Originally Posted by JuiceMonkey

Big film studios can't afford to invest the money into advertising? I mean it could also do a backfire, like with internet piracy and internet advertising. They will have to use their budget to advertise the movie over and over again. Especially with top 500 type sites (imdb etc..) they lose all of the non north american markets. They could just do a LUMP sum marketing campaign (across all the countries of distro), and then invest the lump sum of profit and make more intrest. I don't see the benefit of the system you have provided.. unless it was an indy or small film. Aeonflux was a fairly big budget flop as well. Especially the word of mouth and *buzz* factors that you get from talking to family over sea/friends etc.. the benefits are endless.