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2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections

2017 Mid-Year Studio Market Share Projections

Now that we’re halfway through 2017 it seems as good a time as any to project out how the Hollywood box office market share race will wind up by the end of the year. Can Disney hang onto its lead and make it back-to-back wins? Can one of the new micro studios crack the top 10?Read More

Good Dose of Reality Is the Perfect Antidote For All the Netflix Fear Mongering

It’s been a week since streaming media giant Netflix announced two big agreements which signal the company is aggressively moving into a space once occupied exclusively by motion picture distributors and exhibitors. One calls for a sequel to the martial arts classic “Crouching Tiger, Hid…

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Can Filmmakers Really Help Kodak Craft A New Image?

The long standing uncertainty over the future of 35mm motion picture film was finally laid to rest this past week by the Eastman Kodak Co. causing the industry to heave a huge sigh of relief. That’s one way to look at the company’s announcement of an agreement with what the Wall Street J…

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D-Cinema Makes Recutting Current Releases Like “Sallinger” A Reality

We may look back at this past week as a noteworthy milestone in the motion picture business due to something that rarely, if ever, happens; a film already playing in theatres was significantly recut and re-distributed. The few media outlets that made hay over the occurrence focused mostly on the wha…

Tom Ortenberg Moves To Weinstein Company

[/caption] Tom Ortenberg, president of theatrical films at Lionsgate, is ditching the studio he’s spent 12-years at for a similar title and position at The Weinstein Company. In his new role, Ortenberg will take on some of the same responsibilities at TWC that he oversaw at Lionsgate, includi…