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  Oligopoly Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The movie industry as industry is now followed by the general public almost as closely as fans follow the business of professional sports.
If you want to see movies at the cineplex, you'd better go there in the first or second week, Unless it's a blockbuster, it may not be around by the time you have read the reviews, asked your friends, and arranged for a babysitter.
The cost of shelf space in the movie industry is so high that there is littleroom for modest hits.
www.oligopolywatch.com /2003/08/06.html   (949 words)

  
 Nigerian Movies on Naijarules.com - Movie industry generates N30 billion in 10 years
It was thumbs up for the movie industry in the country yesterday with the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala disclosing that in the last 10 years, the sector has raked in between N10 and N30 billion.
She urged film producers not to relent in the face of challenges saying: "Don't be complacent." She stressed that one of the pillars of the government's reform programme was strengthening the private sector.
She added that the movie industry though informal, falls under the category, adding that government was willing to help the industry grow.
www.naijarules.com /vb/showthread.php?t=2996   (879 words)

  
 The Daily, Wednesday, June 4, 2003. Movie theatres and drive-ins
Movie theatres, including drive-ins, sold 119.6 million tickets in the 2000/01 fiscal year, an increase of only 0.3% from the previous year.
Industry sources suggest there were fewer big hits in 2000 than in the previous two years, and attendance may have been relatively low in the traditional big box-office summer months because of a lack of "blockbusters."
This may be due to two factors: distance, and the lack of movie theatres in most small communities throughout the province.
www.statcan.ca /Daily/English/030604/d030604a.htm   (1120 words)

  
 The Movie Industry
The Movie Industry is one of most exciting and informative businesses in the world, a business where the revenue of a single feature film (such as Titanic), can approach or exceed $1 billion.
Over 70% of the population rents or goes to movies regularly, thus accounting for over 1.5 billion movie attendances each year in the U.S. Prior to 1985, feature motion pictures had one major source of revenue in the United States and abroad: the movie theater.
Industry statistics reveal that the past ten years have marked an overall increase of at least 30% in many "ancilliary markets" and, over 200%, as in the case of home video.
www.mecfilms.com /moviepubs/memos/moviein.htm   (3979 words)

  
 RIAA-Movie Industry Cry Illegalize It - MegaGames hardware
Of course, the movie industry was lucky it lost the case against VCRs, because home video soon became Hollywood's largest source of revenue.
And the freedom to use and develop new technology that was protected by the Betamax decision set the stage for the incredible growth in computer technology we've seen in the last few decades.
And if they get this power, they'll definitely use it: just as they tried to stomp out the VCR in the 70's and 80's, the music and movie industries want to force all content to go through their own restricted channels.
www.megagames.com /news/html/hardware/riaa-movieindustrycryillegalizeit.shtml   (341 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Movie Industry Unveils Anti-Piracy Public Education Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The movie industry estimates that it loses between $3 billion and $4 billion annually from pirated DVD discs manufactured mainly in Asia but sold throughout the world.
The industry is, in Valenti's words, trying to prevent Napster from happening to the movie industry, referring to the song-swapping software that enabled millions of computer users to download songs for free and which the music industry blames for its current sales slump.
The movie industry is attempting to appeal to the conscience of potential Internet pirates who regard their actions as just retribution against the entertainment conglomerates for the prices they charge.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_July_23/ai_105702131   (616 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - The movie industry fights off the pirates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And that's just what the movie studio is willing to reveal about the steps it is taking to prevent pirates from illegally getting their hands on — and making copies of — its impending blockbuster.
Because movies take so much more time and space to download, the movie industry is less threatened than the music business, says David Davis, senior vice president of the Los Angeles-based investment banking firm Houlihan, Lokey, Howard and Zukin.
While some argue that movies beamed around the world via satellite would be sure targets for pirates, experts say that the sheer amount of the data — along with military-level encryption — could thwart thieves.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/2003-05-05-piracy-usat_x.htm   (2297 words)

  
 Business: Movie industry projects bottom
In some ways, the industry's deep troubles shifted attention away from the fact that all but a few national retailers have grown cautious about opening many new stores during the economic slowdown.
Regal, the industry's biggest player, is flirting with bankruptcy after shuttering 90 theaters with 1,125 screens, including a state-of-the-art Hollywood 20 in north Tampa that was only 3 years old.
Thompson is an industry consultant in Knoxville, Tenn., who hopes to rise from the ashes operating new theaters under the Phoenix Theaters banner.
pages.stern.nyu.edu /~wgreene/entertainmentandmedia/MovieIndustry.htm   (884 words)

