Edward Jay Epstein
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Amanda Knox Acquittal Retrial: Injustice, Italian Style
GUEST BLOG: With Amanda Knox retrial, Italian prosecutors are getting another chance to perpetuate their original miscarriage of justice
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Five New Ways That Hollywood Is Making Money
Guest Blog: Don't cry for Hollywood, despite the grim financial headlines about mega-flops and eroding revenue streams. Here are new ways the studios are making money
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We’re All Worker Ants in Facebook’s Ad Scheme
Guest Blog: I discovered problems with Facebook’s anthills when I sought to advertise my own e-books
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How the Pirates of the Internet Are Killing Hollywood’s Golden Goose
MPAA chief Chris Dodd is earning $1.5 million to arm-twist Congress, but the powerful tech industry has other plans
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The Enduring Lessons of ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
Le Carre’s tale of a government relying on manipulated intelligence reports –and then failing to acknowledge it — remain all too relevant
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Why Financiers — Not Commies — Are the New Movie Villains
Hollyblog: Thanks to a plethora of stereotype-sensitive advocacy groups, finding villains is not so easy
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Netflix’s Content Gap: Will Subscribers Wait 8 Years to Stream Movies?
Hollyblog: There will be a 96-month gap before movies are available for streaming through the popular service — and that may be too long for subscribers
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How Hollywood Cheapened Its Product
Through their mindless willingness to sell DVDs to Redbox and Netflix, the studios have cheapened their entire food chain
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Hollywood Is Slitting Its Own Throat With DirecTV’s Premium VOD
The math may look appealing to studios, but a 10% drop in ticket sales would close more than two-thirds of U.S. theaters
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Studio Marketers Target 11% of the Population
How Hollywood and its marketing departments read the latest numbers
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Netflix About to Hit a Brick Wall With the Studios
The company will likely have to dig deep to renew its streaming deals with content providers when they expire.
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Scoop: The Comeback of MGM and James Bond
If nothing else, the studio’s financing roller-coaster ride illustrates how the insiders in Hollywood still manage to enchant outsiders on Wall Street
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Why Does Anyone Care About The Golden Globe Infomercial?
The Globes were kick-started by the studios in the 1940s as product-placement for their movies … and they haven’t come very far since
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Why Indie Movies Are an Endangered Species
The closing of most of the studio-backed specialty distributors has spooked foreign distributors
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Edward Jay Epstein