DVD producers

With DVD takings now outstripping box office receipts, the producers of DVDs occupy are becoming increasingly powerful, says Christian Moerk in the New York Times.

The DVD production community has its own list of hits and misses - just as the feature film community does - which has less to do with the value of a director's original work than with what a producer has later done, or failed to do, to amplify it. "You would be surprised at the material coming out of good places," Mr. Bouzereau [who works on Steven Spielberg's films) said, politely referring to the copious amount of lesser DVD material being released.