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To place this into association, that when you start looking at results of working pay. What is enter in Crazy?

What strikes me there is that he lost $20 million in Game Crazy, which is a start-up. It is a creating business, comping up a ton; he is allowed to lose money. In the long run that- -$20 million disaster (in Game Crazy) eventually will turn positive. He can stop opening new adolescent stores. He similarly has a huge amount of new stores with stock in them. Despite the way that it is a catastrophe, he can offer the stock. So he is losing negative $20 million. When you are looking at the poor results for Hollywood, you must review that he has one division, which he can separate. He can do an extensive variety of particular things with where he is losing $20 million. This division has stock worth. So you have negative $20 million, estimation of stock and notwithstanding it is probably going positive.

In an extensive measure of these shriveling associations, you need to look at another area where they are benefitting. There is an inspiration driving why this could hint at change.

Second 50% of the press release.

Whole Year 2004 Guidance

Hollywood Video: Assuming a neutral examination of aggregate home highlight new releases in the midst of the nine months taking after the first quarter of 2004, and changing for the flightiness and deficiency seen throughout the latest a while, Hollywood Video quarterly same store arrangements are obliged to range from negative 2% to positive 2% for the last 75% of the year. Hollywood Video is keeping up the course it gave on December 1, 2003 of negative 1% to negative 2% same

store bargains for the whole year 2004.

Furthermore, Hollywood Video game plans to open 150 new stores in 2004, weighted toward the second 50% of the year.

Preoccupation Crazy: Based on the confined information available as to approaching programming releases and distinctive parts impacting the diversion business, same store bargains for Game Crazy are obliged to ordinary mid-to-high single-digit for the nine months taking after the first quarter and the whole year 2004.

Hollywood Entertainment Corporation:

Considering the above suspicions for Hollywood Video and Game Crazy same store bargains, the organized opening of 150 new Hollywood Video stores and 150 new Game Crazy stores, and the late flimsiness and inadequacy experienced by Hollywood Video, the Company acknowledges 2004 net compensation each debilitated offer could be lower than 2003 adjusted net pay each debilitated offer, yet does not suspect that it will be not precisely $1.33 each debilitated offer. Despite working Hollywood Video and Game Crazy, the Company is evaluating other long term key exercises. Should the Company choose to look for after one or a more prominent measure of these exercises in the midst of 2004, it is likely that wage

would be conflictingly influenced by a material entirety. Expecting that no enormous new key exercises are executed in 2004, the Company expects total spending for improvement, including stock and store opening expenses joined with new Hollywood Video stores and Game Crazy stores, to be pretty almostUnderstudy: The press discharge appears to be soft and unverifiable

Brian Gains: There are a considerable measure of things that the CEO can't anticipate.

He is still not profiting in Game Crazy but rather he is comping up 12% to 14% (in that portion), so in the end he will profit. What's more, the reason he is not profiting is on the grounds that he is opening a considerable measure of new stores. When you open another feature store, nobody appears. It requires some serious energy to change individuals' examples. It requires significant investment for that business to develop. He is as yet developing Game Crazy. A great deal of this identifies with his owning more than 10% of the stock. What strikes me is that he is as yet opening feature stores. Regardless he supposes the profits are great. On the off chance that you told somebody who thought the business is dead that the CEO is till opening 150 new stores, they would answer that he is nuts. He possesses 10% of the stock. He has a greater amount of a motivator than I do.

The CEO discusses adding to a vital activity to build up a Netflix-like item.

The CEO knows the business better all the live long day than I do. He has the best information. Whether he is utilizing it well is another inquiry.