not understand it.
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Paper Tiger
Full Year Just Released - All Seats $4.55
Results as expected:
They say they are on track for 2015:
Still seems to be a very high share price to me :confused:
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Paper Tiger
Another in the occasional series
Looks to be recovering steadily from the decline to $4.90 in early October.
Whilst I, as always, am fairly shocked at the price this trades at, I am not going to complain.
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Paper Tiger
The Good Dinosaur di pawagam hara ini
Back to the all-time high of $6.05 and a market capitalization of $484M.
It does not matter how often I check, the target for revenue and profit for this year is still $13M2 and $8M1 respectively.
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Paper Tiger
Disc: Go to the movies about once a week.
Danish dramas are the best
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Originally Posted by
Toulouse - Luzern
Hi
Not too many posts about this stock.
Global perspective ...
Sneaky peak, TL observed a Vista rep going about his business in Copenhagen ...
But did you see Mads Mikkelsen?
or Sofie Gråbøl?
I watched the movie Captain Fantastic staring Viggo Mortensen yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. 4 and a bit stars
I dropped these earlier this year.
I still can not get my head around the price this thing trades at, even given the projection of future revenues and profits.
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Paper Tiger
Some sort of fantasy movie
Gave the old documents a once over for old times sake and apart from the money for the China thing (I notice they are falling for the old 'the check is in the post' routine by the way) the actual EPS from continuing operations was like 9c.
OK I no the analysts reckon this is going to grow to 40c in 3 or 4 years but as usual the price this thing is trading at is something I can not get my head around.
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Paper Tiger
Disc: Failed to score free tix to the premier of Rangoon :(
Bargain at half the price
VGL Announcement
2 for 1 share split coming to a screen near you on the 24th.
Sitting in the middle of the third row from the back with a bucket of Tuna flavoured popcorn.
Paper Tiger