  
 Source: Movie industry to sue computer users   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The lawsuits will target movie fans who share digitized versions of films over peer-to-peer networks, with the first wave of litigation planned for as early as Thursday, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The movie studios were still finalizing how many lawsuits would make up their initial filing, but it would probably be around 200 or so, the source said.
The movie industry has also tried to battle piracy by running ads in movie theaters and elsewhere designed to dissuade people from file-sharing films by stressing the risks of identity theft and liability.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04309/406303.stm   (508 words)

  
 Disney -- Movie Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Disney and the movie industry: company information with regard to its role in the movie industry, how Disney uses IT to advertise their movies and the impact of IT on Disney; need movie industry information, including trends, demographics, revenues.
Ratio Comparisons for the company, its industry (which Yahoo considers to be Broadcasting and Cable TV), its sector, and the S&P 500.
Industry by industry overview of the U.S. economy, with numerous tables, charts, industry reviews, forecasts and analyses.
www.lib.washington.edu /business/tlc/archive/ds.html   (3472 words)

  
 Movie Industry Sues Second Round of File Traders
If the media industries only took the time in the late 90's to understand and serve this group - I believe they call it marketing - rather than fight against them their revenues would have significantly increased.
Of all industries that should know this it should be the movie industry.
Speaking about growth, what makes the movie industry different from the music industry is that their industry hasn't stopped growing.
www.mp3newswire.net /stories/5002/mpaa.html   (588 words)

  
 Grumpy Gamer
Movies are so expensive now, very little risks are taken by any major studio, and so we end up one step forward, two steps back, so to speak.
Movies, especially the bad ones, are made with a "formula" - script and actors in one end and money comes out the other.
Anyway, you may still be right in that the movie industry is bigger than the game industry, but there is a lot of information you are leaving out.
grumpygamer.com /5378171   (8191 words)

  
 Technology News: Commentary : The Death and Rebirth of the Movie Industry
The Death and Rebirth of the Movie Industry
The tools the movie industry is using now should allow, for many movies, the opportunity to pull the movie back in and fix it rather than let it die in the theaters, but it may take some time for the industry to realize and adjust for this.
The end result should initially be better movie modeling -- the death of story boards -- and, coupled with the do-over feature, eventually the near elimination of expensive bad movies.
www.technewsworld.com /story/34914.html   (1593 words)

  
 SW: Movie industry
This sudden spurt of movies marks the first time in two decades that Singaporean movie makers have tackled local themes.
Movie buffs see Khoo's works as a sign that Singapore's nascent film industry is sputtering back to life.
There are few local actors who could be deemed "movie stars," so to cast for the characters in his films, Khoo mostly combs his circle of friends.
www.singapore-window.org /0717feer.htm   (1311 words)

  
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The movie industry has been characterized by concentration, vertical integration, and tightly bound contractual arrangements from the very beginning.
By 1905, movie projectors allowed films to be viewed simultaneously by larger audiences; and Edison and a few others tried to continue their control of the market, again through their patents on the cameras, projectors, film, and other equipment.
By the late 1930s, the film industry was dominated by the Five Majors who were fully vertically integrated--that is, they controlled all three phases of the industry: production, distribution, and exhibition--together with three minor distributors.
www.polisci.ccsu.edu /trieb/Movies.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Movie Industry Marketing strategy, photography, promotion for indie filmmakers
Movie Industry Marketing offers independent producers, distributors and marketers a content web-site; affordable special reports by and about indie producers, distributors and marketers; and occasionally people ask us to help with special projects.
Movie Industry Marketing newsletter for producers, distributors, directors, writer/directors, writer/producers and project packagers.
Movie Industry Marketing helps producers, screenwriters and directors turn film projects into marketable enterprises.
www.movieindustrymarketing.com   (318 words)

  
 Techdirt:Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie Watching Is A Social Experience
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whining about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business.
All of these are great places to go, but I think the problem is that the movie industry sees their big market as being those under 18, and these places aren't geared to them.
Of course if the movie industry and theater chains actually tried to put more of these adult-marketed theaters around, they might at least see a lot more 20+ year-olds going out on dates or even for married couples without kids.
techdirt.com /articles/20050322/0135258_F.shtml   (942 words)

  
 Movie Industry and Personnel (Yale Library Film Studies)
The Cinemagoing and related documents provide information and analysis about the cinema industry worldwide of the sort intended for the motion picture industry -- the studios, exhibitors, major banks and financial institutions, suppliers to the industry and so forth.
The database is the result of the collaboration between the European Audiovisual Observatory and the various specialized national sources as well as the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Reproduction is permitted only under the provisions of fair use under the Copyright Act of the USA, 17 U.S.C. Contact the Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives Department for information about the visual materials used on this Web site.
www.library.yale.edu /humanities/film/industry.html   (872 words)

