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Reports

New-release Features on Video Still Down in Q1 2010 | 09 Jul 10 tags › | Analysis of the first quarter new-release video slate finds studio revenue from shipments of new films on disc to the rental and retail markets are still in steep decline. Overall sales of packaged video also continued to decline in the first half of 2010, despite some signs of economic recovery in consumer spending on other goods. An analysis of the wealth of other entertainment options now avail...

2009 in film: Box office grows but disc sales still shrinking | 29 Jan 10 tags › | Total US film spending in 2009 was virtually flat, down a fractional 0.3% from 2008, while total consumption across all the transactional markets-theatrical, home video retail and rental, video-on-demand and electronic sell-through-was up 4%. Considering the seriousness of the recession this is good news. But the continued decline in DVD sales is not being offset by the combined growth in Blu-ray ...

Box office-to-video conversion rates: Can they be transformed? | 30 Oct 09 tags › | The Great Recession, which officially began in December 2007, wreaked havoc on a video retail business that had been in decline since 2005. Studios are hoping that the worst is past, and are watching the all-important Q4 video rollout for signs of recovery in sales of new-release features on disc. Early results for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen look good, with the studio reporting 6.3m DVDs ...

Analyst commentary

Paramount retains stance of no kiosk window with Redbox | 17 Jun 10 tags › | Paramount announced June 15 it has extended its day-and-date disc revenue-sharing supply deal with Redbox, a decision likely made easier by the prospect of $1.50/night pricing on the horizon for Blu-ray Disc...

Rapid adoption of Blu-ray hardware drives Avatar to record BD sales | 18 May 10 tags › | Fox's 3D motion picture phenomenon Avatar has set a new record, dethroning The Dark Knight as the top Blu-ray Disc (BD) seller of all time after just two weeks of sales. As of May 2, US retailers had sold an...

Redbox agrees to 28-day holdbacks on Fox and Universal movies | 28 Apr 10 tags › | Redbox has signed deals with Fox and Universal implementing 28-day holdbacks on those studios' new-release DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies via its rental kiosk network in exchange for direct sourcing of those...

Presentations

Does the movie industry need a new business model? | 21 Mar 10 tags › | Presentation given at Screen Digest's PEVE conference by chief analyst Ben Keen on the impact that shrinking windows is having on studio revenues, the growing dispute over windows between exhibitors and distributors, the wildly different strategies deployed by the studios in the digital space, and how windows are impacting title performance on digital platforms such as iTunes.