Motion picture industry

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Demand Shifts and Second Degree Price discimination - the Impact of DVDs on the Motion Pictures Industry

This paper applies models of price discrimination to the motion picture industry. Movies are durable goods with no resale market. Therefore, price discrimination using time can be used. The distributors release the movie in two different periods: theaters and video. The first is a high quality product and the second is a low quality product issued in a later point in time. The quality gap between the two versions of the product has shrunk as the DVD technology penetrated the market. This paper compares two years: 1995 and 2000. Initial results show a difference between the two years. The most evident one is a shrinkage of the time between the theatrical release and the video releaseprice discrimination, motion picture industry, time consistency

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entertainment?

This comment focuses on the case Arizona ex rel Goddard v. Harkins Amusement Enterprises and uses it to explore whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) is being distorted and misused if theater owners are required to install and provide equipment so as to fully accommodate hearing- and vision impaired customers. The comment begins by outlining the ADA using case examples and detailing the analytical framework courts use to evaluate claims asserted under the Act. It then discusses the accommodations the motion picture industry currently provides disabled patrons, and, after evaluating these existing accommodations, outlines the financial and technical effect full compliance under the ADA would have on the motion picture industry. Lastly, the article suggests possible action for courts and the public to take in order to balance the interests of disabled Americans and the motion picture industry, ultimately concluding that full compliance under the ADA would place an undue burden on the motion picture industry

Online Review Analysis TriggeringHype in the Motion Picture Industry

Competition in the motion picture industry continues to intensify at a very rapid pace. This phenomenon makes the production house continue to try to look for new ways to maximize revenue from the short life cycle of a film. One of the variables currently playing a larger role in decision-making to watch a film is a review. Two types of reviews are often used in the motion picture industry, namely the reviews from critics and fellow consumers. This study tries to see whose review will trigger a hype or buzz that much needed in the motion picture industry. Data from 219 respondents were collected to see their response regarding a review and whose review will encourage them to talk about a film to their peers and ultimately create the hype needed by a film. There are different perceptions for reviews given by critics, and fellow consumers with reviews from fellow consumers have greater potential to create and ignite hype in the motion picture industry

Wolves of Labrador script, first draft.

Nature; Motion-picture industry; Animal

Wolves of Labrador script, final draft.

Nature; Motion-picture industry; Animal

Examining Success in the Motion Picture Industry

This paper focuses on the effects of several variables on the domestic box-office demand for the 189 widely-released movies of 2007. I will examine if there are factors that ultimately lead to movie success at the box-office or if there are factors that are believed to be important, but in all actuality have very little impact on revenues. Box-office receipts, however, are not the ultimate determinant of success in the industry. Some companies may use theaters as extended advertising medias and capitalize on the relatively cheap cost of producing DVDs and digital copies of films, but success typically has to occur in the theaters in order for other forms of the film to sell. Nevertheless, examining box-office revenue is the best way to determine the success of a film at this time because the information is readily available and movie theaters are still accepted as the major source of revenue for a particular movie