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HBS Working Knowledge
October 3, 2005
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Box Office Power of Stars An interview with Anita Elberse who researched the effect of box office stars on a studio's overall profitability and published the results in the working paper, The Power of Stars: Creative Talent and the Success of Entertainment Products.   |
CRM
December 2011
Eric Barkin |
The Monday Morning Numbers on Movie Marketing How international growth, social media, and a decline in DVD sales are changing the film industry's marketing strategies. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Michael White |
This Summer, Hollywood Could Use a Hero Hollywood will roll out big-budget movies almost weekly this summer in an effort to erase a $500 million box-office deficit so far in 2011. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons Why Comcast's $60 Movies Will Fail The cable giant is testing on-demand rentals of nearly first-run features. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 17, 2011
Kim Girard |
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2012
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IMAX Is on Cruise Control The big screen leader scores well with the latest "Mission: Impossible" movie. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
Fast Company
Nicole LaPorte |
"The Interview" Is A VOD Perception-Changer, Not A VOD Game-Changer Long regarded as a kind of consolation prize (or dumping ground) for troubled films, or else a platform for small, specialty films that might not resonate with all of America, Video-on-demand suddenly has a new, glitzy glamour. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Has Hollywood Seen the Digital Light? A consortium of big-name movie studios has come up with a bold, new digital distribution plan for new movies. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Box-Office Blues Banished The summer should provide a lot of opportunity for the various motion picture studio operating segments to bring in the bucks. Investors, now's the time to shop. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Building a Better Movie Business It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble? |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Ari Karpel |
New Films for New Audiences Most blockbusters target a homogenous audience. Denson-Randolph, a vet of Starbucks and Magic Johnson Entertainment, selects smaller movies to draw diverse crowds into the nation's second-largest movie-theater chain. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2006
W.D. Crotty |
Will "Bubble" Bust Cinemas? A maverick filmmaker and a billionaire duo seek to shake up Hollywood by simultaneously releasing a new movie to DVD, cable TV and movie theaters. Is this the paradigm shift that kills the suffering movie theater industry? Investors, take note. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Russell Wintner |
Bits on the Big Screen Computer servers and digital projectors are about to replace the canisters of film and spinning sprockets of the world's movie theaters |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
No $60 Video Rentals for You Comcast and its Universal movie arm back out of a plan for $59.99 video rentals during their theatrical runs. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Movie Studios vs. Jolly Rogers Major movie studios are banding together against piracy. While the goals are perfectly understandable, investors should hope that the studios keep a careful eye on controlling piracy while encouraging new means of digital distribution for their content. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Scott Kirsner |
Maverick Mogul Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban is questioning everything about the film business - and naturally ticking a lot of people off. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
David Miller |
Movie Studios Offer Downloadable Films Now playing on a PC near you: downloadable movies available for purchase on the same day they're released on DVD. But the price - up to double the cost of DVDs - may be too steep for consumers. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Netflix Killer? Yeah, Right. If Hollywood wants to kill Netflix, they're not shooting where the company is. That worked much better for Gretzky. |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Theaters Are Being Abandoned. Time to Sell? Consider these movie stocks. |
Fast Company
Evie Nagy |
Here's The Big Problem With Sony Releasing "The Interview" On Demand After a message from the hackers threatened violent attacks on movie theaters if the film was released, all the major theater chains pulled out of showing it. Many suggested that Sony should immediately release the movie on the Internet. |
Wired
April 2005
Xeni Jardin |
The Cuban Revolution The maverick billionaire blogger wants to take the film out of the film industry. And his all-digital vision is coming soon to a screen near you. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Kate Plourd |
Lights, Camera, Finance! For movie studios, a boom in ticket sales is not translating to easy access to financing. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Tom Lowry |
"People Are Willing to Pay" Viacom CFO Richard Bressler talks about developing new business models for media in the Digital Age while protecting content. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Hollywood Still Doesn't Get It UltraViolet falls just short of bringing movie studios into the cloud era. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lights, Camera, Stocks The big screen offers up big ideas for small investors: IMAX... Access Integrated Technologies... Amazon.com... Pixar... DreamWorks... |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
Grover |
What's Next, Free Popcorn? Hollywood is scrambling to find new ways to market its summer blockbuste movies. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
Why the iPad Is Great for Netflix For the first time in seven years, DVD sales trailed movie theater sales in 2009. Enter Apple's iPad to the rescue. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2006
Steven Mallas |
News Corp. Has Faith Fox looks to the heavens for shareholder value. The company's Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment unit revealed plans to target the faith-based marketplace. |
BusinessWeek
June 19, 2006
Ronald Grover |
The Pornographers vs. The Pirates Smut giants are showing mainstream Hollywood how to fight back. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Joel Johnson |
Can Blu-Ray Really Keep Up With Classic Film Transfers in HD? Is it possible for older movies that were shot before high-definition existed to really be HD? |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Comcast at the Movies Comcast is interested in distributing movies on the same day of release. Will it ever come to pass? |
eCFO
April 2001
Russ Banham |
The Terrors of Tinseltown Peer-to-peer file-sharing, which enables users to swap digital content, could cut the major studios out of the distribution loop. Here's a look at the CFOs behind the Napsterization of Hollywood... |
InternetNews
July 19, 2006
Clint Boulton |
CinemaNow: Download, Burn, Watch Online movie service provider CinemaNow became the first company to allow movies piped over the Internet to be securely burned onto a DVD. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's New Circle of Life The family entertainment giant plots four more films for 3-D rerelease. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Jet Li, I'm Sorry Movie theaters are having a hard enough time filling their seats, and now the studios are using their ads in the newspaper movie listings to promote upcoming DVD releases? |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Nixing Netflix Would Be a Huge Mistake Time Warner wants to delay releases to Netflix or charge more. Either way, Time Warner loses. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
AMC's Coming Attraction The movie theater chain gets ready to go public under a kinder climate. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
October 24, 2005
Peter Burrows |
Hollywood Holds Its Breath The iPod - and Disney's blessing - could create a mass audience for video on the go. |
BusinessWeek
September 11, 2006
Ronald Grover |
The Empire Strikes Back Wal-Mart sees a threat from iTunes downloads. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Now Playing: Digital Disarray Hollywood's piracy fears are stifling online video expansion. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Mark N. Vamos |
Editor's Letter: Hooray for Hollywood There is a revolution taking place in the film industry. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thinking Outside the Box Office When it comes to new releases and DVDs, Hollywood's future may be very different from its present. The point is that movie theaters don't have to die unless they want to. For investors, there may even be some attractive situations here. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
An Upcoming Wave of Hits Trends in the box office point to more smash hits rather than more choices. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 24, 2006
Julia Hanna |
The Life of the Indy Producer As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. |
Science News
December 2, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Scripting Boffo Box Office A computer model can help select movie scripts that lead to success at the box office. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Entertainment Industry in 2015 Gaze into an unshackled, content-happy, entertainment-filled future as we take a look at what entertainment may be like in 2015. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Michael White |
Hollywood: Organized Crime Goes to the Movies International gangs are cornering the market for pirated DVDs. |
