Looking at a broader sweep of industry history, though, Disney's exit from game publishing feels like punctuation in a much longer sentence. It's not so many years since the entry ... More
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Games Have Left the Shadow of the Movie Business (GamesIndustry.biz)
Why Movie Theaters Should and Shouldn’t be Afraid of VOD (The Verge)
Many theater owners worry that, in the age of streaming, the cineplex will become less relevant. The message from studios, however, was clear: theater owners have nothing to fear, ... More
Why Your Cable Company Wants to Make Movies (USA Today)
Your cable company is becoming a movie studio. Your Internet provider delivers you sports highlights. What’s next — TV shows brought to you by the electric company? Something t... More
James Cameron Slams Screening Room as ‘Threat’ to Theaters (Variety)
James Cameron tore into Screening Room at CinemaCon on Thursday, arguing that the start-up threatened the movie-going experience, while pledging to continue to deliver epic films t... More
Hollywood Discovers That It May Be Missing Out on Date Night (NY Times)
Behind the big numbers in the Motion Picture Association of America’s annual report on moviegoing — global ticket sales grew 5 percent in 2015, to $38.3 billion — lie some su... More
CinemaCon: Mobile Ticketing Gets a Push as Atom, Fandango, MovieTickets Announce Deals (THR)
Mobile movie ticketing systems moved to the front of the line at CinemaCon, the theater owners convention taking place in Las Vegas, as Atom Tickets, Fandango and MovieTickets.com ... More
Is This the End of Movie Theaters? (DailyBeast)
A war is raging in Hollywood—and no, I’m not referring to this weekend’s titanic throwdown between the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel. Rather, it’s a battle being wage... More
Inside Screening Room’s Bold Plan to Disrupt Movie Business (Variety)
When it comes to movies, Parker believes that the future is a couch-based one, but that view has its detractors. Theaters have resisted efforts to shrink the time between a film’... More
Hollywood Considers Premium Movie Rentals for $50 (Variety)
Five years ago, major studios attempts to offer first-run movies in the home months early set off a fierce standoff with theater owners. Now, a startup backed by Sean Parker of Fac... More
Coming To A Theater Near You: Data-Driven Advertising, Starring National CineMedia, Fandango (AdExchanger)
If you’ve been to a movie recently, you’ve likely seen a pre-show advertising program called FirstLook. While you probably don’t think of it as data-driven marketing, that mi... More