Scott Hettrick Quotations

The timing is such that Universal is certain 'Ray' is going to get some nominations,

It's almost impossible to lose money on a movie anymore.

The movie got great reviews, then it got six nominations. That drove DVD sales through the roof, and it landed the big award (best actor for Foxx). That was really the perfect storm for Ray .

Seinfeld' still hasn't come out at all on DVD. The final M*A*S*H (the best rated television show of all time) still isn't out. They've only gotten up to season four,

There is a flood of television series hitting the market,

There's no way to know based on that release how it stacks up against anything, which is I'm sure why they put it out the way they did and refuse to break out any numbers for DVD versus videogame, or U.S. Sales versus selected international territories, ... That leaves no possible way to create an apples-to-apples comparison.

Their biggest threat is glut of product, when suddenly parents and kids have too many animated film products available to them,

I don't know how this particular deal is structured. But the network isn't the owner of the show, it's the buyer. NBC doesn't profit from 'Friends' reruns in syndication,

The prime motivator for studios to launch a next-generation high-def home-video format is to build pricing levels back up.

Star Wars DVDs are never the biggest sellers of the year and never break any records,