With every passing week, reports on box-office receipts come with the same anxiety as industry watchers, film companies, content owners and theater managers assess if the current year will meet or exceed the previous one. Successes like “The Hunger Games” are tempered by disappointments like “John Carter,” and embedded within each lackluster debut is the hope of compensatory revenues through later release windows, including cable, streaming, VOD, DVD/Blu-ray, and now “cloud copies.”
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Giving Movies a New Life in the Cloud
Posted by: John Barrett June 26, 2012 05:00 AMWith every passing week, reports on box-office receipts come with the same anxiety as industry watchers, film companies, content owners and theater managers assess if the current year will meet or exceed the previous one. Successes like “The Hunger Games” are tempered by disappointments like “John Carter,” and embedded within each lackluster debut is the hope of compensatory revenues through later release windows, including cable, streaming, VOD, DVD/Blu-ray, and now “cloud copies.”