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Home Theater May 28, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	Will Hollywood Break the Window? Early VOD will be costly to consumers and offensive to theater owners.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Lowry & Grover	Cable Fights For Its Movie Rights Video-on-demand's reach is expanding, and the cable biz wants to show films sooner.
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 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.
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.
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.
PC Magazine September 4, 2007 Heather V. Eng	Movies: Straight to Download Hollywood experiments with direct-to-download feature films. But will people trade in the big screen for the monitor?
The Motley Fool September 20, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Tinseltown Cries Wolf Hollywood's quick trigger on the video-release front is no fix for the box-office slump.
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.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Comcast Demands Indie Cred The cable giant comes up with an interesting deal for on-demand content. Is the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, with lines around the block on opening weekend, coming to an end? Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum November 2005 Tekla S. Perry	The Sky Is Falling The intrinsic desirability of using digital technology in 3-D projection gives Disney and Dolby a powerful motive to advance the technology. Once the world's movie theaters go digital, movie studios expect to save about a billion dollars a year.
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 May 2, 2008 Anders Bylund	How Apple's Movie Move Helps Netflix The whole entertainment business is about to turn on its ear. Read on to see why Apple and Netflix will be the likely rulers of the new world order.
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 May 28, 2007 Ronald Grover	I Oughta Be In Pictures Smelling opportunity, heavy hitters are suddenly cranking up new studios.
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.
Salon.com November 5, 2002 Janelle Brown	The unexamined thug life Makers of an ill-fated indie film about L.A. gangbangers claim that a fear of unruly black audiences has prompted theater owners to shun their work.
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.
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HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2003 Manda Salls	Making Money Making Movies Harvard professor Anita Elberse talks about the state of the international motion picture industry, movie piracy, and how to capture screens in foreign markets.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The Last Picture Show The big screen is feeling pretty small these days. If you want to live, multiplex, diversify.
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 June 22, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Movie Gallery Dims the Lights The video rental chain gives a rather bleak sales outlook. Movie Gallery's shares have dropped more than 10% today.
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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.
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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.
Fast Company December 2005 Jena McGregor	A Foreign Affair Global markets used to be an afterthought in Hollywood, but not anymore.
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 January 5, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Thinking Outside of the Box Office Rising ticket prices are keeping theater owners happy, but the empty seats are troublesome. The studios don't have to sweat that out.
Wired December 2005 Xeni Jardin	Thinking Outside the Box Office Director Steven Soderbergh talks about the copyright cops, the remixing underground, and why he'll debut his new movie on DVD, cable, and in theaters all at once.
Fast Company February 2011 Malia Wollan	How Pantelion Films Lures Latinos to the Box Office Lionsgate's Pantelion Films wants to do for Hispanic filmgoers what Tyler Perry has done for African-Americans. Is this progress?
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.
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?
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.
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Salon.com August 27, 2002 Michelle Goldberg	Where are the female directors? There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
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