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Day and Date Distribution
Some Day and Date Numbers So Far
Against Day and Date
For Day and Date
Forms of Piracy
What is Piracy
Piracy Stats
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Online Distribution
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Day and Date Distribution

by Jarrett Tan

The movie industry has been in a bit of a funk, with overall box office numbers declining the last couple of years. Some blame it on the lack of quality movies, some on the shrinking gap between a movie's premiere in theaters and its debut in video stores (from six months a few years ago to about four months or less today), while others attribute this decline to the rise of piracy.

Last year, Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s media company, 2929 Entertainment, released Steve Soderbergh's low-budget, minimalist, no-star movie "Bubble" opened nearly simultaneously in theaters, video stores and homes. This became known as Day and Date Distribution. Many in the movie industry have been against that form of distribution, fearing that it would make movie attendances decline even further.

Day and Date Positives

Day and Date Negatives

Some Day and Date Box Office Numbers So Far


Research Brief ] Production Costs ] Crew Sizes ] Industrial Changes ] Image Quality ] Aesthetics & Style ] New Filmmakers ] Smaller Productions ] Big Productions ] Julia Morris ] Christopher Grose ] Post Production ] Distribution ] Cinemas ] Digital Distribution ] Digital Projectors ] Analogue Distribution of Digital Films ] Sharmill Films ] MPDAA ] David Hawkins ] Simone Govic ] Franziska Wagenfeld ] [ Day and Date Distribution ] Some Day and Date Numbers So Far ] Against Day and Date ] For Day and Date ] Forms of Piracy ] What is Piracy ] Piracy Stats ] Combating Piracy ] Online Distribution ] Exhibition Costs ] New forms of Exhibition ] References ]

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