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Blockbuster’s finances were in a precarious position when Keyes took its helm in 2007. Fresh from his success reviving 7-Eleven, where he served as chief from 2000-2005, Keyes wasted no time ...
You see, back when I was a child, our community had a couple of thriving local video stores that were the source of pretty much endless enjoyment for me. Then Blockbuster came along.
The following is a partial list of films that lost the most money, based on documented losses or estimated by expert analysis of various financial factors such as the production budget, marketing and distribution costs, gross box-office receipts and other ancillary revenues.
A box-office bomb [a] is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to ...
In a move that is long overdue -- like returning that Blockbuster copy of Turner & Hooch that mistakenly sat as a beer coaster for a couple of weeks a few years ago -- DISH Network's (NAS: DISH ...
The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For.. The Bechdel test (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl), [1] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction.
The birth of the summer blockbuster started with some low bass notes and a terrifying dorsal fin. On June 20, 1975, Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" hit theaters and scared everyone out of the ocean.
In the United States, a film's box office gross in its second weekend of theatrical release is one of several factors used to predict overall box office performance. Most films experience a decline in box office gross in their second weekend, but a significant decline often indicates a subpar box office performance for the rest of a film's theatrical run.