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Regal Rebels! Not So Fast, Film Moguls: Chain Threatens To Reduce Trailer Play Time For Colluding Quartet Of Studios
Exclusive: I've learned that Regal Cinemas has come up with a specific plan to fight that newest scheme by Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, and Universal to keep undermining movie theaters. This is all about that colluding quartet's plan going into effect as early as this month offering some major pics for a “premium” Video on Demand service on DirecTV at a price point of $30 only 8 weeks after the films' theatrical release. (The norm is 4 months.) When word about this inconveniently leaked out last week at CinemaCon, the recent Las Vegas convention of studios and exhibitors, theater owners publicly expressed "strong disappointment" but privately went completely batshit. Now I'm told Regal Cinemas has decided to take matters into its own hands. My intel is that the theater chain's marketing people have just begun warning the marketing teams of the colluding quartet of studios that it's not going to be business as usual from this point on.»
- NIKKI FINKE
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MPAA: Movie Piracy Downright Un-American
In a hearing held today by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee on the negative impacts of movie content thieves, MPAA vice president Michael O'Leary made the battle against movie pirates sound downright patriotic. "The key foundation of American industry, the expectation that hard work and innovation is rewarded, is imperiled when thieves, whether online or on the street, are allowed to steal America's creative products and enrich themselves along the way," he said. "Rampant theft of American intellectual property puts the livelihoods of the workers who invest time, energy and fortune to create the filmed entertainment enjoyed by millions at risk; to these men and women and their families, digital theft means declining incomes, lost jobs and reduced health and retirement benefits. We believe that rogue sites legislation, combined with the Administration's work with intermediaries and enforcement by the Ipr Center, will»
- MIKE FLEMING
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