Home Media Magazine - October 19-25, 2008 - (Page 3) www.homemediamagazine.com MENU FROM THE EDITOR BY THOMAS K. ARNOLD, PUBLISHER www.homemediamagazine.com To Our Readers: A Call to Action PUBLISHER & EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Thomas K. Arnold EDITOR IN CHIEF Stephanie Prange EDITORIAL Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angelique Flores Senior Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Gruenwedel Senior Reporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Tribbey Assistant Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Latchem Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Billy Gil, Kyra Kudick Contributors. . . . . . . . . John Gaudiosi, Anne Sherber, Fred Topel, Ralph Tribbey, Holly J. Wagner Intern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laleh Ghalambor I ART Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Our fore- currently use our print and digital products, and how you most goal is to provide you with the tools, information rate them. and resources necessary to improve your business, and we How much time do you spend with our print magazine, want to know how we are doing — specifically, what we our digital edition, our Web site, our Home Media Screencould be doing better. ing Room or the daily e-news blast? Do you pass them The studios and independent DVD/Blu-ray Disc suppliers pay around? Do you clip articles, charts or reviews and file them our bills, through advertising and other means away for later use? What do you find useful, of financial support. Their customers are our WE LIKE TO SPREAD OUR and what can you live without? And what customers — you, the readers of Home Media TENTACLES AS FAR AS else can we be doing that could benefit your Magazine — and the better we serve you, the WE CAN, SO WE CAN business? better we’re going to do. BECOME EVANGELISTS, IF We’d also like to hear from our consumer The days when our sole endeavor was pub- YOU WILL, FOR THE HOME readers. We like to spread our tentacles as lishing a weekly print magazine are long gone. ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS. far as we can, so we can become evangeThese days, we have a whole suite of print and lists, if you will, for the home entertaindigital products, and their common objective is not so much to ment business. Suppliers, retailers, consumers — we want help the studios sell you DVDs and Blu-ray Discs but, rather, to bring everyone in the food chain together, give them to help you run a better business. what they need, give them what they want, and then build In the coming weeks, we’d like to fine tune what we have and on that to become something akin to the office water cooler develop new ways of helping you run your business in a more of home entertainment. efficient, and more effective, way. Thanks, in advance, for your help. To guide us, we’d like your input. Please e-mail me at tarnold@questex.com if you’d like to be interviewed by Thomas K. Arnold’s e-mail address is tarnold@questex.com MARKETING Marketing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristina Kronenberg 714/338-6743 Marketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaitlyn DeWaard IN THIS ISSUE OCT. 19-25, 2008 / VOL. 30 / NO. 41 News …………………………… CALENDAR I STREAMING MEDIA WEST The conference on all things digital delivery will feature multiple concurrent tracks each day on such subjects as social media and reinventing advertising. Oct. 27-30 Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. info: www.digitalhollywood.com/LAFall08Agenda.html DIGITAL MEDIA Online Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Rosado PRODUCTION Production Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnie Ling Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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This year’s event will have 513 film screenings, including 102 world premieres. Nov. 5-12 Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, Calif. info: www.ifta-online.org/afm/home.asp CREDIT Credit/Collections Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ron Wright Sr. CIRCULATION For subscriptions, please go online to www.homemediamagazine.com For current single copy, back issues or CD-ROM, call 866/344-1315 or 847/763-9594 for outside the U.S. Audience Development Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heidi Spangler News ………………………… The Incredible Hulk Blu-ray Disc promises insomnia-inducing imagery; a Samsung player comes with the Matrix BD set. BUSINESS QUESTEX MEDIA GROUP INC. President & CEO: Kerry C. Gumas; Executive Vice President & CFO: Tom Caridi; Executive Vice President: Robert S. 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Nov. 11 InterContinental Hotel and Resorts, Los Angeles. info: homemediaconferences.com CBS and YouTube partner for TV streams; Warner content hits the DivX format; Pioneer has new DVD-burning drives. HM’s Thomas K. Arnold and Kristina Kronenberg with Sony Pictures’ Barron Postmus. Research ……………………… 18 Printed in the U.S.A. The chart toppers were spread out, with Disney’s Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition Reviews ………………………… taking top DVD seller, Fox’s The Happening taking Is the Quentin Tarantino-produced biker opus Hell top rental, and Paramount’s Iron Man once again Ride worth the trip? Should you rush to check out dominating the Blu-ray sales chart. Speed Racer on Blu-ray Disc? Is Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens an effective portrait of the famed Top 20 DVD Sellers ……………………… 18 photographer? Top 20 Rentals and Top 10 Charts ……… 19 Pipeline ………………………… 15 Just Announced ……………… 22 Warner’s JFK: Ultimate Collector’s Edition comes loaded Universal delivers Wanted; Paramount unleashes with bonus material, including a new documentary Tropic Thunder; Lionsgate has Tyler Perry’s The and previously unseen memorabilia. Family That Preys. October 19–25, 2008 Home Media Magazine http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.digitalhollywood.com/LAFall08Agenda.html http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.ifta-online.org/afm/home.asp http://www.homemediaconferences.com
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