Coming Soon to a TV Near You: Hollywood's Latest Blockbusters
- Studios, theater chains contending with slow sales growth
- Universal, Warner, Fox said to be aggressively pursuing change
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The span between a movie’s theatrical debut and home-video release is likely to get shorter -- as soon as this year.
As movie theaters and studios converge this week in Las Vegas for an annual gathering, the looming change to the industry will be heavy on executives’ minds. Theater chains have long resisted the idea of letting studios release movies direct to consumers any sooner than 90 days after the films arrive in the cinemaplex, but reality is starting to set in.