{"id":1746,"date":"2010-05-03T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/studios-hit-with-homevideo-slump\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:38:01","slug":"studios-hit-with-homevideo-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/studios-hit-with-homevideo-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Studios hit with homevideo slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/a330.g.akamai.net\/7\/330\/23382\/20100224224800\/www.variety.com\/graphics\/photos\/_storypics\/Page-One-Chart-redux-050310.jpg \/><\/p>\n<p>Domestic box office hit a record $10.6 billion in 2009 according to the MPAA and is on track to soar even higher this year. Worldwide box office hit $29.9 billion in 2009, up 7.6% over 2008.<br \/>\n<br \/>The Blu-ray disc biz also boomed in the first quarter of 2010 vs. the same period last year, with sell-through up 74% and rentals up 36%, per trade org Digital Entertainment Group. Digital distribution, including download purchases and VOD, rose 27% to $617 million.<\/p>\n<p>So why are the studios capping star salaries, laying off workers and squeezing suppliers?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118018573.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1 target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118018573.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic box office hit a record $10.6 billion in 2009 according to the MPAA and is on track to soar even higher this year. Worldwide box office hit $29.9 billion in 2009, up 7.6% over 2008. The Blu-ray disc biz also boomed in the first quarter of 2010 vs. the same period last year, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/studios-hit-with-homevideo-slump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Studios hit with homevideo slump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}