VGL - Vista Group.

[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...