WashingtonPost: Hollywood Sees the Big Picture With DVDs. "As the DVD has grown in popularity, so has the clout of video stores. Blockbuster once had to agree to share revenue and buy a studio's entire catalogue of DVD and VHS releases to secure the hottest titles. Now, the retailer has more leverage. It still buys some studios' entire DVD outputs and shares sales revenue, but with other studios it buys DVDs on a title-by-title basis and does not share revenue. Further, Blockbuster does not share DVD rental revenue with the studios." DVDs in America, Cellphones in Japan, Internet in Korea. Follow the trend and the content, and the money, will follow.