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Show 2E Urdnesdav The Vdi Like Tuhurn Dert-mhe- Wi I 2") r Switch in film profits will bring big changes Bv St. phf n Vlvukat Knight Riifijer Newipaptn Fnr tin1 fir it time in iu hstury ffotlywuuij will make more monry (hi year - I98i - from n than it will from th i'ers And while that may be good rew-- for film industry actuunlanta it rould dramatical ly affei t the kinds of films we II be watching in the future Analysts paditt that by ytar tnd, the film industry will make about $1 j billiun in profits on domestic movie ticket sales slightly hss than laat year The sale of videocassettes, however will generate about 115 billion. twi e the amount of vi deocassette revenues last year Add the estimated $700 million the film industry will make from the cable television industry and $500 million from network and syndn ated televi sion this year - for a total of $2 7 billion m television-relate- d film revenues and this will be the first year Hollywood earns more money from the small screen than the big si reen Several fac tors have contributed to this switch in profits Annual film grosses in the Lnited States have dipped a little, about $3 8 billion in 1085 compared with 1984 s record $4 billion Coupled with that is tremendous growth in video cassette recorder sales about one million units a month The more VCRs, the greater the demand for movies to watch on them Video rental stores seem to have sprung up on every street corner, and cassette sales have been moving at a record pace Columbia, for example, has already sold more than 410 000 copies o its 1984 comedy hit ' Ghostbusters a record level for a film video cassette with an $80 price tag And Paramount has sold more than 1 4 million copies of "Beverly Hills Cop, again breaking a sales record for tapes costing less than $30 each Hollywood makes a profit each time it sells a video tape to a rental store But it receives no money when that store rents a tape So the industry took unprecedented steps this ytar to entice consumers to buy, rather than rent, its product by oflering scores of popular titles at less than DO each And that campaign has helped contribute to a record sales year .The industry sold about 25 million cassettes last year," says Ira Mayer managing editor of Video Marketing Newsletter, a New York-base- d trade publication "This year were looking at sales of about 57 8 million cassettes And in 1986 we're looking for 83 9 million cassettes, a 43 percent increase " Considering that VCRs are in only about a third of U S. households, home video w ill likely be Hollywood s dominant revenue source by as early as next year .Mayer says the $1 5 billion Hollywood made this year on the sale of videos is twice what it made in 1984 And die studios should reap about $2 billion from home video alone by the end of 1986 - Thats a far faster increase than most people ever imagined it would be last year," he says. Home videos emergence as Hollywoods dominant source of revenue hi)s some industry observers concerned In many ways it s marvelous that tH.-viv- . Theater at the Detroit Institute of V( k"THE gem there is a certain bUndness and visu-Aally homogenous quality that sets in None of the important actions will take place in the corners of the But movie making these days is different If a cinematographer is shooting for the television screen, R anil watch it ' sdys Lliiut Vkdheim dime tor of the Detroit Film into a ee Column 1 season n ofthethe holiday action adventure of If you enjoyed fantasy 'ROMANCING THE STONE you're gonna love 'THE JEWEL OF THE NILE" -- Susan Granger, WMCA RADIO grabbed both sides of my seat and hung on." "I Jeffrey Lyons. SNEAK PREVIEWS ...a smartly written and play fully directed crowd pleaser... "...roller-coaste- r ride of action sequences that never lets up... the best looking, best designed movie of 1985." hair-raisin- g Turner is as radiant as a Christmas tree..." -- Paul Attanano THE WASHINGTON PObT -- William Arnol.l HOST 1NTEL1 ICLWEK SEATTLE "...a good night at the movies... high adventure with witty "...served up with high style... it's fun. ..Douglas and Turner could keep on working in this tradition forever...' one-line- rs ikm and bright repartee." - Roger Ebert Arisen itl Lj r NLW SV 1 EK G - Rax Reed, NEW TWENTIETH JACK NITZSCHE -- TJAN CM QeflOUT SUGGESTEU PGiMKOTM-GUBMC- i, 3CWt w dot at Ur 521- SQUAR aTH SOUTH 4 MICHAEL DOUGLAS - SJVi WJW, U - fvaisi. fTH EAST JOEL DOUGLAS . DIANE THOMAS A lUHCHAR DOUGLAS FOX r JACK 1 JEWEL Of THE , BUSKY ; THE HINES NILE MARK ROSENTHAL & KOIER LAWRENCE LEWIS TEAGUE flftVM li A til Jr1 Q Daily in. 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