Blockbuster not buying netflix for 50mill is up there with brian dunkleman

[L&HH]

So they gave the rights back to him for 20K?

It wasn't 20,000 actually it was 350k..well sorta. It was just great timing and a great business move by Lucas. Lucas directed one of the highest blockbuster hits in American Graffitti at the time which made 200 million from just a 700k budget. Lucas was only paid 150k for that. Fox didn't believe in Star Wars but they just did it because they liked what he did with American Graffitti. Lucas was supposed to be paid 500k for Star Wars but he then told them he'll stay at his regular 150k pay-scale if they let him keep all the merchandising rights and all the rights to any sequeals. This sounded like a great deal to fox because they had just lost money in the merchandising business with Dr. Dolittle and they didn't think the movie would make any noise so they didn't care that he kept the rights to the sequel. And the rest is history.

What's crazy is Lucas is probably the wealthiest director and he's only directed 6 movies, 4 of them being Star Wars flicks . Sometimes it pays to believe in yourself.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Stories like this are hilarious and its great for the people who came out on top. The author of Millionaire Fastlane sold his limos.com service to a company for like 1 million and he thought he hit the jackpot. But then he started spending like crazy and the people who bought the site fukked it up and sold it back to him for 250K, all the money he had left. He fixed up the site and sold that shyt again for 7 Ms. Blockbuster woulda probably fucced up Netlfix in the long run.

 

[L&HH]

Stories like this are hilarious and its great for the people who came out on top. The author of Millionaire Fastlane sold his taxi.com service to a company for like 1 million and he thought he hit the jackpot. But then he started spending like crazy and the people who bought the site fukked it up and sold it back to him for 250K, all the money he had left. He fixed up the site and sold that shyt again for 7 Ms. Blockbuster woulda probably fucced up Netlfix in the long run.

the website isn't even about taxis though

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

EDIT: I'm tripping lol...it was limos.com my bad

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

the website isn't even about taxis though

my bad it was limos.com that he made and sold lol

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Didn't netflix have the patent tho? I believe i read that

Patent for what? You can't patent a service

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Nothing....NOTHING compares to this:

http://m.seekingalpha.com/article/82326

Btw look at this shytTY analysis of the banking industry...AS it collapsed.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Blockbuster would've fukked it up. They would've turned it into a restaurant menu instead of a buffet.

Higher ups in companies are usually old..so old that they're out of touch and can't see the future coming. I bet some younger person at blockbuster was like when he heard they weren't buying netflix

 

[Liquid]

so redbox fukkin with Netflix now? And Yea we said both digital downloads and streaming was the future and all signs are still pointing towards that

lemme guess you was one of the dudes complaining you couldn't keep a collection of 1,000 disc to share with your boyfriend

Let the ignorant stay ignorant. Redbox is already looking at streaming as their future, but let people who still have A VCR hooked up tell you the future.