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- Blockbuster: Confusing Moves
- Blockbuster made a bid out of nowhere for Circuit City, and when they hesitated, Blockbuster took it public. After prodding, Circuit City has finally opened its books to the impudent movie retailer. But that still doesn’t answer the main question – what exactly does Circuit City have that they want?
- Videos 2008-06-04
- Netflix: Keeping Snail Mail Relevant
- Since Blockbuster backed down and Wal-Mart wimped out, Netflix has made a comeback as the supreme DVD service. But will the new brawl be with Apple and Tivo over the downloadable movie market?
- Videos 2008-03-21
- Chuck Davis: Employing Multiple Revenue Streams
- Chuck Davis is CEO of Fandango, the nation's largest online movie ticketing provider and a top movie content website. In just two years at his post, he has grown Fandango to record size in both revenue and traffic. Davis discusses his success and the necessity of multi-faceted revenue generation in...
- Videos 2008-03-08
- Faster Flash In 12 Steps
- From the executive summary: ‘The paper shares a raft of useful techniques that can be implemented to decrease the file size of flash movies, and thus have them load faster. Flash movies help in loading the Web sites faster and effectively. Experts suggest that usage of animation, graphics, and other...
- White papers 2004-10-15
- Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process
- Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some time, low-cost, high-bandwidth Internet connections and peer-to-peer file sharing networks provide highly efficient distribution media. Many movies are showing up on file sharing...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- Seasonality and Competition in Time: An Empirical Analysis of Release Date Decisions in the U.S. Motion Picture Industry
- Strong seasonality in demand, a short product life cycle, and the absence of any price competition make the release date of first-run movies one of the main strategic decisions taken by moviesÆ distributors. The absence of good observable measures of product quality creates a difficulty in separately identifying the two...
- White papers 2002-08-12
- Play It Again, Sam? Optimal Replacement Policies for A Motion Picture Exhibitor
- Every week, motion picture exhibitors must decide whether to keep or replace the movies playing in their theaters in light of the past week's sales data. This decision is complex because of the dynamic decision environment, the uncertainty of demand, the complex revenue sharing terms between the retailer and the...
- White papers 2001-01-18
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- Movie nonsense
- Most of the western movies of our childhood showed heroes and villains heeled with two handguns. Carrying two handguns could have been a good thing. Sixguns, then, required the prudent to load only five, making l0 at-hand. This 10-round concept could be a stunning shock to today's polymer kids with...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Classic movie hats
- From Baron California Hats In the Old West, it is said you could tell where hombres came from by the style of their hats. Today, you can tell a person's favorite movies by the kind of hat they sport. This is especially true if Baron California Hats is...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- 20 Years ago this month
- Exactly two decades before the second Incredible Hulk movie, we had the original Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, on our cover. Also inside: how Stallone toughened up for Rambo 3. Who would've thought that 20 years later we could run a feature on how Stallone toughened up for Rambo 5: Yo, Afghanistan...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Apollo heights
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's 3 a.m. in Japan and every member of Apollo Heights is wide awake. On a Web chat, guitarist Danny Chavis of the New York-based rock band breezes through Japanese phrases with band mate Hayato Nakao, who actually is in Japan. Huddled around a laptop in...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Family reconnection: non-custodial parents can bridge the void—and be there for their children
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Celeste Chappell-Bates and her son, Christian, enjoy hanging out when they are together. They play Wii in the living room, watch movies on the sofa and attend church on Sundays together. They just don't live together. A few years ago, a judge...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Parents find purpose in their pain: our children didn't die in vain
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Blair Holt was riding the bus on his way home from school. Willie Williams III was leaving a movie theater at a popular shopping mall. Siretha White was attending her birthday party at her aunt's home. All three, under the age of 21, died...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Green scene
- Koston's birthday party came down in the Silver Lake lounge Cha Cha. The Jefferson brothers DJ'd while guests like Nuge, Belton, Braydon, and Aeosta listened to tales of Erik's debut as Budweiser's Limey the Lime. Lizard King was also in evidence gifting all and dropping Intel about a certain big...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Turning carbon into gold
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Noting that contributing to global warming would be "ironic, not to mention wrong," the producers of An Inconvenient Truth announced in June 2006 that they had given $496.80 to NativeEnergy, a well-regarded carbon-offset company. The firm, in turn, said the movie was providing "critical revenues" to...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- The "panties for peace" campaign inspires mixed feelings
- The "panties for peace" campaign inspires mixed feelings. The notion here is that the unpleasant military dictatorship of Burma can be brought down if enough women around the world mail a pair of panties to their local Burmese embassy. According to one of the campaign's websites, some Burmese men harbor...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- The most entertaining showbiz spat of the past few weeks has concerned Clint Eastwood's recent movie Flags of Our Fathers
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most entertaining showbiz spat of the past few weeks has concerned Clint Eastwood's recent movie Flags of Our Fathers. The movie tells the stories of the six men seen raising the Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima in World War II's best-known photograph. None of...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France?
- Wasn't Brigitte Bardot unforgettable, archetypal, Eve herself on the loose in France? Think of her in And God Created Woman. Once she decided to make no more movies, her transformation into angry matriarch was a bit of a shock. First she took up animal rights, and then she began to...
- Articles 2008-06-30
- Fun and games rule the TV ratings
- NEW YORK -- Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime- time competitions -- if little else. Nine of the 20 most-watched programs on the networks last week involved some sort of game, from the Boston Celtics clinching the National Basketball Association title to the eager...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- MormonTimes.com: Vacations with true purpose
- When I was a teenager, my idea of a great summer vacation was to curl up in a chair and read books. If somebody in the family suggested doing something, I often went along. "Want to go bike riding?" Sure. "Want to go out in the backyard...
- Articles 2008-06-26
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