Landmark Theaters Employee Union

Has any landmark employee had the enjoyment of Bill Banowsky coming to your market for a full-market meeting? I got back from one and oh boy was it fun. I thought he'd be vague with the whole purpose of his trip (pre-emptive union busting obviously) but nope within his opening paragraph he mentioned unions. It's funny how fast landmark can move if their bottom line may get hurt. And if landmark think a 35 minute meeting with the CEO and a lot of vague promises will smooth everything over, landmark has truly lost touch with their employees.

Read Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture? published December 18th in the New York Times.

Check out Cuban's response on his blog, if you can't already guess what it is.

Oh, and if you are still searching for that perfect Christmas present (assuming you are not at war with the holiday) perhaps you would like to look into one of Mark Cuban's other investments.

Try not to get too high tonight while you're watching The Colbert Report because our fearless leader, Mark Cuban, is going to be on.

Do you think he knows it's satire?

From Indiewire

by Brian Brooks (November 4, 2005)
New York-based Magnolia Pictures is officially launching its own home video division the company announced today, revealing the slate for the new unit. The division, called Magnolia Home Entertainment, is headed by home entertainment industry vet Randy Wells who served as vice president of home entertainment at Miramax. The new entity is part of Magnolia parent company 2929 Entertainment’s pursuit of a “vertically integrated distribution” plan and will initially release two to four titles per month in its first year.

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