6 posts and columns on Lions Gate Entertainment

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Netflix to Stream "Mad Men"

in News on April 6, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series “Mad Men,” struck a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically acclaimed show about a 1960s advertising agency.

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Groupon Gets Screen Test

in News on March 16, 2011 at 8:08 am PT

Groupon Inc. is going to the movies. The fast-growing website, which specializes in mass-emails touting daily coupons, plans to unveil a promotional tie-up with a Hollywood studio Wednesday. It is the first of many offers the site says it is planning with media companies in the coming months.

Icahn't Get Rid of Yahoo Stock Fast Enough: Billionaire Investor Pares Down

in News on May 18, 2010 at 7:15 am PT

Carl Icahn took another big step into Internet investing oblivion yesterday by dumping even more of his once-massive Yahoo stock stake. According to regulatory filings, the activist investor–who once stalked Yahoo like Captain Ahab (and just as wackily)–dumped eight million shares in the past three months, going from 12 million to four million.

YouTube Rents Movies You’ve Heard Of. Did You Know YouTube Rents Movies?

in Media on May 3, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Last month, YouTube quietly expanded its movie rental program to include titles you’ve actually heard of before. But perhaps they’ve been too quiet about it.

More Mark Cuban (Trapped in the Green Room at D7 with BoomTown and the Flip Video Camera)!

in News on June 1, 2009 at 11:05 am PT

Last week, Walt Mossberg and I interviewed entrepreneur, high-definition television fanboy, dancing fool and reliable gadfly Mark Cuban at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. After our onstage interview, BoomTown also got him to be more specific about his thoughts on a variety of things he discussed, including Google’s underwriting of its YouTube video subsidiary, the problems with broadband and the Internet as a “utility.”
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D7 Interview: Mark Cuban

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 5:33 pm PT

Mark Cuban was lucky enough to make billions on Internet video during the Web 1.0 bubble, and smart enough to cash out before it burst. He’s spent a bunch of that money on high-profile purchases like a basketball team and a Gulfstream. But much of his investment and energy since then has been directed… away from Web video and toward conventional video, in the form of movies and television. Cuban’s portfolio companies make movies and television shows and distribute them to movie theaters and television sets. And he’s been loudly skeptical about the possibilities of Web video outlets like YouTube–around the time that Google plunked down $1.6 billion on the site, he declared that “only a moron” would want to invest in it. Time to see if still feels the same way.
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