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Jason Ropell, VP Worldwide Motion Pictures at Amazon Studios, told CinemaCon attendees during the streaming service’s afternoon luncheon that the company believes “in the theat... More

The span between a movie’s theatrical debut and home-video release is likely to get shorter -- as soon as this year. As movie theaters and studios converge this week in Las Ve... More

Last year, the talk at CinemaCon was all about Screening Room. Backed by Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook, the startup wanted to release movies in the home at the same time they... More

For years, retailers have been haunted by the thought of Amazon using its technological prowess to squeeze them into powder. That battle has mostly played out on Amazon’s home tu... More

In an era of digital distribution and streaming video, the DVD and Blu-ray Disc aren’t the home entertainment stars they once were. Yet, as the optical disc celebrates its 20th a... More

Ann Lewnes: "The company has always been about experiences. And I think it was seven or eight years ago, we came up with a lofty tagline “Changing the World Through Digital Exper... More

Vudu, Walmart’s premium video-streaming service, will now let people “convert” DVD and Blu-ray Disc collections into digital copies — which they can then watch on hundreds ... More

Six of the seven biggest Hollywood studios are continuing to push to offer movies in the home mere weeks after their theatrical debuts. However, the companies, particularly Fox ... More

After bringing live streaming to mobile and quickly dominating the space, Facebook is now doing the same for desktops and laptops. Starting today, anyone can stream through Faceboo... More

I’m not sure how Dad wound up in New York from Seattle, but sometime around 1967 or 1968 he landed at Elektra Records in time for The Doors’ release of “Light My Fire.” I r... More

Warner Bros. blockbusters such as the Harry Potter franchise, Gravity and Godzilla will soon be legally available to online viewers in China, thanks to a major rights deal with iQi... More

In the last few years, and with greater intensity in the last 12 months, people started paying for online content. They are doing so at an accelerating pace, and on a dependable, r... More

Video: In the second installment of RSG Media's Leadership Series, Glenn Oakley, EVP of Media Technology, Production and Operations at Discovery Communications, sits with RSG.tv to... More

With the pace of deals not expected to slow anytime soon, PriceWaterhouseCoopers issued a study Tuesday that seeks to get to the bottom of why some deals, despite their synergistic... More

Warner Bros. Digital Networks Group has promoted Jay Levine to EVP, handing him day-to-day oversight of the division’s business development, planning ad sales, distribution and f... More

The next evolution in the media value chain will be the rise of decentralized curation – with individual tastemakers building up mass followings and driving enormous consumption ... More

Many in the media are already writing the epitaph for net neutrality in the Trump era. And it’s true that with every new press release and statement out of the Federal Communicat... More

Amazon.com says it’s open to pursuing deals to stream content through cable operators’ set-top boxes, much like Netflix Inc. has done in the U.S. and Europe. “Amazon is de... More

No other consumer product has really challenged the television as the center of living room entertainment for over half a century. But with the popularization of voice assistants s... More

The current NFL broadcast rights package isn't due to expire until 2022, but Les Moonves has already resigned himself to the idea that the next bidding war will pit the networks ag... More