Post by andrew8798 on Aug 29, 2013 15:16:35 GMT -5
DVD shipments were down from 357,000 last year to 231,000 this year, but that’s kind of a meaningless stat. The most shipped DVD’s over the past nine months, which is not the most sold, are WrestleMania 29 at 162,000, Best of Nitro at 136,000, The Attitude Era at 134,000, NWO Revolution at 120,000 and Top 100 Moments in Raw history at 101,000. The WrestleMania number is down 24.3% from last year’s DVD as of the same time frame.
Flair’s blood clots in his leg returned, although he’s saying it’s not as bad as before. His reps have told those who he has dates with in the next few weeks that are flights that he can’t risk flying distances and would have to cancel.
Ed Leslie, 56, just got married. It also led to an issue over the weekend at the Miami Marlins game where they had a pro wrestling show organized by Brian Knobs who brought Leslie & Greg Valentine back together. Valentine apparently made a comment to Leslie’s wife about “How far are you along?” and both she and Leslie flipped out on Valentine over the question.
A joint bid between Detroit and Windsor, ONT has come in for WrestleMania 32 in 2016. It’s in the running with Orlando and Dallas. Detroit would be a return to Ford Field, and Detroit is located close enough to Toronto that they’re probably getting a sellout since the last time at Ford Field sold out in advance and Toronto fans are used to driving hours to see major events. Orlando didn’t sell out last time, but it has better weather and will have a largely new stadium. WWE also has a lot of business ties to the city. Dallas has Cowboys Stadium and has never hosted a WrestleMania. The city of Windsor as a sister city agreed to put up $60,000 in taxpayer money to help Detroit land Mania, with the idea it will help the economy in Windsor with tourists. There was some negative press in Windsor about earmarking taxpayer money to help bring WrestleMania to Detroit.
WWE has turned down doing the Bruno Sammartino movie by Scott Rosenfeldt. There are still said to be some interested parties but Rosenfeldt was hoping to reach a deal with WWE. At one point there was hope of announcing it over WrestleMania weekend. Part of the reason may have been that they were looking at something like a $15 million feature film, and WWE is, on its own, only doing low budget DVD movies and when they do bigger movies, they are still low budget and they work with major studios as partners to minimize risk.
Vince McMahon turned 68 on 8/24. His birthday always reminds me of a conversation I had with him a few days before his birthday in 1991. He mentioned his birthday and how he was turning “45 or 46.” I said, well, which one is it. He said, “I honestly don’t know.” I said, “What year were you born?” He said, “1945.” So I said, “So you’re turning 46.” He said, “I guess you’re right.” He had a big party booked at Radio City Music Hall (super expensive) a few days later.
-WON