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  1. Josh Steinberg

    Universal lays off restoration unit?

    It is. They’ve shifted with the times. Digital partnerships with streaming outlets that get their content seen. Physical releases for content that continues to sell, fewer BD releases in niches that didn’t have the numbers to back it up. As far as I know, from the outside looking in, they’re...
  2. Josh Steinberg

    Universal lays off restoration unit?

    That’s what sunk Twilight Time. Their business model worked when it was understood that $30 was the price per disc and that there were no sales. But once they started doing a once a year sale, people held out for sales and product stopped moving on release day. And then they had to do more sales...
  3. Josh Steinberg

    Universal lays off restoration unit?

    As someone who used to be on the inside with a smaller label, I can tell you that this is what matters most. Fair or not, preorders and first week sales numbers are the ones that matter. If you’re waiting to buy something you want until Amazon has it down to $5, it means that all parties have...
  4. Josh Steinberg

    Universal lays off restoration unit?

    They actually couldn’t have. Part of the sale terms included giving up the Fox name. And as a brand identity thing, it makes a lot of sense. The name “Fox” now carries much different connotation than its historical origins due to the other divisions of Murdoch’s company, to the point where top...
  5. Josh Steinberg

    Universal lays off restoration unit?

    What does Disney have to do with anything? Fox doesn’t exist anymore because the Murdoch family decided it didn’t want to be in the movie studio business and sold the company to a competitor. Comcast (Universal’s parent company) was the other bidder and could have wound up buying Fox, and the...
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