November 21, 2004

TV Shows on DVD

This past year, TV shows on DVD made approximately $2.3 billion of the $16.5 billion Americans spent on DVDs, and a quick glance at Amazon.com's top sellers list in this vital preholiday season reveals nearly half of the top 20 selling DVDs are TV show sets.

Here is a report about TV shows on DVD at Mercury News - DVDs are profitable sequel even for obscure TV shows.

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November 17, 2004

Best Box Office

This is not about a movie, a Microsoft Xbox game "Halo 2" was sold over $100m in it's first day, as Bill Gates said: "an opening day that's greater than any motion picture has ever had in history."

For example, "The Incredibles", the latest blockbuster film from Pixar, took a mere $70.5m in its opening weekend, while the record for an opening day's ticket sales, at $40.4m, is held by "Spider-Man 2". Overall, annual game sales, at around $20 billion, now exceed box-office receipts. - The Halo effect

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October 02, 2004

TV-on-DVD Gets Popular

TV-on-DVD titles have become so popular they will drive revenue growth at Hollywood studios beyond previous expectations.

Sales of such releases will rise 30% a year to produce almost $4 billion in 2008, the analyst said.

Separately, the Inernational Federation of the Recording Industry said music DVD sales surged 27% in the first half.

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September 21, 2004

Star Wars DVD Box Set Released

CNN reports that George Lucas is releasing the Star Wars DVD box set early on September 21, 2004 due to piracy concerns. Lucas had intended to release the box set of the original 3 movies after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was released. However, he mentions that due to piracy concerns the profits are being eaten up and there might not be a market for the films at that time. The box set contains the changes that Lucas has made from the original releases. CNN also reports on the top 5 major changes. Lucas is quoted as saying that he never intends to re-release the original 3 movies in the first CNN link.

I'm not a star war fun, actually didn't watch them at all. My very little star war knowledge comes from the web server names in my company, such as "r2d2", "yoda", etc. - These names don't make any sense to me.

Fortunately, later we started following "Matrix" and "Lord of the Rings", which I'm very familiar with and won't fail to spell :-).

Maybe movies apply to the rule: you missed once, you missed all!

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August 18, 2004

Halo tournaments - New use for movie theaters

If Internet piracy ends ruining the film industry at least they’ll be able to put all those empty movie theaters to good use: a theater in Logan, Utah set up video projectors in four theaters, hooked each one up to an Xbox and is now holding a weekly giant-screen Halo tournament every Friday night at midnight. They’re even charging teams $60 to play and spectators three bucks a pop just to watch.
Video games hit big screen

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