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rbbbff · 2 years ago

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This is an informational post about my experience with the 5/24 HSLOT 22 US Amex presales. Hoping it might help someone buying during verified fan presale tomorrow or general sale weds. @cuethetommo has great ticket insights and advice on their blog that I recommend reviewing and will reblog. i know this process is extremely anxiety-inducing and truly a capitalistic minefield and my heart goes out to anyone struggling with it/the unfairness/the prices/the US-centric tour sched/all the fucked up components that make this up! and yes i agree that Louis should be scolding Harry for this ticketing horrorshow every chance he can get.

TL;DR out of 3 presale invites I secured tickets to 2 shows, mid lower bowl in Austin ($199ea) and pit for MSG last show night ($199ea). i consider this a successful outing.

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Got presale invites for 3 shows: Sept 21 (MSG), Oct 2 (Austin), Oct 13 (Chi). I think I signed up for 10-11 shows during presale registration so maybe 30% success rate there.

The Austin & Chicago show presales were at the exact same time (?? why.) Due to date and venue preference I focused on Austin. Cleared & blocked my schedule for this time, got in the waiting room 10min early as advised, and got into the queue at 658 people in front of me. I wanted to get close seated tickets (like first ~3 rows lower bowl), so when I got in I started looking at those, while also trying to add pit tickets to my cart just in case. (Note: Even after re-entering the queue and trying for ~40min, I did not get pit tickets for Austin. Maybe this is obvious but it seems like if you want pit tickets, focus on snagging those first).

Every.single.ticket pit or otherwise i tried to add to my cart for 25min straight was "snagged by another fan". maddening. Finally found 3 seats which were exactly what i wanted (yay!) first row seated! and clicked through to checkout... only to see that Those tickets were $1144 EACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IN THE PLATINUM PRICING. Abandoned in cart.

Back into the bloodbath and ultimately checked out with 3 mid lower bowl tix @ $199ea. Sec 119: $1144, Sec 117: $199. Okayyyy.

20 minutes later i queued for MSG, prayed and refreshed, refreshed right at <1min in the waiting room, got into the queue with only 258 people ahead of me. Entered, went right for 3 pit tix, got them on first try (!!!! PURE LUCK PLUS REFRESHING TIL MY FINGERS HURT) for $199ea and checked out breathing a gigantic sigh of RELIEF and gleeee.

Final thoughts:

this was my first REAL go-round for this; all my previous harry tickets (2019-2022) have been aftermarket purchases. $199 is not cheap but it is the cheapest Harry ticket I have purchased so far. I envy the twitter stans who can get aftermarket face value tix and not get scammed tbh, couldnt be me

Even if someone had an unlimited budget this process also requires the privilege of time/flexibility of schedule and just plain old LUCK

Sorry i cant share more insights into Chicago since TM really fucked me in making that sale the exact same time as Austin??? But by the time I logged in there seemed to be an extreme few amt of tickets left, and they also seemed more expensive than the Austin tix (but less so than MSG).

Austin venue is smallest (15K) with MSG being mid (20K) and United Center largest (23K) so thats a good thing to consider in terms of how close the seats are, etc

it is insane to me that a pit ticket and a mid lower bowl ticket are the same price, and a seat BETWEEN the two is over $1K. fuck dynamic pricing.

in the same fuck-dynamic-pricing vein: the equivalent mid lower bowl ticket that i got for $199 in Austin was $900 at MSG. Ugh.

it may mean nothing but i think continuously refreshing your TM screen while in the last ~1min of the waiting room has a chance to secure you a higher spot in the queue. could be wishful thinking. also ritualistic chanting seemed to help. kidding... or is it?

#i hope this helps #SOMEONE out there #i used all the nervous energy from the process to write this post #fuck ticketmaster #ticket stuff #also LOL that exactly during this process 5 more MSG shows were added #talk about manufactured scarcity sheeeeesh

