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Fox, MGM ready Blu-ray payload
AUG. 20 | After a slow start in high-definition, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment are now slating Blu-ray Disc titles with a vengeance, slotting 29 releases for the rest of the year, including summer blockbusters Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (pictured) and Live Free or Die Hard. More

  • Profit up tenfold for Hastings' Q2
    AUG. 20 | Movies and videogame strength powered Hastings Entertainment to significant profit gains in its second quarter. For the three months ended July 31, Hastings recorded $1.9 million in net income, nearly 10 times its take for the same period last year.
  • Paramount supports HD DVD exclusively
    AUG. 20 | In a surprise move sure to shake up the high-definition format battle, Paramount Home Entertainment said today that it will exclusively support HD DVD beginning with Aug. 28 release Blades of Glory. Paramount said that all movies from its labels will be released in high-definition on HD DVD only worldwide. Films from DreamWorks Animation, which hasn’t yet released any films on high-def, also will debut on HD DVD only.
  • Surf’s Up awash with promos
    AUG. 20 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is bowing a splashy promotional campaign for Oct. 9 release Surf’s Up, including tie-ins with two restaurant chains: Carl’s Jr./Hardees and Chuck E. Cheese. The eateries will pack Surf’s Up-themed toys inside kids’ meals.
  • Building B to launch TV/’Net-delivered service 
    AUG. 20 | Building B, an upstart TV and movie delivery company launched by former execs from Paramount, Sony, Bell Labs and other leading companies, will join the increasingly crowded Internet video business with a hybrid TV/Internet-delivered movie service expected to launch this fall.
  • Disney to release BD-Live titles in 2008
    AUG. 17 | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment next year will bow its first Blu-ray Disc titles with advanced interactivity, including Web-enabled and picture-in-picture bonus features. Sleeping Beauty will have BD-Live and picture-in-picture will be on Finding Nemo and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (pictured).
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Samantha Clark
DISC DISH
Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business
August 20, 2007
Freaky Family Guy and Dirt
Fox is bringing out an 18-disc se...
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Paul Sweeting
MEDIA WONK
Paul Sweeting, Editor, ContentAgenda
August 20, 2007
Missing the point on Paramount and HD DVD
Much is being made in the blogosphere of anonymously sourced reports suggesting that ...
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Laurence Lerman
DVDIALOG
Laurence Lerman, Product Digest Editor, Video Business
August 20, 2007
Lynch Goes Inland, Part II
Here’s the second part of Ed Grant’s interview with filmmaker David Lynch...
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Marcy Magiera
BETWEEN THE LINES
Marcy Magiera, Editor in chief, Video Business
August 16, 2007
The bottom line on online
A retailer friend of mine and I recently engaged in an e-mail discussion about the me...
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Jennifer Netherby
THE DOWN LOW
Jennifer Netherby, Reporter and Writer, Video Business
August 15, 2007
DRM Criticism? What Criticism? And Other Wikipedia Fun
Disney, Sony and some other entertainment companies have been caught altering Wikiped...
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Wild for DVD
William H. Macy and Disney’s Lori MacPherson celebrated the Wild Hogs DVD last week in Hollywood.
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Disturbia’s Sarah Roemer celebrated the film’s DVD release at the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles on Aug. 2.
Comic-Con: Futurama event
Futurama’s John DiMaggio, the voice of “Bender,” promoted Fox’s upcoming Bender’s Big Score DVD at Comic-Con in San Diego last week.

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Renters kept their eyes on Disturbia this week.

Top DVD Sellers

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1 300
2 DISTURBIA
3 TMNT

Top DVD Rentals

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1 DISTURBIA
2 ARE WE DONE YET?
3 300


Source: Rentrak Corp.; week ended 8/12/2007

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Sweeting 8/17/2007
OPINION: Ark, anyone?
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda

AUG. 17 | Bret Swanson of the Discovery Institute wrote an influential article earlier this year called “The Coming Exaflood,” referring to the flood of data threatening to swamp the Internet as new bandwidth-heavy applications grow in popularity.
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Guest 6/8/2007
OPINION: Give rental its due, Mr. Parsons
James G. Loperfido is chair of IDEA

JUNE 8 | The video rental experience works. It satisfies a growing population in a way that no other delivery method has come close to duplicating.
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