how do tv companies buy movies

tali122 | 19:50 Sun 29th May 2005 | How it Works

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how do tv companies buy movies- fixed price ie price list( what are typical prices?) or auction, how many times can they show them, can they sell them to another tv company, do they have exclusive rights to the movie worldwide?
i assume on purchase the contract has a lot of smallprint , regarding these matters

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graemer

I know the answer tali 122 but until you answer your Sexy Beast thread http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Film-and-TV/Question103962.html

I'm not telling you

Hippy

I know the answer to both, Now should I or should I not? Hmm... In the words of the lovely Mr. McShane," I'm bu**ered if I know, you make up your own mind!"

tali122

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yes hippy you are close... more details though

graemer

Come on! You're playing with my mind now, and Hippy I thought more of you than that!

Hippy

The McShane answer is far too rude for a family site like this, save to say that he is the only mainstream actor to have suffered a forced entry in TWO films. Now, is that why he's called "Lovejoy"?

tali122

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its cockney rhyming slang for going for a richard burton , and if we could get back to the answer to my original question , while were here?

Hippy

"To go for a Burton" has been around as an expression since the 15th century in this country ("The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang" Oxford University Press, 1992) and whilst various more modern explanations have been offered, the origin is lost. It is used to mean variously that one of a working party or crew has vanished and his mates do not know his whereabouts, that a particular person had slipped over or suffered an hilarious but harmless mishap, or the more modern and possibly original usage to mean that a person is dead. It does not appear in any list of authentic Cockney rhyming slang that I have seen, the nearest being "Burton on Trent" = "rent" as in "'and it owvvah dahlin! Oiv *** fer ver Burton. Naaa, seeriuslee!"

Hippy

Profanity filter got that word meaning "arrived" spelt in a vernacular fashion. Hahaha!

tali122

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hippy ,do you know of the other film though?

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