The numbers behind the industry.

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• Hollywood's New Year My predictions for 2006.
  Edward Jay Epstein Dec. 26, 2005
  
• Meltdown The real reason why Paramount bought DreamWorks.
  Edward Jay Epstein Dec. 19, 2005
  
• The Schizoid Split in Movies Will digital effects ruin Hollywood?
  Edward Jay Epstein Dec. 12, 2005
  
• Hollywood's New Axis of Evil Why do businessmen wear the black hat?
  Edward Jay Epstein Dec. 5, 2005
  
• Downloading for Dollars The future of Hollywood has arrived.
  Edward Jay Epstein Nov. 28, 2005
  
• Hollywood's Big Loss No more free money from Germany.
  Edward Jay Epstein Nov. 21, 2005
  
• Movies for Adults Why Hollywood won't make them anytime soon.
  Edward Jay Epstein Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Games That Moguls Play Sumner Redstone's next move.
  Edward Jay Epstein Nov. 7, 2005
  
• The World According to Hollywood Pushing the reality envelope.
  Edward Jay Epstein Oct. 31, 2005
  
• Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood? His plan to break the video window.
  Edward Jay Epstein Oct. 24, 2005
  
• Neither the Power Nor the Glory Why Hollywood leaves originality to the indies.
  Edward Jay Epstein Oct. 17, 2005
  
• The Great Illusionist Harvey Weinstein rides again.
  Edward Jay Epstein Oct. 10, 2005
  
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Why Pixar can't leave Disney.
  Edward Jay Epstein Oct. 3, 2005
  
• The War for the Couch Potato It's cable vs. satellite.
  Edward Jay Epstein Sept. 26, 2005
  
• Hollywood's Biggest Blunders Inexplicable decisions of the new moguls.
  Edward Jay Epstein Sept. 19, 2005
  
• The Indie Game The secret to success is a Hollywood star.
  Edward Jay Epstein Sept. 12, 2005
  
• The Iger Fatwa Does it mean goodbye to the movies?
  Edward Jay Epstein Sept. 6, 2005
  
• Send in the Aliens They're the last hope for the foreign box office.
  Edward Jay Epstein Aug. 29, 2005
  
• The Next Big Thing Sony's Blu-Ray DVD.
  Edward Jay Epstein Aug. 22, 2005
  
• Sex and the Cinema In the New Hollywood, it's a liability.
  Edward Jay Epstein Aug. 15, 2005
  
• Hollywood's Profits, Demystified The real El Dorado is TV.
  Edward Jay Epstein Aug. 8, 2005
  
• Hollywood's Death Spiral, Part 2 Are movie theaters facing extinction?
  Edward Jay Epstein Aug. 1, 2005
  
• Hollywood's Death Spiral The secret numbers tell the story.
  Edward Jay Epstein July 25, 2005
  
• Hidden Persuaders The secretive research group that helps run the movie business.
  Edward Jay Epstein July 18, 2005
  
• Romancing the Hedge Funds Hollywood's new golden goose.
  Edward Jay Epstein July 11, 2005
  
• The Vanishing Box Office A terminal condition.
  Edward Jay Epstein July 5, 2005
  
• Tom Cruise Inc. The numbers behind his celebrity.
  Edward Jay Epstein June 27, 2005
  
• Dumb Money The madness of movie advertising.
  Edward Jay Epstein June 6, 2005
  
• The Midas Formula How to create a billion-dollar movie franchise.
  Edward Jay Epstein May 31, 2005
  
• Nicole Kidman's Knee Or, how the insurance business runs Hollywood.
  Edward Jay Epstein May 20, 2005
  
• Gross Misunderstanding Forget about the box office.
  Edward Jay Epstein May 16, 2005
  
• Concessions Are for Girlie Men Arnold Schwarzenegger's absurdly advantageous contract for Terminator 3.
  Edward Jay Epstein May 9, 2005
  
• Paranoia for Fun and Profit How Disney and Michael Moore cleaned up on Fahrenheit 9/11.
  Edward Jay Epstein May 3, 2005
  
• How To Finance a Hollywood Blockbuster Start with a German tax shelter.
  Edward Jay Epstein April 25, 2005
  
• How Did Michael Eisner Make Disney Profitable? Not with cartoons.
  Edward Jay Epstein April 18, 2005