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Home Entertainment Rebounds, Driven by Online Subscriptions

April 29, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 3 weeks ago

Consumer spending on home entertertainment hit $4.5B in the first quarter, up 2.5% from a year ago, the Digital Entertainment Group reports. Blu-ray disc sales surged

  

Bob Johnson In Talks to Buy Image Entertainment (Exclusive)

March 29, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 8 weeks ago

A final deal is still weeks away, says an insider

  

DVD and Blu-Ray Rental Market Plummets 21.3% in Q4

March 26, 2012 By Brent Lang 8 weeks ago

The kiosk market shows signs of strength with companies like Redbox enjoying a 28% in disc rentals

  

Movie and TV Employment Jumped 10% in California Last Year

February 15, 2012 By Brent Lang 14 weeks ago

Report says that the industry continues to struggle with declining movie attendance and the rise of digital platforms

  

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1' Outpaces 'Eclipse' on Disc

February 13, 2012 By Joshua L. Weinstein 14 weeks ago

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" got off to a stronger start on home entertainment than the last Twilight movie

  

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: 'We Expect DVD Subscribers to Decline Forever'

January 25, 2012 By Brent Lang 17 weeks ago

Home-entertainment giant abandons plan to rent video games, but will offer 3D streaming

  

'Bond 50' Blu-ray Extravaganza: All 22 James Bond Movies

January 11, 2012 By Kimberly Potts 19 weeks ago

To be released next fall, the collection begins with "Dr. No" and ends with "Quantum of Solace" and includes more than 130 hours of bonus features

  

What Ails Hollywood? Six Movie Experts Weigh In On a Cure

January 2, 2012 By Wrap Staff 20 weeks ago

Producer Mike Medavoy, critic Joe Morgenstern, "Warrior" director Gavin O'Connor and others on how movies can survive after a brutal box office year

  

New iTunes Edition of 'Avatar' Pulls Back the Curtain on Green-Screen Magic

December 16, 2011 By Brent Lang 23 weeks ago

Special digital versions has six hours of extras that show Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in their performance capture finest

  

Review: Adele Bares It All in Candor-Filled 'Live at Albert Hall'

November 29, 2011 By Chris Willman 25 weeks ago

The hottest diva of 2011 bares her sheer musicality on a live CD... and plenty of amusingly profane confessions on the longer DVD that comes with it

  

Review: Beyonce's 'Live at Roseland' DVD is Almost Worth the Self-Worship

November 29, 2011 By Chris Willman 25 weeks ago

The singer turns in some typically strong performances on her concert DVD, if you can get past all the self-serving patter

  

'Law & Order': A 104-Disc DVD Set & 10 Top 'Ripped From the Headlines' Eps

November 7, 2011 By Kimberly Potts 28 weeks ago

You'll need a wad of cash and serious space on your DVD shelf for this mammoth box set, which collects all 20 "L&O" seasons on 104 discs

  

Warner Bros. Pulling All Harry Potter Discs From Stores Dec. 29

October 24, 2011 By Brent Lang 30 weeks ago

The strategy -- used by Disney on big hits -- should send disc sales for "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" through the roof

  

Netflix's Qwikster Announcement Leaves Subscribers Angry and Analysts Cold

September 19, 2011 By Brent Lang 35 weeks ago

The stock plunges on news that the subscription company is splintering off its DVD by mail business

  

'Rio' Holds Onto Top Perch on DVD Sales Charts

September 1, 2011 By Brent Lang 38 weeks ago

Box office also-run "Priest" is the week's most rented disc

  

Where Have You Gone 'Avatar'? Disc Sales Crater in First Half of 2011

August 5, 2011 By Brent Lang 42 weeks ago

Rental market rose 11 percent to $4.2 billion according to DEG report

  

Netflix to Wall Street: We Expected More Fallout From Our Big Rate Hike (Updated)

July 25, 2011 By Brent Lang 43 weeks ago

Revenues climb 52 percent and profits jump 55 percent during the second quarter, but failed to meet Wall Street expectations

  

How Hollywood Cheapened Its Product

June 14, 2011 By Edward Jay Epstein 49 weeks ago

Through their mindless willingness to sell DVDs to Redbox and Netflix, the studios have cheapened their entire food chain

  

Warner Lays Off 50 in Home Entertainment, Consumer Products

June 10, 2011 By Daniel Frankel 50 weeks ago

Job cuts amount to about 7% of the studio's domestic work force; decline in DVD sales is blamed

  

Fox Home Entertainment Lays Off 22 People

June 8, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 50 weeks ago

The staffers worked in analytics and in information technology

  

Blu-ray Won't Replace DVD, But It's Growing, NPD Study Reports

June 8, 2011 By Brent Lang 50 weeks ago

Year-to-year sales of the set-top players are up 16 percent, but the overall home entertainment market continues to shrink

  

Home Entertainment Floundering, As DVD Revenues Plunge 44%

May 12, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

"Avatar" top selling DVD according to SNL Kagan while Fox leads the market for disc sales

  

Another Tough Quarter: Say Goodbye to the Traditional Home Entertainment Biz

May 2, 2011 By Diane Garrett 1 year ago

The disc sales business is circling the drain faster than ever, as more consumers opt to rent/stream movies through Netflix or Redbox rather than purchase them

  

Echo Bridge to Distribute 251 Miramax Titles on DVD, Blu-ray

February 17, 2011 By Wrap Staff 1 year ago

Included are the "From Dusk Till Dawn” trilogy, “Music of the Heart,” “Marvin’s Room,” “Tsotsi” and “Becoming Jane”

  

'King's Speech' Out on DVD and Blu-ray April 19

February 1, 2011 By Joshua L. Weinstein 1 year ago

Release of Oscar frontrunner is first under Weinstein Company's 25% ownership of Starz Media and multi-year distribution deal

  

Mel Gibson's Copy of 'The Beaver' Stolen

January 28, 2011 By the Hollywood Reporter 1 year ago

Police are treating the incident as a petty theft

  
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