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BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Grover & Lowry |
Imagine Sony On Steroids Howard Stringer, Sony's vice-chairman, is shopping for movies and music. But will content sell gizmos? |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 Ronald Grover |
Why Sony Is Now A Bit Player At MGM Private equity backers have taken control of the studio Howard Stringer coveted. |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Sony on Lion Safari Sony is looking to buy MGM for $5 billion. What kind of plot will ultimately unfold? |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2004 Ben McClure |
Comcast Wins in Sony-MGM Deal Comcast shareholders should be thrilled with the Sony-MGM deal. |
InternetNews September 14, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
How Much Hollywood For Comcast? Cable giant Comcast boosts video-on-demand offerings through a deal with Sony and considers a stake in MGM. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2004 Lawrence Meyers |
Libraries Aren't Boring to Sony Sony's purchase of MGM positions it for the future of home entertainment delivery, with the ability to generate some pretty healthy cash flow to boot. |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Grover & White |
Creditors Seek Leads for MGM, the Sequel The studio's creditors, holding nearly $4 billion in debt left over from a 2005 buyout, weigh running the backlot themselves. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2004 Steven Mallas |
MGM Waiting for Final Cut MGM has yet to be sold to some deep-pocketed conglomerate. Shareholders won't mind a tug of war for its library. |
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Grover & Lowry |
Will Bronfman Have The Last Laugh? If piracy keeps falling and Web sales keep climbing, Warner Music has a chance. |
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. |
CFO December 1, 2003 Roy Harris |
Lights! Camera! Action! Buying Universal puts GE in the movie business. Its plan for synergies might make a good screenplay. |
BusinessWeek September 4, 2006 Ronald Grover |
Duds In The Water The "smart money" sees slim returns from films. |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Sony Bags a Lion Sony emerges the victor in the struggle to purchase the MGM library. If one is interested in Time Warner or Comcast or Sony, one should have other reasons to invest instead of complete reliance on the MGM library buy. |
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Edwards & Burrows |
Daggers Drawn Over DVDs How Sony gained an edge in its fierce battle with Microsoft over video formats. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Media: Big Media Will Get Even Bigger The urge to merge and a flood of digital media gizmos will keep the industry jumping. Music piracy is easing, but movie downloads cost Hollywood $3 billion a year. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
MGM Stays in the Picture A very large and valuable pile of assets now stands to change hands, possibly quite soon. |
Wired June 2000 Frank Rose |
You Oughtta Be in HTML Every week, another Hollywood exec bails to a startup. Is anyone going to stick around to build the future of the movie business? |
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Emily Thornton |
Going Private Hotshot managers are fleeing public companies for the money, freedom, and glamour of private equity. |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 |
Edgar Bronfman, on the Record Warner Music Group's CEO discusses why it was the right time to go public, the myth of his search for redemption, and Vivendi under Messier. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
Warner Music Prepares for Cuts A published report confirms suspicions that many music jobs are at risk. |
Salon.com June 22, 2000 Gregg Kilday |
Parlez-vous Universal? French media giant Vivendi takes over Universal Pictures. Cue the Jerry Lewis flicks? |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Ronald Grover |
Bothered And Bewildered At Sony Bewitched and other movies haven't done the trick at the box office for Sony. Can the special-effects film Stealth? |
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. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Tom Lowry |
The Next Generation The next generation of media executives is waiting in the wings to inherit an industry in upheaval. They grew up embracing technology but know all too well that pirates are around every corner. |
CFO January 1, 2005 Tim Reason |
The Answer Is Private What kind of buyers and sellers made the greatest strides in deal-making for 2004? |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Cheaper Movies Paramount for Viacom Management might favor lower-budget films. Shareholders should hope so. |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Grover & Edwards |
Game Wars Who will win your entertainment dollar, Hollywood or Silicon Valley? Last year the worldwide video game industry overtook movie box-office receipts, and some in Hollywood are racing to forge alliances with the techies. |
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? |
Knowledge@Wharton |
The Mega-media Business Model: Doomed to Fail, or Just Ahead of its Time? Today's mega-media companies -- AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Vivendi, Disney, Bertelsmann, Sony -- may not be tomorrow's. While they all became behemoths because of past mergers among big media companies, it's very likely some of them will change into different entities. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Clear Channel Frosts Fidelity The company's largest shareholder is making noise about an insufficient per-share price. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
Lions Gate Roaring Along The film studio is finally producing profit and free cash flow. The stock has been roaring ahead 94% over the last 52 weeks. |
CFO August 1, 2005 Kate O'Sullivan |
Gone Clubbing As private-equity firms band together to buy large companies, they raise the pressure on CFOs. |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 Grover & Lowry |
Squeezing Every Dime from DVDs With consumers flocking to low-cost Netflix and Redbox, Hollywood wants a bigger share of the profits. |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Grover & White |
Hollywood Looks to China for Movie Money China hopes its investments in Hollywood will help build its own entertainment industry. |
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. |
CFO April 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty |
The Buyout Binge Private-equity firms are gobbling up everything in sight. How long can it last? |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2011 Anders Bylund |
Apple's Secret Marketing Machine How does Apple get tons of big-screen product placement while claiming not to pay for any of it? |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Disney Mousy About Movies Disney reiterates its reluctance to play the big-budget movie game. Good call, there's a better way. |
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Ronald Grover |
Gates Tries For A Hollywood Ending Tinseltown execs may still love a tale of redemption. But it may take more than a new script for Microsoft to remake itself from villain to hero when it comes to digital rights management software and the media industry. |
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 December 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hooray for Blu-Ray! Disney validates the next generation DVD technology by promising to support Sony's Blu-Ray platform. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2004 Phil Wohl |
MGM Readies for Close-Up Pretty first-quarter results have the firm looking good. |
BusinessWeek October 30, 2006 Emily Thornton |
Gluttons At The Gate Private equity are using slick new tricks to gorge on corporate assets. A story of excess. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 Ronald Grover |
A War That Hollywood Can't Afford As DVD sales slow, any delay of next-generation must-haves will cost the studios. What should Hollywood do about the battle between Sony and Toshiba over high-definition DVD formats? |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 Tom Lowry |
Warner's Oldies But Goodies Can legends Ertegun, Stein, and Holzman find new stars to make Warner Music sing? |
Wired February 2003 Frank Rose |
The Civil War Inside Sony Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed. |