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Amazon Enters Movie Business With Two Wise First Steps

In a twist of the old adage “give them an inch and they’ll take a mile”, just a week after winning a Golden Globe for television series, musical or comedy for their show “Transparent”, web giant Amazon has announced its intentions to enter the movie business by producin…

Diffusion of Netflix

Movie Theatres Face An Inevitable Netflix Effect

As we begin the new year, I strongly believe we are entering a period of great danger and even greater uncertainty. Events are unfolding within and without the movie industry that are extremely threatening to our studio. This is how Jeffrey Katzenberg began his now infamous 1991 memo which criticize…

ECA Member Card - 2012 Trailer

Discovering How The ECA Uses Trailers To Promote Event Cinema

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVQV44qRNM[/youtube] Rather than simply being a service that continuously clogs your inbox with email updates, it turns out LinkedIn, the popular social network, can be rather useful for discovering certain bi…

A Little Teaser For “Ant-Man” Is A Big Win For Marvel

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjhJf1R4k4[/youtube] Marvel Entertainment did not wait long before placing their mark on 2015. The Disney owned company is widely expected to have a banner year thanks to the release of both “The Avenger…

MoviePass and AMC

How MoviePass Converted AMC From Foe to Friend

Last week MoviePass, the unlimited moviegoing subscription service, reached a major milestone in the development of their company and possibly the decades old theatrical exhibition business model. AMC Theatres announced an agreement with MoviePass for a pilot partnership that will let its patrons in…

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Sony Hackers Crossed A Line By Threatening Movie Theatres

Though most of the entertainment industry and business world has been riveted to every breaking development of the Sony Pictures hack, we have purposely refrained from writing anything about it. That was until the perpetrators of the cybercrime threatened movie theatres showing an upcoming Sony film…

Interstellar Unlimited Ticket Meme

Answering A Few Hypothetical Questions About the “Interstellar” Unlimited Ticket

Two weeks ago AMC Theatres and Paramount Pictures announced they’d be teaming up to provide members of the cinema chain’s loyalty program, AMC Stubs, an opportunity to see “Interstellar” as many times as they’d like. The Interstellar Unlimited Ticket, as the offering ha…

Star Wars Force Awakens Teaser Release

Regal Cinemas Causes A Disturbance In The Force

A few days ago you may have felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of PR managers suddenly cried out in terror, and a theatre chain was suddenly silenced. Translation: Regal Cinemas learned the hard (and often harmless) lesson so many online retailers have already experienced on count…

YouTube Now Supports High Frame Rate Playback (Sort Of)

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L562H8a2Fs[/youtube] Back in 2010, as debate raged over whether 4K was really necessary in movie theatres (it depends) and if consumers would ever adopt 4K television sets (they’re starting to), YouTube…

New MPAA and NATO Wearables Policy Is As Much About Social Norms As It Is About Piracy

In his classic 1835 treatise on American society, Democracy In America, french historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.” This passage sprang to min…