The Sept. 11th attacks appear to have had little effect on the TV and movie habits of Americans, according to analysts interviewed for today’s New York Times. “Moviegoing really seems to be, as always, driven by the product in the marketplace rather than any external force,” Exhibitor Relations chief Paul Dergarabedian told the newspaper.
“People are getting back to the normal way of doing things,” said Warner Bros. distribution chief Dan Fellman.
Although in the wake of attacks, video rental stores were reporting a huge upturn in business, particularly for movies with terrorist themes, that business, too, has returned to normal, the Journal observed.
It quoted Scott Hettrick, editor in chief of Video Business magazine as saying, “If you were to look at the top 1,000 rentals of last week and compare it to the top 1,000 rentals from a year ago, you’d find virtually the same mix of films in the same proportions.”
