Bruce Nash explores the world of data modeling and information services
There’s been more news this week on RedBox and online distribution, following the Disney/Marvel acquisition announcement on Monday.
Video Business summed up the latest on RedBox yesterday. The brief version:
1. Indie rental stores are launching a campaign to persuade people to avoid RedBox because it’s “putting the entire entertainment industry at risk.”
2. SNL Kagan has released [...]
Disney’s acquisition of Marvel for $4 billion took the entertainment world by storm yesterday, with speculation centered around whether Disney had paid too much, and how they will integrate Marvel’s characters into the Disney brand.
From a purely financial perspective, I think the deal is risky, particularly because Marvel’s characters aren’t a good match for Disney’s [...]
I just published our final predictions for tonight’s Oscars. As I mentioned in a previous post, these are based on votes in our annual Predict the Oscars competition. It’s the eleventh time we’ve run the competition, and our readers generally score about 70%.
So, if No Country for Old Men wins Best Picture tonight, and the [...]
With all this talk of the Presidential Primaries, I’ve been neglecting another popularity contest that will be unfolding during February. I refer, of course, to the Academy Awards.
This is something I’ve been tracking for quite a while, using an online contest at The Numbers to produce predictions for the winners in each category. [...]
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