Youku Narrows loss for the first quarter after IPO

Beijing-Chinese leaders Youku video sharing website reported a narrower loss for the fourth quarter of 2010 on Tuesday, less than three months since its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange was the strongest debut in the United States share in five years. Shares in the company office in Beijing opened at $ 12.80 on 8 December and quickly more than tripled in value. On Tuesday, shares closed at $ 39.96, 3.92% down on the day and in the upper half of their trading range of $ 25,57-$ 50 from the IPO.The company, led by educated U.S. Chinese Victor Koo, recorded a net loss in the fourth quarter of 37.7 million yuan (US $ 5.7 million), or 13 cents per American depositary share, compared with the largest loss of 46 million yuan, or approximately 33 cents per share, a year ago.Calling itself a online television company, Youku almost 203 million dollars in its IPO, but has yet to turn a profit as the cost of bandwidth to House his enormous collection of online offerings is expensive in China, where the population online is the largest at 457 million still the bandwidth is controlled by the State.In January, Youku license the action thriller Inception by Warner Bros. steam free of advertising and on-demand to pay all Chinese Web surfers for five yuan (75 cents) for each view. The company has not disclosed the number of paying subscribers to this service Youku Premium due to a regulatory grey perpetuated by media Monitors in single-party Government of China, it is not clear whether Youku and its main competitor in the online video space, Tudou – providing an IPO – will never get profits from gaining control of all their content.To avoid a repetition of past legal action over pirated videos and keep authorities happy, each company employs an army of in-house censors to delete anything that might draw heat from the copyright holders or offend the censors was touching on politically sensitive topics such as civil unrest, government corruption, sex or religion.Youku revenue in its first quarter as a publicly traded company has more than doubled from October to December, reaching EUR 152.5 million yuan on the strength of advertising sales, strengthened by a gain in traffic and an expansion of its video library. The company forecast revenue from Jan-Mar would more than double a year ago and said its financial results would improve in the mid-to long-term costs shrink as a band.

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Cinema news after dark: everything, that only an Oscar win not

What movie news is after dark? This is a question that almost never asks me, but I will for you already answer. Movie news is after dark FSR's latest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to all news stories that slip past our daytime editor and make it strangely chubby in my RSS 'marked' - box. It is (but not guaranteed) that relevant movie news, links to insightful comment and other film-related shenanigans. I can throw here or there for anything related to TV in a link. It serves as my place of the record is both charming and ingenious, but I'll probably neither of the two. To write this stuff late at night, which expect you?

Tonight's Headliner: David Fincher. He did win an Oscar tonight. While I am not fully convinced that he "of the Internet was deprived as the rest", he a great effort with the social network provided. And finally he will win one of these little Golden guys. It is always that MySpace film stay out there

Speak of the Oscars, has Melissa Leo apologized already an F-bomb to drop during the live show. Taking into account their Oscar campaign, this is the second offensive-what is you lately done.

In the future should this infographic "If the Internet took the Oscars" title because it far right the winners will not.... So much for social media holding all the answers to the universe.

Oscar producer Adam Shankman confirmed today that Tom Cruise in the upcoming Warner Bros.-PIC rock of ages, star is where it Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive." will sing

Screenrant has put together an informative little round-up of the latest updates on Star Trek 2. Paramount Pictures apparently throwing money on the thing. Who knew?

12 Year old wants me one this Green Lantern posters on my wall:

27 year-old wants me one this painted rubber posters:

27 year-old is me win so this battle.

Michael Fassbender laughs ominously the question whether or not his Promethius character is an Android. Are a little paranoid, Android? In other news, Radiohead is a good band.

