entertainment · 2004

Case File / BLOCKBUSTER-2004

The Last Stand

9,000 stores. 65 million members. One existential threat.

The subscription service next door costs $9.99 a month and charges no late fees. Antioco sees the math. The board does not yet see the math. The activist investor in New York is already taking phone calls about the late fees, which the customer base hates and which happen to be eight hundred million dollars a year.

Your Seat

CEO, Blockbuster

4 decisions · entertainment

cc: Board of Directors, Legal, CFOPAGE 1 · BLOCKBUSTER-2004