Category: media

“The vote is largely symbolic, however, because President Obama has promised to veto any legislation reversing the rules.”

“Network executives are scrambling after the Latino TV market in response to recently released census numbers. Pardon them for drooling. The U.S. Latino population, which soared 43 percent during the past decade to more than 50 million, is considered a gold mine.”

“While theatergoers have been feeding our addiction to the high of the live, a new kind of “live” has been created in the mad laboratories full of digital-marketing test tubes: theater being presented sort-of live — in strictly limited runs — in movie houses around the country and the world.”

“Once international superstars, Jim Henson’s Muppets have not had a major box-office hit in 32 years. That was “The Muppet Movie,” which took in $65 million for the Associated Film Distribution company in 1979, or about $197 million in today’s currency.”

“With the launch of a new premium video-on-demand initiative that will get movies from the theater to the TV screen a lot quicker around the corner, the nation’s largest theater chains are waging a public war with the Hollywood studios involved.”

Under our unsuspecting noses, there are loads of good sitcoms, all fighting for a spot in the Elite Eleven.

“While many of us still go to movie theaters, the 24-hour movie now also comes to us, though sometimes us may be just one person sitting alone at a desk or on a train and staring at a glowing box. This new portable movie is convenient, and certainly wired-up companies like the new ways they can pump images to your devices. But it isn’t moviegoing as we have understood it for most of history.”

“Today ‘someone’ has become a blogosphere, where information is currency, and any aspect of any movie is usually available online as soon as the closing credits of the first screening have rolled. Maybe sooner.”

“The issue is more about the shifting balance of power between studios and theatres. If 60 days works, why not reduce it to 30, or even video on the same day as the theatrical release? By cannibalizing their own profits early, the studios could be hurting the entire film business in the long run.”

“With an 8.6% same store sales decline in the third quarter of 2010, we are skeptical that the microeconomics of the more viable stores can be revamped simply by crossing-selling Dish Network or cloning Netflix’s strategy.”