We close today evening with drama, because I'm not sure you've had enough, that this evening. How you shade in the fetal position and even to sleep please wines, the transition back to hate, the Academy of motion picture arts and science, keep in mind that bad things out there. How in the line of fire, if Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson or Christian "Oscar winner" Bale go on a rant (NSFW, to say the least):

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Movie News After Dark : Sentinel Prime, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, dead all callback and founding guy

What is Movie News After Dark? This is a question that I am almost never asked, but I will answer it for you anyway. Movie News After Dark is FSR’s newest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to all of the news stories that slip past our daytime editorial staff and make it into my curiously chubby RSS ‘flagged’ box. It will (but is not guaranteed to) include relevant movie news, links to insightful commentary and other film-related shenanigans. I may also throw in a link to something TV-related here or there. It will also serve as my place of record for being both charming and sharp-witted, but most likely I will be neither of the two. I write this stuff late at night, what do you expect?

Today’s headliner is Sentinel Prime, the older brother and mentor of Optimus Prime. He will be appearing in Michael Bay’s upcoming action kaboom Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The image comes from an upcoming edition of Empire Magazine, as leaked by TFW2005. Also included are Mr. Bay’s 5 rules for this third installment. I have included them below. If this isn’t music to the ears (or eyes) of everyone who didn’t like that second film, I don’t know what would be. Sometimes you people are just impossible to satisfy, but clearly Bay and Co. are trying.

Does and Don’ts for TF3:
1. No sand
2. No “dorky” humor (“we wanted to make the movie much more serious, more adult)
3. When robots die, they’re really going to die and we’re gonna show that
4. We’re not bringing people back
5. Give the robots more ‘weight’ in the story (“They were missed in movie two. We’ve given them a strong back-story and pathos”)

Hesher director Spencer Susser, part of the Blue Tongue Films brigade that’s taking over from down under with films like Animal Kingdom, has plans to take his zombie apocalypse short I Love Sarah Jane and turn it into a full-length feature. It’s basically about a bunch of kids trying to survive the end of days. That’s pretty cool.

Artist Tone Branson envisions Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, a role he will play in the upcoming Steven Spielberg film about Abraham Lincoln. He looks very much like Abraham Lincoln, as played by Daniel Day-Lewis.

Tim Burton and Josh Brolin are developing a new take on the Hunchback of Notre Dame. As always, Drew McWeeney is asking the most appropriate question: Wait, what the hell? Why?

The exploration of Battle: Los Angeles and whether or not it’s based on an actual event has begun. The answer is probably no, but it’s fun to talk about. Beats having to listen to more people droll on about how much they still hate the Oscars.

The video came Devil May Cry is being developed for the big screen. No word yet on whether Uwe Boll will direct.

Tom Hanks debuted the first footage from Larry Crowne on the Jimmy Kimmel post-Oscar show. Also, Tom Hanks rides a Vespa and is probably insane:

Malin Ackerman will become the 45th blonde actress this year to star alongside Nicolas Cage in a movie that will undoubtedly do gangbusters at the box office. Well, except for that last part. This one is called Medallion, it will be directed by Simon West, and it will be a Taken-esque thriller about a master thief who finds that his daughter has been abducted in NYC. It’s like Matchstick Men, but sans intellect.

>Alan Sylvestri appears to be scoring Captain America: The First Avenger. He will bring his patented sound, most famously heard in scores for Back to the Future and Predator to the period piece comic book action extravaganza. We look forward to something quite Patriotic, without being offensive to the rest of the world.

Artist Laz Marquez just finished 10 days of Oscar posters in 10 days, reimagining the 10 Best Picture nominees. My personal favorite is The Social Network (seen below), but you should check out the entire collection.

Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg are reportedly teaming up for an indie comedy called Predisposed. Leo will play a terrible mother, while Eisenberg will play a bright young man about to interview at Juliard. If they weren’t also looking at Tracy Morgan to play the mother’s drug dealer, I’d call this BS typecasting. Okay, it’s sort of definitely typecasting.

Sony has announced that it is serious about making a Total Recall reboot/reimagining/whatever, and it will still star Colin Farrell. They have put it on the schedule for the summer of 2012. Cue the apocalypse joke.

Tonight we finish with two videos, both equally watchable in their own rights. Up first, the folks at Rooster Teeth unleash “Inception Guy.”

And finally, here is a trailer for every Academy Award winning movie ever.

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