  
 CoverStory: ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL; Great Indian dream; Super power 2020; Dec 28, 2003. The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With the advent of the industrial revolution, economic progress was propelled largely by technological development leading to machines replacing human resources.
The average cost of a movie ticket in India is about 40 cents whereas in most cities of the first world it is $15.
For millions of people nationwide, watching a movie is not just mere entertainment, it is virtually their only means to retain their sanity in an increasingly tough and competitive world.
www.the-week.com /23dec28/cover.htm   (17726 words)

  
 NS8 Helps Movie Industry Combat Piracy with Secure On-Demand Entertainment Solutions
Movie piracy is quickly becoming one of the top economic issues for movie studios.
Movie distributors are now empowered to distribute worldwide without duplicating expensive and vulnerable 35mm film stock or risking piracy while also reducing insurance costs.
Movies studios and distributors can render the content unusable within the specified policies of the distribution license agreements, eliminating the need to recall the film once the release window has expired.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2004/Nov/1092365.htm   (1276 words)

  
 Movie Moguls Need to Face the Music
Any movie mogul worth his private screening room knows that film downloads are next on Job's to-do list (see BW Online, 10/13/05, "The New Guns in Apple's Arsenal").
And unless the movie industry finds a way to satisfy an increasingly tech-savvy consumer, it could be the music-download debacle all over again: an ineffective army in Armani allowing the tech industry to run away with a growing piece of its market (see BW Online, 10/13/05, "Apple's Baby Steps Toward Movies").
Movies are currently available for download somewhere between DVD and TV, so if you want to snag an online copy of, say, Warner Bros.' (TWX) Batman Begins, you can't.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/oct2005/nf20051018_5868_db011.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Movie industry dealt DVD-cracking blow | CNET News.com
The movie industry has sued to stop the spread of the software in several ways.
A federal case is still going on, in which the industry argues that the code is explicitly designed to break through a copyright protection system and therefore illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The movie industry's "statutory right to protect its economically valuable trade secret is not an interest that is 'more fundamental' than the First Amendment right to freedom of speech," the judges wrote.
news.com.com /2100-1023-275302.html?legacy=cnet   (1037 words)

  
 Sun.Star Davao - Maxey: Saving the movie industry
The industry can afford to pay their top stars huge sums of money, so much so that many of them own mansions and stables of flashy cars, travel abroad as often as they can in-between location shootings and generally live the life of the very rich.
Veteran actress Boots Anson Roa, executive director of the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation, Inc. (Mowelfund), said she views piracy as a form of corruption that has become "part of our culture".
The best solutions for saving the dying movie industry are: (a) produce better quality films that Filipino moviegoers will readily lap up; (b) reduce the price of the VCDs to make them more affordable to the public, and (c) continue pressuring government authorities to go after the pirates without let-up.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2004/12/28/oped/ram.maxey.bar.none.html   (464 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | California's porn industry HIV scare
The adult movie industry in Los Angeles generates nearly half as much revenue as mainstream Hollywood, but it was dealt a blow recently when five actors were diagnosed as HIV-positive.
She returned to school to study for a doctorate in human sexuality and went on to found a health-care organisation which tests porn stars for sexually-transmitted diseases.
When I inquired of the companies at the centre of the HIV scare, whether they now insist that their performers wear condoms, I was told it was up to the individuals involved.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4135473.stm   (1250 words)

  
 Film Forum: Should There Be a Christian Movie Industry? - Christianity Today Magazine
Some think Christian movies are safe, clean, a preferred alternative to popular cinema, and "movies with a message." Others will say they're poorly made, propagandistic, and preachy.
Rather … it is a movie that was led by the Spirit of God and reflects his heart and purpose.
Movies, like anything, whether they are Christian or otherwise, can reflect and reveal the Lord in different ways to different people.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2003/119/41.0.html   (3153 words)

  
 Movie Industry Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Movie Industry Report Hong Kong - Hitwise Research Reports - Buy...
As he readies for the release of Veer Zaara, the film analysts say this might be director's swansong, but Bollywood mogul Yash Chopra has said he is not retiring...
A Toronto-area priest who was spiritual adviser to Mel Gibson during filming of the controversial movie The Passion Of The Christ has been suspended by Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic for saying Latin masses for a...
archive.wn.com /2004/08/28/1400/movieindustrynow   (809 words)

  
 E-Commerce News: News: Movie Industry Suffers Blow in DVD Court Ruling
The ruling was seen as a blow to the movie industry's bid to reel in hackers, since it may spill over into other cases involving the piracy or illegal sale of movies on the Internet.
The DVD industry group could force the court's hand by appealing the California ruling, something its attorney indicated was a possibility.
In fact, the three justices who dissented from the majority opinion said Pavlovich's actions were in effect aimed at the state because it is the epicenter of the movie industry.
www.ecommercetimes.com /perl/story/20093.html   (748 words)

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