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There are many different ways for someone to make money off the release of a movie.   The main one, and the one that people pay the most attention to, is the theatrical release.   The movies are put into theaters where the public coalesces.   Individual tickets cost around ten dollars.   That’s a lot of money being made per head.   Another way to make money is through video-on-demand.   This is the main method for getting the people who want to see a movie from the comfort of home without using a physical medium.   Netflix, pay-per-view, hulu, Amazon Prime... These are the methods I’m talking about.   It’s a convenient way for someone to watch a movie and one that can make a good amount of money.   A third way is to sell the physical media.   By this, I mean DVDs, blu-rays, and other home video of that kind.   At this point, that’s mainly for collectors or people who refuse to adapt to a digital world.   These people can have a copy to hold in their hands.   They can show off th

Previously on Work Stories, I wrote about a guy who was walking down the street outside my work.   He was drinking mouthwash and checking all of the parking meters for money.   Yes, it really happened.   Yes, I saw it.   I can’t say you read it because I’m never sure if people have actually read anything that I’ve written.   It doesn’t matter if you read it or not.   It’s what I wrote about.   You reading or not reading it doesn’t change that. This week I’ll tell you another story.   This is the Work Stories.   Of course I’m going to be telling you another story.   If I didn’t tell you another story about what happened to me at work, it would be a failure of my duty to write Work Stories for you to read or not read.   I am supposed to write them to you.   I am supposed to share them with you.   I am supposed to open myself up to you and let you get to know a little bit about my working life.   That’s what this is about.   So let’s get to this week’s Work Story. I’m going t

One of the things that makes people into people is our want or need to categorize things.   Good, bad, dangerous, safe, bright, dark… People like to describe things.   It’s almost an instinct.   The more specific that people can get about their categorizations, the better the people can describe the things.   As a species, humans want knowledge more than almost anything.   They want to know as much as possible about things.   That’s why there are so many advancements in technology, medicine, and journalism.   Each has a different priority, but all are important to people in terms of obtaining knowledge. On a much less important note, this desire to describe and know about things can be translated to film.   The description part is why there are so many genres, subgenres, and sub-subgenres.   Go to Netflix and see for yourself.   People like to categorize as much as they possibly can.   That is why Netflix has categories such as “Romantic Independent Movies about Marriage” an