Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]Because the entire film is too long to present as a single movie. The original 1959 "The Ten Commandments" with Charleton Heston was something like three hours, and they had to put a pee break in the middle to allow people in theaters to use the bathroom and not miss anything. Even if you're going straight to video, you can probably only squeeze about 2-3 hours on a DVD, and if it runs longer than that you either need a double-sized DVD (bad news, it makes it hard for people to identify what the movie is, although some films have done so) or you'd need a multi-DVD set for the movie. And if the movie has multiple DVDs, doesn't it make more sense to release it as, say, three $12 DVDs than one? Even if you raise the price to $20. Realize your average movie costs 9 figures to make. Unless you've got something like "Titanic" you can't afford to spend $300 million on a movie that you release as one item, you're going to need to split it to maximize revenue.[/quote]