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This document provides a summary of various attorneys and law firms in the entertainment industry. The attorneys represent a range of clients, including actors, directors, musicians, and production companies. They handle a variety of legal matters, such as contract negotiations, intellectual property issues, and litigation. The attorneys also discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the industry and the changing landscape of media and entertainment. Overall, these attorneys play a crucial role in supporting their clients' careers and navigating the complex legal landscape of the entertainment industry. [Extracted from the article]

On Nov. 9, 2000, Hollywood Entertainment chairman and CEO Mark Wattles held a conference call with securities analysts to discuss the company's most recent quarterly financial results. At the end [...]

When the history or he home video business is written (now there's an assignment), 1997 will likely be seen as the year the industry finally got some cards on the [...]

Home Video Faces |A' Title Drought H'wood Slump Is Challenge to Suppliers NEW YORK--Home video has long since established itself as an integral component of Hollywood economics, but over the […]

In a rare joint appearance, the CEOs of the three publicly traded video rental chains told an investor conference last week that video-on-demand and the availability of low-priced DVDs for [...]

High-definition video produces pictures of remarkably clarity, but the pictures might be the only thing clear about the development of an HD-DVD format. With the introduction of prerecorded HD-DVDs at [...]

NEW YORK -- While studios and consumer electronics companies rush to develop new high-definition platforms, the real challenge for device makers and service providers in the next five years won't [...]

NEW YORK -- With the proposed merger between DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communication now scuttled by federal regulators, the DBS companies are again focusing on competing with cable companies for [...]

Blockbuster Video last week lowered its forecasts for same-store sales growth and earnings per share for the fourth quarter and the full year, sending its stock price plunging and raising [...]

The Video Software Dealers Association has never lacked for challenges or controversy, but these days it has a plate full of both. After several years of declining income from its [...]

In the nearly 20-year history of the prerecorded video business, few propositions have occasioned as much hand-wringing and general anxiety as Zoom TV. Not since the early '80s, when the [...]

NEW YORK--In a move that could presage trouble for video distributors and rackjobbers, Buena Vista Home Video, the largest vendor of sell-through video, has decided to sell direct to the […]

By Paul Sweeting When it comes to mixing high political drama and low comedy, it would be hard to beat the French Parliamentary battle over a proposed measure to punish [...]

By Paul Sweeting Entertainment Merchants Assn. president Bo Andersen last week urged federal regulators to give close scrutiny to digital-rights-management schemes that limit the development of a robust aftermarket in [...]

Providing Video Prizes For Lotteries A Drop-In The Bucket RYE, N.Y.--Prerecorded videocassettes retain their strong appeal as premium items for marketers of other products and services, according to Steve Saferin […]

NEW YORK--Due to widespread abuses of the functional discount, the studios' concern over their own profit margins, and their increased interest in direct distribution, the major video suppliers are beginning […]

|Judgment Day' Is December 11 NEW YORK--He'll be back. Soon. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' will blast its way into video stores Dec. 11, carrying a $99.95 list price. […]

By Paul Sweeting Having staggered through a long and bruising format war with HD DVD, it would have been no real surprise had Blu-ray Disc crumpled like a spent fighter [...]

By Paul Sweeting Two seemingly unrelated events last week nonetheless each reflect a telling pattern in the development of the movie download market. The headline event was Sonic Solutions' acquisition [...]

By Paul Sweeting Beyond its already-historic nature, the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States presages the most sweeping changes in the laws and regulations [...]

By Paul Sweeting When we think about the evolution of entertainment formats, we generally think of one-for-one replacement cycles. The CD replaced the LP and audiocassette; DVD replaced VHS; MP3 [...]

By Paul Sweeting In the end, I suspect, the studios felt they had no choice but to bring a lawsuit against RealNetworks in an effort to shut down sales of [...]

By Paul Sweeting There was good news and bad news for the studios at last week's HDTV 2008 conference sponsored by DisplaySearch. The good news is that DVDs --by far [...]

By Paul Sweeting On one level, Real-Networks' announcement last week of a software program for copying DVDs to a hard drive or portable storage medium--RealDVD--was no big deal. Ever since [...]

By Paul Sweeting The ever-active Apple rumor mill has been whirring since the company's third-quarter earnings call last month, when chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer referred cryptically to a 'future [...]

By Paul Sweeting The home video business seems to be going back to the future. In reprise of its performance in the late '80s and early '90s, the video rental [...]

By Paul Sweeting Despite the billions it has made for the studios over the past three decades, the home video business has never gotten a lot of respect, either from [...]

By Paul Sweeting Pull in to Blockbuster and fill 'er up. That's the basic idea behind the in-store download kiosk that Blockbuster chairman/CEO Jim Keyes unveiled in New York this [...]

By Paul Sweeting Last week, as I was reporting the story on the studios' plans for an early, high-def video-on-demand window, as spelled out in a petition to the Federal [...]

Paul Sweeting WASHINGTON-Although I moderated the copyright panel at the Internet Video Policy Symposium here on March 19 (co-sponsored by VB ), it was not a good day for the [...]

By Paul Sweeting In his annual State of the Industry address at the ShoWest theater-owners convention last week, Motion Picture Assn. of America CEO Dan Glickman offered a mostly upbeat [...]

By Paul Sweeting It took investors a day to figure it out, but they got it about right in the end. After pummeling shares of Blockbuster and Netflix on Tuesday [...]