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The Motley Fool
April 13, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Lights, Camera, Disclosure! Should you know what celebrities make if you invest in a public media company? Simply put, knowing details of the various pay packages of highly compensated stars on movie and TV projects allows the media investor further insight into the workings of these companies.   |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Cheaper Movies Paramount for Viacom Management might favor lower-budget films. Shareholders should hope so. |
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. |
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
September 14, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Redstone Wants Results Sumner Redstone sure is the whip-cracker these days, isn't he? He already went through a trying time with the old Viacom, which he patiently waited for Wall Street to appreciate and value accordingly. This time he's not waiting around. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Moonves at the Movies? CBS to enter the movie business? CEO Leslie Moonves laid out his theoretical plans for such an operation. Um, what about the split? If I owned CBS, I'd be scratching my head right about now... |
BusinessWeek
September 4, 2006
Ronald Grover |
Duds In The Water The "smart money" sees slim returns from films. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2006
Steven Mallas |
Fool on the Street: Viacom's New Vector New Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman reveals his plans for growth. If he can leverage the main strengths of the company's cable-network division and brand portfolio, he should be able to create synergies between its departments. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Disney Studios Need Some Magic The Mouse's studios are set to lose as much as $300 million in the fourth quarter. Disney really is a frustrating stock at times. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2005
Lawrence Meyers |
A Marvel-ous Movie Plan Marvel's new deal with Paramount holds the potential to be enormous, for the company and its shareholders alike. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Nothing Marvelous in This Setback Marvel's Fantastic Four sees its release date moved from July 1 and could hurt their upside potential on the project. Shareholders are probably praying that Fantastic Four will be just as fantastic on July 8. |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006 |
The Director's Cut Steven Spielberg discusses the breakup with Universal, his new pals at Paramount, and Indiana Jones 4. |
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
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
August 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The New Hollywood Diet Film, as an art form, isn't endangered just yet, but it is being cage trained. Over just the past few weeks you have seen Disney scale back its live action productions and Time Warner open up a division to produce cheaper direct-to-video titles. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Disney's Summertime Blues Disney's movies are slumping at the box office -- along with the industry as a whole but investors needn't worry. |
Fast Company
August 10, 2011
Jay Woodruff |
Rich Ross Makes Moves (and Movies) at Disney Innovation in Hollywood isn't for the faint of heart. Meet Rich Ross, the outsider (from television, no less!) tugging Disney's movie studio into the 21st century. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Marvel's New Superpower: Lobbying Hollywood studios want tax breaks to keep them from moving film and TV productions to tax-friendlier locales. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: HD-DVD, the Headless Chicken Blu-ray now commands about 70% of the high-definition DVD market, and it's only a matter of time before Viacom's Paramount and General Electric's NBC Universal leave the HD-DVD camp, too. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Movie Download Dreams and Dilemmas Digital downloading of feature-length movies may be an idea whose time has come. While the party may have started, there's still a lot of work and planning left to do. |
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
September 2, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Disney's Global Conquest The Buena Vista International unit achieved more than $1 billion in box office gross. With the stock having seen much better days, the news was not as impressive as it sounds. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Lemony's a Lemon for Viacom Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events is having an unfortunate time at the box office. Viacom shareholders were certainly hoping for something more. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2011
Elizabeth Moran |
How Smart is Viacom's New Venture? A fledgling animation division could help Paramount recruit a new generation of loyal moviegoers. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Grover & Fixmer |
The High Cost of Celebrities Gone Wild The bad behavior of stars such as Charlie Sheen can have a big impact beyond the bad press. Just ask CBS and Warner Bros. |
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? |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007
Ronald Grover |
Paramount & DreamWorks: Splitsville? Could Paramount Pictures lose Steven Spielberg and the DreamWorks studio it bought just 20 months ago for $1.53 billion? Bad blood between the studio and Spielberg could end this Hollywood marriage. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hollywood's Failure Formula The Passion of The Christ was turned down by major movie studios, but it's still a hit. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Hedgies Bet Cruise Is Still Top Gun All of Tom Cruise's wacky antics haven't dried up his star power, or at least that's the bet of some unnamed hedge funds bankrolling him. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Wal-Mart Joins Video Download Party All the major studios are on board. Is Apple's iTunes store in trouble? |
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
December 11, 2007
Anders Bylund |
"Golden Compass" Tarnished an Entire Genre The fantasy genre has been an easy cash cow for Hollywood in the past few years. But it isn't that easy anymore. |
Macworld
March 30, 2007
Peter Cohen |
The Movies Fun strategy game allows you to go Hollywood. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Netflix a Mickey Mouse Operation? Disney ponders an online and DVD rental service. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2006
Steven Mallas |
DVD: Devalued Disc? Even though many of the free movies British newspapers are giving away might be antiquated, there's no question that such a marketing move does corrupt the image of the disc as a premium commodity. Why do studios allow this to go on? |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Battle For DVD Format Unfolds Film studio Paramount Home Entertainment said it would embrace the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Let's Play Nice With Redbox Coinstar's DVD kiosks and Paramount are extending their revenue-sharing deal. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Harry Potter Reigns Supreme Time Warner's young wizard captures the top spot at the weekend box office. Time Warner shareholders can marvel at the power of Potter, but they shouldn't get too enthralled just yet. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Tom Lowry |
Hollywood Confidential A review of the book "The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood" by Edward Jay Epstein, which illustrates the costs and revenues of film-making. |
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
September 29, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Disney Is No Ratings Mouse Disney's ABC network is doing just fine, thank you, in the ratings. Shareholders should take a positive attitude and a long-term perspective for the stock. |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2006
Steven Mallas |
NBC's Universal Problem GE's NBC Universal asset needs to get back on the growth track. Is unscripted TV the answer? |
