Lies The Film Industry Told Us

And so with the passing of Summer 2007, in regards to the weather I'm still waiting on the arsehole starting, it has been revealed that cinema going is booming, especially in the UK:

Lovely news story with ridiculously large URL

Another lovely little news story

Pretty much the same story a third time over (I'm covering the bases here)

Looks like the doom and gloom from the film industry about illegal downloading killing them is as pish as the idea that TV and VHS would hump them out of existence in the 50's and 80's respectively. Remember, when big businesses claim to be losing money, what they really mean is that they made less than before. They are still turning multi-billion profits. Maybe films would turn more profit if they didn't cost so much, or they were good!

Of course the real reason for films flopping could be down to women having the audacity to actually be cast in leading roles:

Nothing like some casual sexism, eh?

Props to XerxesTheCat in the MST3K Discussion Board for bringing attention to that story.