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orbemnews · 4 years ago

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Amazon Moves From Film Industry’s Margins to the Mainstream Sacha Baron Cohen may have been going a little mad. It was August 2020, the pandemic was raging and his secret production had shut down. He was determined to reprise his role as Borat in a feature film designed to satirize the Trump administration ahead of the November election. But how? First he persuaded Universal Studios to allow him to shop his incomplete movie. Then he cobbled together an hour of footage. (The infamous scene with Rudolph W. Giuliani had yet to be filmed.) Hulu was interested. So was Netflix. But Amazon Studios was the one most committed to getting the movie out in time, no matter the cost. Amazon spent $80 million to acquire “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” a decision that incurred extra expenses because of Covid protocols, test screenings in New Zealand — one of the few places in the world at the time where the company could gather a group of people in a dark movie theater — and a last-minute dash to incorporate all the gonzo footage before the film’s release on Oct. 23. (Mr. Cohen was cutting it close, still shooting three weeks before he had to deliver the movie.) “They broke every rule for us,” Mr. Cohen said in a phone interview. “There was a certain delivery schedule that they felt was necessary, and they halved that time. They realized the imperative of getting this out before the election. And they changed their procedures completely to help us do this. I’m really, really grateful.” Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon Studios, is also grateful. When the Golden Globes air on Sunday, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” will be competing for three awards: best comedy or musical, best actor and best supporting actress (Maria Bakalova). Other Amazon acquisitions, including Regina King’s directorial debut, “One Night in Miami,” and “Sound of Metal,” starring Riz Ahmed, are also contending for prizes. Those accolades, coupled with the cultural impact “Borat” has enjoyed across the globe, have significantly altered the perception of Amazon Studios’s film division in Hollywood and among Amazon’s more than 150 million Prime subscribers. (The studio, which does not disclose viewer numbers, will say only that tens of millions of subscribers watched “Borat.”) Once a home for indie darlings such as “Manchester by the Sea” and “The Big Sick,” Amazon Prime Video is transforming itself into a place for commercial films with broad appeal that can travel internationally. It’s all part of Ms. Salke’s plan to turn Prime into a service people subscribe to for more than free shipping for their paper towels. “We had seen firsthand when Amazon gets behind a piece of content, just how big the muscle is that they are capable of flexing,” said David Ellison, chief executive of Skydance Media and the producer of Amazon’s “Jack Ryan” series. He recently sold the films “Without Remorse” and “The Tomorrow War” to Amazon. “With ‘Borat,’ they showed they could do that with films, too,” he said. Amazon has thrived in the last year, with profits increasing some 200 percent since the pandemic began. That success has extended to its film business. Like other streaming services, it has been able to snatch up big-budget, star-driven films that studios have been forced to shelve in response to the closing of movie theaters. Netflix, Apple, Disney+ and Hulu have all benefited from the studios’ woes, but Amazon has been one of the most aggressive in acquiring new movies. In September, Ms. Salke acquired “Without Remorse” — starring Michael B. Jordan and based on a Tom Clancy series — for $105 million. It will debut at the end of April. The following month, it paid $125 million for the rights to “Coming 2 America,” which will premiere on March 5. Eddie Murphy was initially hesitant about taking the sequel to his much-beloved film to Amazon, but Ms. Salke and others say he was reassured by the performance of “Borat.” In January, the company made its biggest bet yet, paying $200 million to acquire the Chris Pratt-led action film “The Tomorrow War,” which Paramount was set to release. To date, it stands as Amazon’s largest financial commitment in acquiring a feature film. The company hopes to debut it on Prime Video this summer. “We don’t have a huge bench of big blockbuster movies in the works,” Ms. Salke said with a laugh. “So for us it was opportunistic to be able to lean into that.” With more players than ever joining the streaming fray (Paramount+, anyone?), the pace at which new content is delivered is an issue every service worries about. Netflix threw down the gauntlet in January when it announced its 2021 strategy of delivering one new movie per week, which followed WarnerMedia’s announcement that all of Warner Bros.’s 2021 theatrical films would debut in theaters and on its HBO Max streaming service at the same time. With so much volume being offered by those two companies, along with Disney’s recent announcement that at least 80 percent of its 100 new projects would be earmarked for Disney+, the only way to compete is to go big. “It’s going to be really interesting over the next three years,” said Roeg Sutherland, one of the heads of media finance for Creative Artists Agency. “With platforms programming one new movie a week, this is fueling a competitive marketplace for high-end, independently financed films.” At the Sundance Film Festival last month, Apple paid a record $25 million for rights to the independent film “Coda.” Ms. Salke pushes back on the idea that her plans to broaden her offerings is a reaction to her competitors. Rather, she said, it’s the culmination of a strategy that began at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, when as a newcomer to the film world, she spent $46 million to acquire four films, including “Late Night” with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, and the feel-good movie “Brittany Runs a Marathon.” Before joining Amazon, Ms. Salke spent her career in television, shepherding hits like “Modern Family” and “Glee” at Fox and “This Is Us” at NBCUniversal. After her Sundance shopping spree, she was mocked by some film insiders as an out-of-touch television executive overspending to acquire niche movies. She was criticized for paying $13 million for “Late Night,” when it grossed $15.4 million at the box office. “Brittany Runs a Marathon” earned just $7 million. That commentary still seems to sting Ms. Salke, though she argues that she released the films theatrically only to appease the filmmakers. The movies’ real metric of success, she said, was how they played on the streaming service. “Those movies all kept coming out as No. 1,” said Ms. Salke, referencing the films’ performances on Amazon Prime. “Every time we launched one, the next one would eclipse the next one. We were training our audience to know that we would have big original films that were more commercial on Prime Video. It’s a little bit of an ‘If you build it, they will come’ strategy.” But what happens to that plan once the pandemic is over and studios are no longer willing to sell their movies to streaming platforms? Amazon has some 34 films in various stages of production around the world and Ms. Salke said the company was committed to spending upward of $100 million on a production if merited. (Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, is stepping down as the company’s chief executive later this year, but the studio isn’t expecting any big changes when Andy Jassy takes the reins.) The Culver City, Calif., complex is still being built and, if anything, investment has increased. Ms. Salke points to Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming film about Lucy and Desi Arnaz, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, as a potential hit. There’s also George Clooney’s film “The Tender Bar,” starring Ben Affleck, and an LGBTQ romantic drama called “My Policeman,” featuring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin (“The Crown”). “The new news is that you will see us embrace some bigger projects going forward that are self-generated,” she said. In Ms. Salke’s mind, this was always the place where Amazon Film was going to land. And there is a newfound confidence to her outlook as she celebrates her third anniversary as the head of the studio. In addition to her recent acquisition spree, she’s made overall content deals with Mr. Jordan and the actor and musician Donald Glover, which she says will reinforce her mission to burnish Amazon’s reputation as a talent-friendly place. With its healthy subscription base, Amazon is attracting those in Hollywood who are interested in the company’s global reach but also curious about the company’s other businesses that have the potential to expand a star’s brand beyond film and television. Mr. Jordan, for one, said his overall content deal would allow him to explore areas other studios can’t offer: specifically fashion, music and podcasts. His portrayal of the physical incarnation of Amazon’s Alexa during a Super Bowl ad was an example. And Ms. King got a kick out of just how pervasive Amazon’s marketing of her film was whenever she logged into the company’s e-commerce site. “When I’m on Amazon, buying doggie bags, and my film pops up at the top, that’s pretty amazing,” she said. “That’s like, wow! Every single day I am getting a text from someone who saw the movie that probably wouldn’t have seen it if it didn’t pop up in their shopping queue.” Source link Orbem News #Amazon #Film #Industrys #mainstream #Margins #Moves

