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The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hollywood's Failure Formula The Passion of The Christ was turned down by major movie studios, but it's still a hit. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
"The Passion" Resurrected Mel Gibson's risky movie project is being re-released. Could it become an annual staple? |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2004 Tom Taulli |
Movies Heat up Earnings at Lions Gate Lions Gate is a rare species in the entertainment world. It has a solid backlog of movies, record revenue in its latest quarter, and a stock price at a high. |
The Motley Fool April 8, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Disney's Empty Home The recent lackluster response to its new animated offering puts the studio division in the spotlight. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Religious Revenues Beyond Mel Gibson's movie, Christianity is big business in America. |
The Motley Fool April 17, 2007 Steven Mallas |
Lions Gate Gets Religion Lions Gate to exploit the faith-based marketplace to augment growth. Tapping this particular demographic should lead to good business opportunities for the studio. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool February 5, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Pixar Perfect Pixar scores a record quarter to close out a record year. |
The Motley Fool December 9, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's Holy Celluloid Disney takes the spiritual path to marketing enlightenment with its latest live action film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Not-So-Scary Movie Does piracy threaten the movie studios? Not just yet. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Disney Mousy About Movies Disney reiterates its reluctance to play the big-budget movie game. Good call, there's a better way. |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2007 Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Lions Gate Purrs The movie studio is set to release its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Steven Mallas |
News Corp. Has Faith Fox looks to the heavens for shareholder value. The company's Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment unit revealed plans to target the faith-based marketplace. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Marvels of 2004 Marvel has big plans in store for the upcoming year. Another hit at the box office and Marvel will once again stand to collect princely sums from the games, home video market, and various merchandising tie-ins. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Oscars Plot Thickens Lord of the Rings leads the way in Oscar nominations, but there were some surprises. |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
News Corp.'s Foxy Quarter Profiting off American idolatry. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Rich Smith |
Two Sides to CD Story DualDiscs may hit the market in October, but a similar technology has been patented for years in Europe, with a patent also pending in the U.S. Should a lawsuit ensue, this could derail the industry's plans before they ever begin to bear fruit. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Tom Taulli |
Lion's Gate on Fire Lion's Gate is a small fry in entertainment. And that means it needs -- from time to time -- to take a big risk. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Disney's Download Deal CinemaNow and Disney team up to digitally distribute more movies. |
Fast Company Evie Nagy |
Here's The Big Problem With Sony Releasing "The Interview" On Demand After a message from the hackers threatened violent attacks on movie theaters if the film was released, all the major theater chains pulled out of showing it. Many suggested that Sony should immediately release the movie on the Internet. |
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Want Movie Downloads? Pay Up! Digital movie downloads? Good. Paying $30 a pop? Not so good. Given the fees and the limitations involved, it seems that this development mostly pays lip service to the nascent digital downloading industry. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Time Warner Still in AOHell Time Warner reports a doubling of its net profits for the first quarter. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison |
MGM Stays in the Picture A very large and valuable pile of assets now stands to change hands, possibly quite soon. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Steven Mallas |
The Punishing Movie Business The Punisher had a not-so-heroic estimated opening of $14 million... looks like The Bride tamed Lions Gate. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Viacom Rakes in Ad Sales Viacom reports a great quarter, driven by strong advertising sales. |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Casting Changes for Hollywood Execs Disney and Universal swap out their movie-studio top brass. |
InternetNews January 14, 2008 |
Toshiba Cuts HD Player Prices in Blu-ray Fight Toshiba is slashing prices of its HD DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray format high definition DVDs. |
HBS Working Knowledge August 17, 2011 Kim Girard |
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism. |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 Grover & Lowry |
Squeezing Every Dime from DVDs With consumers flocking to low-cost Netflix and Redbox, Hollywood wants a bigger share of the profits. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Fox and the Spider Spiders are usually creepy things, but not this time. Fox has secured television broadcasting rights to Sony's Spider-Man 2, which opened yesterday. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Netflix's Swelling Competition The first-mover finds itself facing a watershed of competition. |
InternetNews October 3, 2005 Clint Boulton |
Battle For DVD Format Unfolds Film studio Paramount Home Entertainment said it would embrace the Blu-ray format backed by a group led by Sony. |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
The Fight for Video on Demand Netflix sizes up a hot market that could pose a threat to it. |
The Motley Fool December 10, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hooray for Blu-Ray! Disney validates the next generation DVD technology by promising to support Sony's Blu-Ray platform. |
Inc. January 2005 Elyssa Lee |
Entrepreneur of the Year: Mel Gibson Bringing faith to the masses. And Hollywood. His film racked up $120 million in the first five days of release last spring and more than $600 million to date, making it the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Learns to Crawl Disney hasn't shaken the dissidents off its mouse tail just yet. |
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Tim Beyers |
Disney Gets Darker Forget what you know about Walt Disney. Princesses will give way to pirates, ghosts, and digital terrorists at the box office next year. |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Disney's "Arthur" No Legend With a disappointing opening, Disney's film King Arthur might already be history. |
InternetNews January 4, 2008 |
Game Over? Warner Bros To Back Blu-ray Exclusively The latest development in the DVD format war is a big win for Blu-ray over rival HD DVD technology. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
From Zero to Hero For a filmmaker that prides itself on milking a hit through its various operating revenue streams, fiscal success often begins with the successful parting of the red curtains. Disney needed a hero, but this Hero came too late. |
The Motley Fool May 5, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kid Flicks, Adult Profits Pixar's films have averaged a whopping $239 million and that's just at the domestic box office. Scoring riches overseas along with the eventual home video releases and lucrative merchandising opportunities, Pixar's a money machine. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Deer Disney Disney's re-release of a classic lives up to its status as a platinum title. |
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 W.D. Crotty |
Simply Marvelous The future is very bright for Marvel Enterprises. |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Lemony's a Lemon for Viacom Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events is having an unfortunate time at the box office. Viacom shareholders were certainly hoping for something more. |
Entrepreneur January 2008 Farnoosh Torabi |
Investor's Cut Get your shot at the silver screen without setting a foot in Hollywood. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Teacher Offers New Lessons A recent multiplex flick is hitting digital outlets before the DVD market. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2011 Tim Beyers |
Why Disney Is Poised to Win Again I'll be unsurprised if Disney wins big when The Avengers reaches theaters next May. Take notes, Time Warner. The formula for success is right in front of you. |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2004 Tim Goh |
Opening the Lions' Floodgates Independent film producer and distributor Lions Gate has a roaring second quarter. It's time for investors to sit up and pay attention. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Viacom's Dazzling Performance Couch potatoes watch more ads as the firm grows its cash pile. It's too early to tell if Viacom shares really are a bargain, but cash flow could continue to improve after Blockbuster is finally spun off this fall. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2004 Steven Mallas |
Viacom Loses a Star Chief operating officer Mel Karmazin has decided to leave media conglomerate Viacom, but the company should be just fine. So far, the stock hasn't suffered too badly on the news. |