Share Summer recently ended and with it finished the biggest season for the U.S. Box Office. This time period is generally considered to run between the first weekend of May and the end of Labor Day weekend. While this spans only a third of the year this summer season contributes close to half of the [...]

Share Facebook has been in the news a lot lately, sometimes making good headlines, other times bad, and still other times it’s gotten ugly. The good news was actually great- Facebook announced that it had reached 500 million registered users. This is especially impressive since two years ago they had only 100 million users. The [...]

Share During 2008 and 2009 the domestic box office grew by double digits, outpacing the overall annual growth. This trend is likely to repeat this year as first quarter results passed $2.4 billion, 10.2% over last year and over a third bigger than where it was in 2006. dtsv.dtse_post_1907_permalink = ‘http://betweenthescreens.com/2010/03/q1-box-office-gets-bigger/’; dtsv.dtse_post_1907_title = ‘Q1 box [...]

Share James Cameron’s latest film Avatar has had yet another strong weekend at the box office, making $50.3 million and breaking the record for biggest four weekend gross, previously held by Cameron’s penultimate film Titanic. Despite having not such a spectacular opening weekend, Avatar has maintained dropped off less than most movies and has already [...]

Share Avatar, James Cameron’s new film, premiered to the public late last night. Since James Cameron’s last movie, Titanic, is currently the number one domestic grossing movie of all time, in the long term Avatar is expected to do well and a lot of articles are appearing that are trying to predict and compare its potential success. The Economist [...]

Share The second installment of the “Twilight Saga,” New Moon, had an extremely successful opening last weekend, grossing $142,839,137 domestically, which is the the third highest weekend opening of all time. Unfortunately, the following weekend the movie made substantially less substantially less, only $42,870,031, a drop of over 70% which is much greater than what [...]

Share Apple has an impressive position in the music market. Through its iTunes store, the company currently has a 69% share of the U.S. digital music market and a 25% share of the total U.S. music market. Their position isn’t as strong however in the video market. This is especially apparent when you compare iTunes music [...]

Share I recently attended Advertising Week in New York City and had a lot to hear from some very eloquent speakers. Here are the top 10 moments that I found to be inspiring, provocative or at least original. (10) Changing Roles: It seemed to me that change was a prevalent theme at the conference and [...]

Share For the past few years the home video industry has been undergoing some traumatic changes. Although there was an almost seamless transition from the VHS to the DVD format, the shift to a high definition disc format has been stifled as a result of the format battle between HD and Blue-Ray. It’s also possible [...]

Share The summer ended today and it seems to have been a mediocre season for Hollywood. The total U.S. box office gross between Memorial Day and Labor Day was $4.3 billion, which is 1.4% less than 2008 but 4% above 2007 per Variety. At the beginning of the summer the box office was 24% above last [...]