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Lack of Perspective: When Determination Leads to Disaster

Tom Spencer

Consider Kodak, a company famous for its photographic film products. It persisted so much with its film-based business model that it failed to appreciate the opportunities and threats of digital photography, a technology that the company itself invented in 1975.

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Job Hub: Pixar Animation Studios Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Pixar Animation Studios, a California-based subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is a fun filled company that has changed the face of the movie industry. Pixar is now the creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including “Toy Story”, “Monsters, Inc.”, billion dollars.

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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show. Interactive product placement.

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How Will Theatre (Everyone) Deal with New Realities?!

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

I was on a boat once with a tech CEO that does business in theatre, he said that the industry is “In a race to be first to be second.” In a competitive environment you risk being a me too product that has to fight on commodity attributes or the market has moved by the time you get there. This puts pressure on the downside of VUCA.

Sports 52
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France Goes After Actor Salaries; Sunday Shopping "Reform" French Style

MishTalk

A move is underway in France to cut aid to movies if the salaries of the stars is too high a percentage of the cost of production. The Wall Street Journal reports In France, Popular Actors May Pay for Change in Funding for Films. In trade negotiations, the film subsidy has been targeted by the U.S. Effective Jan. million ($1.85

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

The sites fall into the same category as video-on-demand services, the organization said; so they would be subject to French cultural protection laws that require distributors to hand over some of their revenues to help subsidize productions. Subsidies For Films No One Watches Forbes has some interesting comments as well. billion ($1.8

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. However, it does indicate the industry’s optimism. Neither is the relationship one sided: tech firms need the engineering and manufacturing expertise that only the automobile industry can provide.

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