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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 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 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.  |
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.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Amazon Latest in Video Download Arena? The giant is reportedly thinking about it, but the services, while gaining popularity, are still 'not a slam dunk.'  |
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.  |
InternetNews July 17, 2006 Clint Boulton |
How to Rip a Movie, Legally Internet movie service provider Movielink has licensed software from Sonic Solutions to offer consumers a legal way to pay for movies they download from the Internet and burn them onto blank DVDs.  |
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.  |
Fast Company May 1, 2011 Margaret Rhodes |
Numerology: The Price of Piracy With Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hitting theaters May 20th, it seems our obsession with pirates just won't end -- though for many of us, sailing the seas of digital piracy is about as close as we'll get.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Glenn Derene |
Movie Download Site Comparison: Test Drive The future of buying and renting movies is streaming now to a PC near you. But not all online flicks are equal. Here's what you get with your near-instant gratification.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek March 20, 2006 Ronald Grover |
Dibs On The Download Dough Actors get just over a cent from ABC for every $1.99 download.  |
Home Theater September 21, 2007 |
Apple May Rent Movies Apple is in "advanced talks" with studios over a new scheme that would offer 30-day download rentals for $2.99 via iTunes  |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Muchmore & Kaplan |
Broadband Cinema Movie download sites eliminate the trips to the video store and the wait for Netflix mail. Is there a catch?  |
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 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.  |
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 April 9, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Now Playing: Digital Disarray Hollywood's piracy fears are stifling online video expansion.  |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
BitTorrent's Big Break Peer-to-peer file-sharing program BitTorrent's new deals are a step forward in digital movie distribution.  |
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 July 26, 2010 Jordan DiPietro |
Death by a Thousand Cuts The music industry is slowly dying. More and more people are using streaming sites like Pandora, which means there will be fewer digital downloads.  |
BusinessWeek September 11, 2006 Ronald Grover |
The Empire Strikes Back Wal-Mart sees a threat from iTunes downloads.  |
PC World October 26, 2006 Dan Tynan |
Movie Downloads Are Still a Flop Skipping the video store sounds good, but don't count on it anytime soon.  |
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.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek September 4, 2006 Ronald Grover |
Duds In The Water The "smart money" sees slim returns from films.  |
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?  |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Jim Mueller |
Disney Is Getting Dangerous Disney's shift away from studio revenue and toward media, relying more and more on television advertising and fees paid by cable operators, might have come at the worst possible time.  |
Home Toys December 2002 Michael Greeson |
Coming to a PC Near You Movielink ushers in a new genre of content provisioning capable of radically altering the business of movie rental. While you may disagree with this claim, this is indeed big news to those likely affected by this move.  |
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.  |
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 August 24, 2010 Anders Bylund |
This Insanity Has to Stop Blu-ray players from a major manufacturer suffer serious blind spots after an update that shouldn't be necessary in the first place.  |
The Motley Fool July 19, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Made You Blink Wake up, growth stocks. The online streaming service Movielink may finally matter.  |
Home Theater May 1, 2007 |
Vudu to Offer Instant Movies Vudu is offering an Internet-connected set-top download box that starts a movie as soon as you press the play button.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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...  |
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?  |
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 October 10, 2011 Anders Bylund |
What Jobs' Passing Could Teach Hollywood Apart from already having the movie in your DVD library, the only reliable way to catch the cult film about Steve Jobs, Pirates of Silicon Valley, while it's still hot is, ironically, piracy.  |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Time Warner Thinks Small Screen The media giant hops on the "direct to video" bandwagon. If it can avoid the likely pitfalls, Time Warner may find a hungry market. Investors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Tim Beyers |
3 Stocks for the Coming Content War Go with the ones most likely to get great bids. Before we get to the details, it may be worth looking at how Hollywood studios/networks compare at the highest level.  |
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann |
The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please.  |
PC World September 2004 Michael Desmond |
Video Without Wires? Getting movies off the Internet and onto your TV or handheld device sounds great. But the idea's not ready for prime time--yet. Problems range from digital rights management to networking hardware.  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Anders Bylund |
Yahoo! Saves the Music Yahoo! is discussing launching the music industry's best chance to wipe out piracy.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Steven Mallas |
Disney and The Rock: A Great Tag Team The new Disney family film The Game Plan offers further proof that Disney's branding strategy works. Disney wants to focus on family fare and keep its movie slate to a minimum number of releases that yield a maximum return.  |
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Ronald Grover |
Tinseltown's Aim: To Catch a Thief Hollywood is in full crackdown mode for crooks who pilfer films by recording them at premieres and press screenings.  |
InternetNews January 22, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
AOL's Movie Deal The Internet services giant partners with MovieLink to give broadband subscribers 99-cent movies for a limited time.  |