Todd Wagner
Todd Wagner
Todd R. Wagnerco-founded Broadcast.com and now co-owns 2929 Entertainment with Mark Cuban, along with other entertainment properties and has also founded the Todd Wagner Foundation...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 August 1960
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Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.
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Our argument is that people want to go to the movie theaters because they want to go to the movie theater. It's not about seeing it just because it's not at home. I have food at home, too, but I still go to restaurants.
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We can make a movie, put it on our TV stations, put it in our own theaters, and we didn't need anybody's blessing to do that.
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Steven was like, 'Well, I've got some movies that might make sense if you guys are willing to do this. 'Well, yeah, let's sit down and figure out how we can do this.' If Todd and Mark say it, it's one thing. If Steven says it, too, it adds a whole new credibility level.
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Steven's A-list credibility has made the community take us more seriously, has accelerated the process and brought it into the open. Steven will help. Writing checks for 'Enron' will help.
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Landmark has always had a tremendous commitment to promoting independent film. Having Mercury as such an important and strategic ally in our continued efforts will immediately create opportunities essential to the continued growth and success of independent film.
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We think consumers should have the chance to consume movies.
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While you may say that's not a big number, if you do the math with me ... believe me, it's big. It's helpful to an industry that has razor-thin margins. The exhibition industry is a horribly tough industry.
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We continue to focus on maintaining our first- mover advantage, ... aggregating content, developing our network infrastructure and capitalizing on opportunities through these distribution partnerships.
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We continue to expand our turnkey business-to-business Internet broadcasting services, as we delivered 960 events in the second quarter of 1999, more than double the number of events in the second quarter of 1998 and a 45 percent increase over the first quarter of 1999,
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We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.
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Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth
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Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.
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The Internet started in a silent-movie phase -- a text-oriented Internet. But now it's moving. We look at ourselves as that portal that people come to for streaming audio or video programming.