The big studios haven't agreed on how or whether to release gore-free and sex-free versions of popular DVDs.
Four of the big studios have announced plans to cut the number of films they produce by 10%.
The front runners in the other categories all come from the big studios.
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His attitude happens for now to be aligned with the interests of the big studios, which own most of the distributors.
BitTorrent may have not made many friends among the big studios with its protocol that has allowed people to share a huge amount of copyrighted content.
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Last year a torrent of Wall Street money, which had allowed the big studios and independent outfits to share the risk and expense of making films, abruptly dried up.
If the film wins, it will be the first time since 2006 that the Best Picture winner has come from the main division of one of the big studios.
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This is a perfect example of what I wrote yesterday about why the big studios really need to focus on blockbusters with lots of spin-off potential even if it means no more mid-budget movies.
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He is already preparing for this day by trying to persuade the big Hollywood studios to record and distribute their movies digitally using Sony's systems.
The big Hollywood studios are alarmed at the potential for "file-sharing" - recording programmes and then sending them to friends with PVRs - which they see as a form of piracy which damages the interests of rights holders.
None of this is likely to give much comfort to the big movie studios and record labels, which have usually (though certainly not always) aimed their enforcement efforts at those who facilitate distribution of pirated content as opposed to those who download it.
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Hollywood's ability to respond quickly to change has helped the film business to remain stable, with the same number of big studios now as in the early 20th century.
If 3-D can make up for that lost revenue, it will make a big different to the major studios which are divisions of big public companies like Disney, Time Warner, News Corp.
All the big five movie studios have told Google to remove Android apps that "pirate" content, reports Reuters.
The difference is that game makers tend to be small and independent, with neither the Hollywood studios' big pipeline of projects to smooth out the business bumps nor backing from the television stations and book publishers that are the studios' sister firms.
And the record companies and big Hollywood studios and other members of the old entertainment industry?
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Granted, the film business is dominated by big studios and heavy with middle managers.
Secondly, the closure of big console-based studios has been followed by an explosion of small start-up companies.
Then there's the credit crunch, which will likely force movie studios to shoulder more of the risk of big-budget flops.
"That takes years of planning, and studios often want the next big thing for the following summer, " says Bock.
The end of a system which had allowed the big film companies to effectively control stars' pay and publicity, meant the studios could no longer hush up personal scandals for fear of damaging a star's reputation, says Mann.
Ms. Mayer credited the company for its already rich base of big-brand advertisers, which include all of the major film studios.
That price differential attracts big studios that are shopping around for the cheapest place to film.
Some will be big-budget action flicks distributed by the studios.
Although NBC is owned by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), it is not a part of a stable of production houses, recording studios and cable outlets the way its Big Four peers are--each of them part of an entire content distribution chain.
Big studios movies were also well-represented at the awards this year, though not in the acting categories.
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But, as big as the stakes in those discussions are, the movie studios are even more keen on the outcome of the talks on the 39th floor of Toshiba's Tokyo headquarters.
The challenge there: So far, no big television or movie studios are willing to get on board with Apple.
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Any doubts about 38 Studios credibility vanished in 2009, when the company acquired Big Huge Games for an undisclosed price from game publisher THQ.
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