Movies

Broadband Content Bits: Whedon’s Web Series; HDNet’s Concert Series; PopTok Launch; Bayreuth Opera - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:10 AM PST

-- Joss Whedon to launch vanishing web series: The Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel mastermind is set to release his writers’ strike-inspired web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, but…

Blockbuster Abandons Its Circuit City Quest - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2008 05:09 PM PST

In this year of non-deals and terminated deals, this is not a surprise, considering how foolish the bid was in the first place: Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) has abandoned its offer…

Circuit City May Announce Deal Soon; Not Necessarily Blockbuster Though - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 24 Jun 2008 02:43 PM PST

There hasn’t been much movement on the potential deal between Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) and Circuit City since the electronics retailer agreed to open up its books to the movie rental…

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Comcast-Owned Fandango Buys Movies.com From Disney - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 23 Jun 2008 01:09 AM PST

So Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) couldn’t buy Disney (NYSE: DIS) a few years ago, but it has now succeeded in buying a part of it, sort of: Fandango, the online movie…

Apple Says It Sold 5 Billion Songs; Could Movies Become A $100M Business? - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 10:51 AM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) announced today that it has sold a total of about 5 billion songs, up from the 4 billion mark it announced in Jan this year. The more…

YouTube Adds Some Indie Movie Screenings To Line Up; No Change in Video Deals Strategy - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 08:08 AM PST

YouTube has added long form videos/movies in the form of deals with indie filmmakers, and launched its YouTube Screening Room. “While the majority of these films have played at international…

Disney To Stream Catalog Movies Online - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 01:20 PM PST

Disney (NYSE: DIS) is doing an interesting experiment: it will be streaming online movies at Disney.com for the first time, intended to boost the “Wonderful World of Disney” summer TV…

Aided By Amazon, Tribeca Film Festival Launches Reframe; Access To Films With Limited Release - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:15 PM PST

Roughly 500 independent films with limited distribution are now available through Reframe, a new service from the Tribeca Film Festival that went live overnight. It’s yet another effort to use…

Mission Why Bother: Tom Cruise Promises To Blog—Or Will The Site Just Self-Destruct? - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 29 May 2008 03:10 PM PST

Okay, stop jumping up and down on the couch. This is important: actor Tom Cruise is celebrating 25 years since his first starring movie role with a new website, TomCruise.com.…

Netflix Predicts For Peak Of DVD-By-Mail Business; Blockbuster Shows Off Kiosks - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 May 2008 07:53 PM PST

5-10 years: That’s how long Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has to get its digital house in order before its popular DVD-by-mail business starts to wane. CEO Reed Hastings made the projection…

Broadband Content Bits: ABC.com; Endemol-RNWK; Scripps-YouTube; Bell Canada - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 22 May 2008 10:00 AM PST

-- ABC.com upgrading its broadband player: After having launched the first full-episode player online in 2006, ABC.com has upgraded the online destination with full-screen viewing, closed captioning, the ability to…

Netflix’s Movie Box Launches With Roku; Selection Still Limited; Buys Stake in Roku - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 May 2008 09:44 PM PST

So funny this: Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) decides to build a streaming movie box for TV viewing sometime last year, and last spring hires Anthony Wood, the founder of ReplayTV and…

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…

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,…