Share Earlier this year a new premium cable channel called Epix was announced as a joint venture between Viacom (Paramount), Lionsgate and MGM. This initiative was partly motivated by pressure of Showtime in 2008 to lower the fees it paid to these same three movie studios, who will likely also move their movies away from Showtime in the long [...]

Share This past weekend Watchmen opened with an estimated $55.7 million. This is the sixth largest opening for an R-rated film, and the twelfth-largest for a movie adapted from a comic book. Still, Watchmen was heavily hyped and was expected to open stronger given its similarity to 300, another Warner Bros. comic book movie also directed by [...]