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roesart · 3 years ago

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Tagged by @xraykinny

1. Why did you choose your URL?

Roe = me, Art = art.

Roe’s art = my art

Roesart

2. Any side blogs?

On this account yes, one that was used as a portfolio but it’s old and crappy now. and another i was using as an inspiration mood board of sorts for my RPG plans.

i do have numerous rp blogs.

3. How long have you been on tumblr?

since oct 2012 but i had an account before then but i had wiped it and made this one. so i don’t remember

4. Do you have a queue tag?

not that i recall

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

to post art.

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

Because i was really proud of that chibi that i drew. it is my fully organic Neon J design.

7. Why did you choose your header?

I was proud of that DTIYS i had done for twitter. Neon J again

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

this Chibi Maxie.

2,073 notes

9. How many mutuals do you have?

around 50?

10. How many follows do you have?

1,407 though how many of those are still active, i don’t know

11. How many people do you follow?

184. i like to keep my dash controlled.

12. Have you ever made a shitpost?

this maybe?

13. How often do you use tumblr each day?

I check it every day.

14. Did you have a fight with another blog once?

Fuck i don’t remember

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

eh. i don’t mind seeing them, but i do what i want.

16. Do you like tag games?

I enjoy them from time to time. so do feel free to tag me in some.

17. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

everyone is in their own way. i dunno. i don’t really care about numbers. i’m just glad tumblr isn’t completely dead.

18. Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Fuck around and find out.

Tagging: @catherinearbour

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yourmichaelhernandezposts-blog · 5 years ago

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