More Articles By Scott Hettrick

• What’s in a title?
  Obvious home video bright spots in 2005 were the $342 million spent on The Incredibles , $60 million spent on the second season of Chappelle’s Show and $78 million on DVD premiere Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. More
  
• Warner creates Latino brand
  Following up on Spanish-language success during September's Hispanic Heritage Month, Warner Home Video has created a new brand for Latino videos targeted for U.S. consumers and added a fitness title in a batch of titles set for Feb. 28. More
  
• Liberty to create Liberation
  I.R.S. Records co-founder and former MCA Records president Jay Boberg has purchased Liberty International Entertainment and created a new video distribution company called Liberation Entertainment. More
  
• Digital Question Man
  If we’re going to start talking about a future of video downloads (apparently the new cool thing instead of streaming video) and electronic delivery and storage of movies versus physical media, I have a few questions. More
  
• Lionsgate boosts Latino offerings
  Lionsgate has acquired the North American home video, theatrical and video-on-demand distribution rights to indie producer/distributor Mach 8's upcoming releases and the company's 62-title library, most of which have been released only in Mexico. More
  
• Board of Review honors Feltenstein
  George Feltenstein, senior VP theatrical catalog marketing for Warner Home Video, was presented with the National Board of Review’s William K. Everson Film History Award on Jan. 10. More
  
• Batman, Baby ,  Potter  to go high-def
  Early adopters will have plenty of high-definition discs on offer, such as Warner Home Video’s Batman Begins and Million Dollar Baby set for March 28 release and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on April 11, all in HD DVD. More
  
• Glass half-full but cracked?
  Here’s a quick glance at the U.S. entertainment industry in 2005: • Theatrical movie grosses: down. • Number of people actually going to movie theaters: way down. • Videogame revenue: down significantly. • Home video spending: down slightly. More
  
• DEG honors Best Buy, Target
  DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group awarded its annual prize for best hardware and software retailers of the year to Best Buy and Target at a reception Thursday evening at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More
  
• Consumer spending down for '05
  Warner still tops in market share More
  
• Fournier docks at Anchor Bay
  Appointed company’s senior VP marketing More
  
• Head scratchers
  Is the Weinstein DVD deal really a Genius move? Is Paramount ’s deal really a Dream in the Works for that studio and a nightmare loss for Universal ?  More
  
• Warner Wal-Mart’s captain no longer?
  Fox, others vie for retailer’s affections More
  
• Pornography pays
  Adult video industry estimated at $4.3 billion More
  
• Time for bold thinking
  Marvel Studios top exec Avi Arad wants to go Disney chairman Robert Iger one better than releasing movies on DVD closer or simultaneous to their theatrical release. More
  
• DuBow moves to First Look
  Former MGM exec to manage U.S. sales More
  
• 50GB Blu-ray Disc release delayed
  But Disney's Chapek wants it 'from the get-go' More
  
• Uni brings it for DVD premieres
  $10 million campaigns push franchise titles at retail More
  
• Take the blinders off
  After nitpicking for four months about whether the market had slowed down to low single-digit growth or mid- to high single-digit growth, it appears by some measures that the market is not up at all but has slipped into negative territory for perhaps the first time ever. More
  
• Mobile since the '60s
  OK, now everyone is just getting out-of-control silly. And that’s a nice way of characterizing the flurry of goofy deals in the last couple weeks between Disney and Apple , CBS and Comcast , and NBC and DirecTV . More