After revealing the year's best - reviewed movies, we have one more bit of data to get through: our annual
evaluation of movie studio performance.
But before we put 2015 in the history books, we have one more bit of data to get through: our annual evaluation
of movie studio performance.
If one were to judge the
intelligence of movie studio executives by the films they release, the only reasonable conclusion would be that most are dense.
The free cash flow yield and the P / E and the book
value of a movie studio — especially a young studio like DreamWorks Animation — is irrelevant.
Freethy grew up in the shadows
of movie studios in Southern California and considered screenwriting but never seriously set out to be a writer.
The streaming site previously signed similar licensing deals with a
range of movie studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Viacom's Paramount, and Comcast's NBCUniversal, among others.
In fact, Rob Norman, chief digital officer at GroupM, the world's largest media buyer, says that he doesn't know of any
instances of movie studios — among the biggest spenders for both YouTube and TV advertising — pulling campaigns in the wake of the dustup.
In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as
chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.
Developing long term alliances and being able to work cross-functionally with
divisions of the movie studio probably connects all the way back to growing up in a large family.
So when Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) decide to throw down in Civil War, it's an honest germination of the seeds of conflict sewn through two other Avengers movies, not the facile
product of a movie studio demanding that two icons battle each other in order to jump - start a franchise.
A study conducted by the The Digital Entertainment Group, a
consortium of movie studios and electronics manufacturers, has predicted that by the end of the year 10.5 million US households will have the ability to play Blu - ray, sharply lower than Adams Media Research's June estimate of 14.4 million.
Bart Williams calmly held up an «Eyes Wide Shut» DVD to emphasize how RealNetworks» new DVD - copying software will supposedly harm his Hollywood movie studio clients... Corynne McSherry of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has been
critical of the movie studios» claims, said the case is all about control.
The free cash flow yield and the P / E and the book
value of a movie studio — especially a young studio like DreamWorks Animation — is irrelevant.
We've been spending a lot of time over the past month looking back at the year that was 2012 (including with our report on last year's best and worst movies), and we've finally reached the end of our retrospectives with our annual
evaluation of movie studio performance.
Just when you thought we were done with our review of the past year in film (including our recent report on 2013's best and worst movies), we have one last look back to offer you: our annual evaluation
of movie studio performance.
The new report comes more than a year after Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima told the Japanese Asahi Shimbun newspaper that the company was in talks with a
number of movie studios to bring more of its popular characters to the big screen (in addition to the long - running Pokemon anime film and TV franchise).
Along with the trade show floor that featured the latest technological advances, concession goodies, comfort seating and more to enhance the theater audience movie going experience,
each of the movie studios presented a sneak peak of their upcoming films slated for release in 2012 and beyond, many which were being seen for the very first time.
They tug at loose threads of
the of the movie studio minutiae, pulling apart the entire quilt while indulging in visual excess of the so - called results.