More Articles By Cindy Spielvogel
- TLA offers "Golden Tickets" in Web site promo
DEC. 17 | TLA Releasing has taken a page from Willy Wonka by placing "Golden Tickets" inside its 2008 catalogs to attract consumers to buy DVDs from the supplier's Web site. More - Wattles wants Hollywood back
DEC. 12 | After selling Hollywood Entertainment to Movie Gallery in 2005, Mark Wattles may be involved in a potential plan to buy the entire company. Hollywood founder and former CEO Wattles “is a potential investor in connection with a possible competing reorganization plan,” according to court papers filed Dec. 11 in conjunction with the Movie Gallery bankruptcy. More - Porchlight acquires kids lines
DEC. 10 | Porchlight Home Entertainment has acquired three children’s properties for release in 2008. The first property to launch on DVD will be Little Playdates , an award-winning series for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. It will arrive on DVD from Porchlight in February. More - Anchor Bay spirals into scares
DEC. 10 | Fresh off the DVD release of Anchor Bay Entertainment’s Hatchet this December, writer/director Adam Green and star Joel David Moore team again in Spiral , which Anchor Bay also has acquired. More - Movie Gallery closing MovieBeam
DEC. 7 | Movie Gallery confirmed it will close its MovieBeam set-top box download service on Dec. 15. More - VCI donates Christmas Carol DVDs to troops
DEC. 3 | Tulsa,Okla.-based VCI Entertainment donated 200 copies of A Christmas Carol on DVD to the Blue Star Mothers of Oklahoma for the troops. More - Marley seeks united Africa for Black History Month
NOV. 29 | In the feature documentary Africa Unite , Bob Marley's family traveled to Ethiopia in 2005 for a landmark concert performance. Palm Pictures will release the Africa Unite DVD on Feb. 12 (prebook Jan. 15; DVD $24.98), after the film gets a theatrical release this winter. Bob’s son, Ziggy Marley spoke with VB ’s Cindy Spielvogel about Africa Unite and his dad. More - Westerns make comeback in first quarter
NOV. 29 | The Old West has returned in a big way, and a herd of features and TV shows will be released on DVD in the first quarter. More - Movie Gallery allowed to pay supplier, game vendors
NOV. 29 | At a hearing Nov. 28, Movie Gallery was given permission by the U.S. bankruptcy court to pay the smaller suppliers and game vendors it wants to continue doing business with, in addition to larger studios. More - Palm Pictures hires Crash execs
NOV. 21 | Jan Korbelin and Marina Grasic, who executive produced Crash , have joined Palm Pictures as managing partners. More - Allen to host Video Hall of Fame
NOV. 21 | Comedian and TV personality Byron Allen will host the 27th annual Video Business Video Hall of Fame gala dinner and awards show Dec. 3 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. More - Trans World partners on Naruto promotion
NOV. 19 | Viz Media has teamed with Trans World Entertainment to launch a holiday retail campaign through Web, print and broadcast to promote the new three-disc deluxe edition of Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow . More - Cinema Libre spreads the word
NOV. 19 | The term guerilla marketing is derived from guerrillas, warriors who fight from the underground for social and political causes. Consequently, finding guerilla marketing at Cinema Libre Studio is a natural. More - Labels lie in wait for buyers
NOV. 19 | Like everything else, guerilla marketing has moved to the Internet. More - Vivendi to distribute startup Blowtorch Entertainment
NOV. 16 | Vivendi Visual Entertainment will distribute on DVD three to six films a year from startup Blowtorch Entertainment. Blowtorch is launching with more than $50 million in funding to create a media company aimed at reaching young adults 18 to 24 through film, TV, DVD, mobile, digital and Internet entertainment. More - Movie Gallery debtor-in-possession financing approved
NOV. 15 | Movie Gallery has received final approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Va., for its $150 million debtor-in-possession financing. It will be used to pay vendors and employees and provide operational and financial stability to Movie Gallery during its restructuring. More - Movie Gallery can't file third-quarter report
NOV. 13 | In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Movie Gallery said that in view of its Oct. 16 bankruptcy, it could not file its Q3 report “without unreasonable effort or expense.” More - Movie Gallery clears objections from landlords
NOV. 6 | Movie Gallery has resolved objections that landlords had made regarding its plans to auction off more than 500 leases on stores the chain is closing and the procedures involved in closing those stores. More - Marleys unite for a common goal
NOV. 5 | Bob Marley had a vision for Africa to become a unified entity. In the feature documentary Africa Unite , his family, led by wife Rita, furthers that vision by traveling to Ethiopia in 2005 for a landmark concert performance. The concert served as the starting point for annual Africa Unite events, the next of which will be held in Jamaica during Black History Month this February. More - Wal-Mart joins landlords objecting to Movie Gallery closings
OCT. 30 | Wal-Mart has added its name to the list of landlords objecting to Movie Gallery’s plans to put some of its leases up for auction and sell off inventory to the public from the stores it is closing. More
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