Posted 3:13 PM by Gene

Now that PAUL DRECK'S DREAM is about to become a reality, we can expect NO ONE will tell us the truth about B. O. We still say most of the financial increase is from 3D surcharges, and that the actual attendance figure is marginally higher. And that is how we should measure box office -- by attendance, a number not subject to inflation. We make a big thing of this because PAUL DRECK will be gloating on front-pages soon, vastly helped by imbecilic press agents like David "NON" Germain, giving music to the kind of news-hack self-congratulation that saw its height after Watergate; and because news hacks now deem uncritical hyperbolistic showbiz coverage as central to the industry's profits and undefeated egomania.

We would note too it is now likely that the AHTHOUSE Os-CAR® favorites will mostly be box-office duds. Eight-Octave's massive hit of four weeks ago has TANKED; so have three other supposed best-pic-TYURE nominees. There is NO MARKET for AHTHOUSE movees outside a few big cities. The A-ca-de-MY®'s experiment with ten nominations is about to expose itself as a total idiocy.