More Articles Carl DiOrio

• Resolutions and wishes
  It’s a new year, so why not a new attitude? No more hand-wringing over video industry consolidation and assorted threats to packaged media. More
  
• A sort of civil service
  We’ll be partying famously tonight....On Dec. 5, Video Business stages our 25th Video Hall of Fame gala. And appropriately enough, in our silver anniversary year, the latest lineup of inductees would seem to underscore the affair’s established eminence. More
  
• BUSINESS AS USUAL
  To read stories by mainstream feature writers--who tomorrow will file stories on women's hemlines or downtown nightspots--studios are this close to sending major new movie releases simultaneously to theaters and video.... More
  
• Shrek 2 DVDs subject of lawsuit
  Shareholders sue DreamWorks alleging misleading projections More
  
• EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE
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• Gallery on target for first quarter
  Expects same-store sales at high end of forecast More
  
• CONVENTIONAL THINKING
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• THROUGH BLURRED WINDOWS
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• Blockbuster raises Hollywood bid
  Improves on Movie Gallery's offer by 9% More
  
• TV-on-DVD gets popular
  Music DVD sales also surge More
  
• Average cost of a movie: $102.9 million
  FROM VARIETY: 15% rise from previous year; Valenti confirms exit. More
  
• Disney has the Muppets well in hand
  Company also acquires Bear in the Big Blue House from Henson Co. More
  
• Company eyes stock swap, auction block for retailer
  FROM VARIETY: Company eyes stock swap, auction block for retailer More
  
• Lost in Translation plays it both ways
  FROM VARIETY: Film expands in theaters as it hits video shelves. More
  
• Pixar breaks off talks with Disney
  Jobs says 'we're moving on' after sides can't agree on new distribution deal. More
  
• Sources: Time Warner and MGM talking merger
  FROM VARIETY: As former distributor of Lion's video, TW knows the catalog. More
  
• MGM, New Line on Rentrak movie marquee
  All majors except Warner, Sony on board for tracking service. More
  
• EchoStar in the bidding for more birds
  Offer made to buy Lorel's six satellites for about $1.5 billion. More
  
• MGM bids adieu to bidding to buy Vivendi U
  FROM VARIETY: Studio says $14 billion asking piece is too high. More
  
• James Bond is there to boost MGM in 2nd quarter
  Red ink rises, but revenue jumps 44% powered by Die Another Day . More