GLG News by Movie Distribution Experts

The world will eventually move to digital cinema exhibition. It is a matter of when not if and how long it will take. At issue from the start of the transition has been who is going to pay. The exhibitors do not want to spend a lot of money just to save the distributors/studios their print costs. As...

1. Many consumers are looking to Apple iPhone to redefine phones as the Apple iPod did Mp3 players 2. Will the iPhone help reverse AT&T’s declining share in new mobile customers?

Apple's iTunes has now become the third largest retailer of music in the US, behind Wal-Mart and Best Buy with just under 10% of the market share.

1.  What do the puzzling moves of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp mean for Social Networking, MySpace and Facebook?     2.  Is it time for a broader News Corp digital / media strategy?     

Alternative content is a great concept for idle capacity in the nation’s movie theaters and is enabled due to the transition to digital cinema. It will be a while before this concept is proven or disproven. The reasons are simple: there has not been much alternative content and the theaters, used to...

A coalition of music performers under the umbrella of musicFirst is seeking a royalty from the radio industry for playing their music. It's another example of the recording industry--and in this case the performers--struggling to find revenues in a new digital environment.

Beyond DVR ratings, the broadcast networks are recognizing that the Internet is the new window for revenue.

Blockbuster has announced that it will offer all new high definition DVDs in the Blu Ray format on an exclusive basis. Whether or not this is a blockbuster decision by Blockbuster as it relates to the Sony led format remains to be seen. And this will not necessarily spell the doom of the Toshiba led...

Can MusicStation, a phone based music service backed by Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music, beat Apple’s iTunes / iPhone combination?

By most standards, U2 is a leader in all aspects of the entertainment business, but when major players such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, Disney, DreamWorks and others are involved in 3D stereoscopic movies, U2 is just another name on the list. U2 was at Cannes...