Külföldi torrent oldalak BTWorld Village Roadshow repeats a costly $5 million mistake

IT APPEARS that even a $5 million mistake wasn’t enough to make Village Roadshow reconsider its global release date for films.
In 2014, Australian audiences got a cinematic release of The Lego Movie 54 days after it had screened in the US.

Aussies decided they didn’t want to wait almost two months to see the film, so they turned to piracy — a common practice for most delayed content. With The Lego Movie on course to become the most pirated release of 2014, Village Roadshow chief executive Graham Burke acknowledged the costly mistake.

“We estimate that (piracy of) The Lego Movie cost somewhere between $3.5 million and $5 million in sales,” he said, reportedThe Australian.
“It was doubly painful because Lego was produced in Australia. Piracy not only impacts profits, but if unchecked will impede new business models and growth.”

Mr Burke went on to say that Village Roadshow would make an effort to distribute all major films at the same time as the US release, in an attempt to combat rampant online piracy. This week Village Roadshow announced on Twitter that Australia would be getting Lego: Batman movie on March 30, 2017.

This would be great if it wasn’t some 48 days later than the February 10 release date for the US.

While a slightly shorter period, the logic behind repeating history and delaying the release is yet to be seen. Maybe Village Roadshow is just hoping really hard that Aussies will wait for the release instead of pirating the film. Unfortunately, the likelihood of this happening is slim to none. Adding to Village Roadshow’s dubious approach is the fact that, just like the first film, Lego: Batman movie was made in Australia by creative digital studio Animal Logic.