He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.
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Sony Pictures offered its 2008 Will Smith film "Hancock" and its animated 2009 "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" early to users of its Bravia TV before the films were out on DVD.
But in Paramount's case, the studio's moves have angered theater owners, who fear that if consumers get used to films coming out on DVD just weeks after they've been in theaters, they'll forgo the tickets and popcorn and just watch movies at home.
The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.
Especially considering in many cases the films will be available on DVD in another month.
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The first step in calculating our payback figures required adding up the film's worldwide box office and U.S. DVD revenues for films released prior to June 2007.
The development of video and DVD meant he could watch films at home but said it did not rule his life.
It is an industry of alternative films which, despite generally going straight to DVD, have become very popular in regions of Mexico and the US plagued by drug violence, according to the BBC.
Imagine if your local video store only had VHS tapes of Warner Brothers Movies, but offered Limited Edition DVD's of all Sony pictures films.
Talks that began this summer failed to produce much progress on the writers' key demands for a bigger slice of DVD profits and revenue from the distribution of films and TV shows over the Internet.
"Go into any DVD store and for one dinar, all these films are available, " she said.
No need to be a purist about the bounties of DVD, which aren't confined to feature films.
To complement its benchmark Greta Garbo box on standard DVD, Warner Archive has released 10 more of her films.
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Here in Britain, films of her genre are more likely to be given away on DVD as weekend newspaper supplements.
He also talked thoughtfully about the effect on cinema of the two biggest technical developments in the period over which the Star Wars films were made: computerised special effects and the rise of the DVD.
To compile our list, we looked at each star's last three films that opened wide before Jan. 1 (in order to give each film time for a DVD release).
Films are usually low-budget, star locally famous actors and are filmed, edited and released on DVD or VCD within a month -- going on sale at local marketplaces across Nigeria.
Though shrinking due to piracy and streaming services, DVD sales generally make up a large percentage of the total gross for a movie studio, and animated films tend to do particularly well in this area.
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