Free Republic

DreamWorks hit by SEC probe Movie studio forecasts a loss for the 2Q on lower-than-expected DVD sales; stock tumbles. July 11, 2005: 3:19 PM EDT By Krysten Crawford, CNN/Money staff writer NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - For at least two months now DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg has been scratching his head over a new and worrisome question: Why isn't the most popular animation film ever released in theaters, "Shrek 2," flying off video store shelves? According to Katzenberg, teams from DreamWorks and its distribution partner, Universal Studios Home Video, have been working hard to find the answer ever since...

Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey is appalled that a serial killer's lurid, videotaped confession to police is being sold on the Internet by the man's father. Randolph "Duke" White, father of self-professed serial killer Richard Paul White, is marketing two volumes of his son's confession at $39.95 apiece. The DVDs detail White's brutal murders of Annaletia Maria Gonzales and Victoria Turpin, whose bodies were buried in the back yard of his former Park Hill home, and of his friend Jason Reichardt. "I personally find it disgusting and offensive," Morrissey said. Gonzales' father, Larry, said he was deeply angered by the...

September 17, 2004 DVD SALES OF “THE PASSION” ENRAGE CRITICS The Mel Gibson movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” has been available on DVD for less than three weeks and already it has sold 9 million copies, breaking all previous records. But not everyone is happy: noting its DVD/VHS release, about 100 theologians have now signed a statement condemning the film for being anti-Semitic. Commenting on this is Catholic League president William Donohue: “The success of ‘The Passion of the Christ’ conclusively demonstrates that the unethical campaign to censor the movie and malign the millions who love it has been...