Movies

Earnings: Blockbuster Swings To Profit In Q1 As Revenues Drop 5.4 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 15 May 2008 06:04 AM PST

While movie renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) saw Q1 profits of $45.4 million ($0.20 per diluted share) compared to last year’s $49 million net loss, the closing of over 400 retail…

MovieBeam Back From Dead, Again; To Be Sold To Dar Capital For $2.25 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 May 2008 12:23 PM PST

This box has nine lives, literally: Just when you thought the doomed digital movie service MovieBeam would finally be buried with Movie Gallery bankruptcy, it will be sold again. According…

DVD Kiosk Operator Redbox To File For IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 02 May 2008 11:37 AM PST

Redbox, the distributor of DVDs via kiosk, plans to file for an IPO sometime during the current quarter, reports VideoBusiness (via NTV). The company, which is majority owned by publicly…

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Apple Day-And-Date Movies: Loss Leader For the Company; Higher Profits For Studios - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 May 2008 07:05 PM PST

As we wrote last night, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is launching its day and date movie release service..previously movies from most studios hadn’t been available on iTunes until weeks after their…

Day And Date Movies Starting on iTunes; Warner Bros’ Will Do It For VOD and Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:40 PM PST

It was only a matter of, well, days, before day-and-date would arrive for the VOD and online release of movies, and it has: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is expected to announce…

Blockbuster In Talks To Take stake in New Premium CableCo; Wants Digital Rights: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Apr 2008 10:28 PM PST

So Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is desperate for a deal, any deal, any which way: after its strange proposal to buy CircuitCity (which will have a tough time going through) comes…

Filings Watch: Pearson Bought Money-Media For $64M; Amazon.com’s Withoutabox Purchase: $19M? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Apr 2008 10:58 AM PST

Some filings deep-dive this weekend: -- Pearson: According to its annual report, filed with SEC on Friday, Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the parent Financial Times and FT.com, acquired Money-Media, an online…

Industry Moves: Lionsgate Appoints CinemaNow CEO as Digital Head - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:15 PM PST

Lionsgate Entertainment, without a digital executive for a while now (last was Adrian Sexton, who was VP of digital media and left in May 2006), has finally found it important…

Netflix Takes A Drubbing; Stock Down Over 23 Percent After Earnings - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:42 PM PST

Ouch: Yesterday’s after-hours action was rough for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), but today’s trading is even worse. With the trading day almost over, shares are down over 23 percent, as investors…

Earnings: Netflix Q1 Revs Up 7 Percent; Income Up 32 Percent; 3 More Partners For the Box - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 21 Apr 2008 01:08 PM PST

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has announced Q1 revenue of $326.2 million, a 7 percent increase from $305.3 million in the year-ago period. Net income rose 32 percent to $13.4 million ($.23…

Woulda Coulda Shoulda: Sony Working on PS3 Movie Download Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:40 PM PST

By now, I have lost count on the number of times Sony (NYSE: SNE) has started working for movie/video download services for either Playstation or PSP, and has launched some…

French Supermarket Giant Carrefour Plans Movie Download Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:08 PM PST

Latest to launch a movie download store - and the latest amongst the supermarkets to try their hand - is France’s Carrefour. The world’s second largest retail group after Wal-Mart…

Digital Studio Filmaka Leaves Beta And Awards User-Gens With Movie, TV Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:00 AM PST

After about a year and a half in beta, digital entertainment studio Filmaka finally leaves beta Monday. The studio, headed by Sandy Grushow, former chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group,…

Studio JV: Interview: Philippe Dauman, CEO, Viacom: ‘Distribution Both Linear And Online’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 20 Apr 2008 04:00 PM PST

One sign that a company is ultra serious about a new venture: when the CEO of a major media company does press calls on a Sunday afternoon. Viacom (NYSE: VIA)…

Movielink Redux: Five Studios Form PayTV and VOD Venture; Launch in Fall 2009 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 20 Apr 2008 12:31 PM PST

Among the strangest ways to announce a venture with big political ramifications across the entertainment industry: on Sunday morning. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and its Paramount Pictures unit, MGM Studios, and…

Fox, Paramount Testing New-Release Downloads At iTunes - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:30 AM PST

Something unusual happened for iTunes users when Juno made its DVD debut this week: the Fox movie was also for sale as an iTunes download for $14.99 as the News…

Time Warner Cuts 450 Jobs At New Line Cinema As Studio Merges With Warner Bros. - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:09 PM PST

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is slashing 450 jobs from New Line Cinema, Reuters reports. The job cuts were expected, as the movie studio is being absorbed by the company’s Warner…

Circuit City: Haven’t We Seen This Before? - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Apr 2008 06:53 AM PST

Throughout its conference call explaining the deal, Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) CEO Jim Keyes touted the opportunity for Circuit City to sell media services as an add-on to its traditional sales,…

Blockbuster Working on Direct-To-TV Streaming Device; Similar To Netflix - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 11:04 PM PST

Video retailer Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), in the middle of a big reorg of its offline rental business, is working on a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets,…

Babelgum’s First Studio Investment - ‘Six-Figure’ Sum For Oil Doc - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 01:46 AM PST

So this is how Babelgum will burn through the considerable cash multimillionaire backer Silvio Scaglia has put in to the company? Last month, the Dublin/Nice/London/Milan-based P2P video platform prompted head-scratching…

Broadband Content Bits: NBCU; Yahoo; Adobe-Viacom; Paramount-VooZoo - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 04 Apr 2008 04:40 PM PST

-- *NBCU* to offer original webisodes of its primetime shows: NBC Digital Entertainment will release original web content based on its existing primetime shows this July, Variety reports.. The webisodes,…

Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 04 Apr 2008 08:34 AM PST

So Flixster finally decided not to sell (or, that no one was willing to pay its blue-sky valuation hopes): the movie-based social service that’s popular on Facebook, has raised $5…

3i/BV-Backed DVD Trading Site Peerflix Closing Down Main Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 24 Mar 2008 11:02 PM PST

Peerflix, the Palo Alto, CA-based online DVD trading platform, is in the process of closing down its main swapping service, after adoption and reliability issues, reports Webware. It will continue…

Hulu.com Launches Wednesday; New Deals With WB, Lionsgate, NBA, NHL, NCAA; Network Needs - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:01 PM PST

I started to write a post about hulu.com‘s upcoming launch over the weekend, then a visit turned into two episodes of House. It’s that easy. Even when it crashed while…

iTunes’ Rental Library Falls Far Short Of 1,000 Mark; Only 400 Titles Currently Available - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 03 Mar 2008 05:23 PM PST

At Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Macworld event in mid-January, Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes movie rental downloads with the promise that the service would offer 1,000 titles by the end of February.…