Another tiny morsel of positive news today on the writers’ strike: In a brief statement, the Guild described the latest round of talks as “substantive,” for the first time since…

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Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns has a message for Apple: if you want new home video releases available on iTunes, make your prices more in line with other retailers.  Even…

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The MPAA isn’t a publicly-traded, for-profit entity, so CEO Dan Glickman’s presentation at the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference was sparsely attended. But there is decent contingent of folks…

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News Corp and its studio Twentieth Century Fox are close to a deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to begin offering new releases and catalog movie titles through iTunes beginning in…

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Gaia Interactive, a San Jose, CA-based virtual space “hangout” geared towards young people, using avatars, has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures. The company is…

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-- Conde Nast: Lisa Ryan Howard, who has spent the past nine months as publisher of Conde Nast’s Style.com and Men.style.com, replaces outgoing VP-online sales Jason R. Krebs, who will…

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The good news: Movie studios recognize that strict DRM on DVDs helps make piracy and illegal downloading an attractive route for consumers so various schemes are now being rolled out…

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A fresh influx of more than $3 million in funding for Tinselvision, an online VOD service targeting South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada, has been led by…

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Updated: The price of acquisition is $45 million in cash and Macrovision (NSDQ: MVSN) may issue up to $15 million in stock based on performance, according to an SEC filing.…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is in the process of expanding an online service that will serve as the back end for a slew of new entertainment offerings, with a particular focus…

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Blowtorch Entertainment, a film company seeking to bridge professional and user-generated content, has raised a big $50 million as part of a first round financing led by Ignition. Blowtorch, which…

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On a day of the striking writers leafleting at the World of Disney (NYSE: DIS) store in Manhattan, Disney has struck back on some claims. Union leaflets stated that the…

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We and others reported on Blockbuster’s (NYSE: BBI) rather disastrous Q3 earnings last week, and the complete implosion on its online DVD rentals plans. The accompanying earnings call transcript, here,…

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Much has been written about the Hollywood writers strike, and of course its effect on digital entertainment. Most of it has been positive, that a prolonged strike could lead to…

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The Writers Guild of America‘s 12,000 members will go on strike Monday against studios and networks, the association announced today...the strike officially begins at 12:01 a.m. Monday. THR: Los Angeles…

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A good performance from Viacom, with net income of $641.6 million in Q307, up 80 percent from $356.8 million. Revenues rose as well, up 24 percent to $3.27 billion, from…

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Writers Guild of America President Patric Verrone made the announcement in a closed-door session this evening: the Hollywood television and movie screen writers are going on strike, AP reports. The…

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Pinning its poor Q3 performance primarily on costs related to closure and sell off of over 500 retail stores, video rental service Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) posted an expanded net loss…

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Hollywood screenwriters and studios were still deadlocked tonight, and talks are off, so Writers Guild of America could call for a strike anytime now. Writers will meet Thursday night to…

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First take on Hulu.com: It works, at least in the small scale of a private beta. The site itself is uncluttered and easy to follow. The video loads cleanly although…

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Not that a lot of people are interested in Movielink‘s fate anymore, after it got sold to Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) earlier this year, but if you are from one of…

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After a string of box office disappointments cooled distributors’ interest in his latest production, indie filmmaker Edward Burns will release his new movie, Purple Violets, via iTunes as a download…

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Despite the bitter competition with rival video rental service Blockbuster, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) doesn’t seem to have suffered much over the past year. The Los Gatos, CA-based company posted a…

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Mark Jung, co-founder and former CEO of IGN and COO of Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) after FIM bought IGN, has finally surfaced in an executive position: he has joined…

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Nearly two years after their introduction to the marketplace, the respective movie studio backers and hardware makers of competing home video technologies HD DVD and Blu-ray continue to fight over…

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