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There’s encouraging news for Hollywood in the latest annual five-year business forecast from consulting firm PwC. After four years of declining U.S. filmed entertainment revenues, hitting a recent low of $28.2 billion last year, the latest projection anticipates $29.1 billion in 2015 consistently rising to $35.3…

Streaming services led by Netflix, plus time shifting, hurt home entertainment spending far more in 2014 than you would have thought from last week’s year-end report from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group – and will continue to damage the industry in 2015 – MoffettNathanson Research’s Michael Nathanson says this…

Hollywood continued to have a slipped disc problem in 2014: Consumer spending for home video dropped slightly after two years of relatively flat sales according to data out today from DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Buyers spent $17.8 billion to buy or rent videos last year, a 1.8% drop from 2013. That follows…

By a hair, I mean a 1.4% gain in total consumer rental and purchase spending to $8.4B, according to data released today by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Netflix and, to a lesser extent, Amazon and Hulu Plus deserve most of the credit for the uptick: Spending on subscription streaming services was up 430.2% to…