More Articles By Samantha Clark

• December crowds up
  OCT. 20 | December is getting tighter than ever for DVD releases, with multiple new releases debuting on the same day. More
  
• More Moore than you can shake a stick at
  SEPT. 27 | Weinstein and Genius have chosen election day for the release of Michael Moore’s health care system exposé, Sicko . Also bowing the same day is Moore detractor Manufacturing Dissent from Liberation Entertainment, and similarly themed Michael Moore Hates America will be released by Allumination Filmworks Oct. 16. More
  
• Q4 crowded with box-office hits
  SEPT. 27 | With record-breaking grosses at the box office this summer, the fourth quarter promises to be busy for DVD. Including this week’s release of Knocked Up from Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 15 movies with theatrical grosses of more than $100 million will hit shelves before the end of the year. More
  
• PBS, WGBH join distribution services
  SEPT. 21 | Indie suppliers PBS and WGBH Boston have joined their video distribution businesses, enabling the companies to more efficiently distribute product for online download-to-own or rental. Executives from both PBS and WGBH will manage the partnership and funds generated will be put toward public TV programming and services. More
  
• Vudu for home entertainment of tomorrow
  SEPT. 21 | REVIEW:  Vudu could very well be the future of home entertainment, with a stress on future . More
  
• Home video for the holidays
  AUG. 30 | As well as summer blockbusters, Christmas movies are released on DVD during the holiday season, and this year promises plenty. More
  
• 300
  WARNER Street: July 31 Prebook: now > The action extravaganza will be among this year’s top-selling high-def titles. The sound and vision of 300 in its high-definition versions are simply outstanding, with the state-of-the-art HD DVD and Blu-ray technology delivering a ferociously stylized retelling of the 5th century B. More
  
• Emmy-nominated TV shows make way to DVD
  JULY 27 | A number of the newly minted Emmy Award nominees are coming to DVD in the next two quarters, many before the Sept. 16 airing of the awards show itself when the winners will be announced. More
  
• Cars wins four Home Entertainment Awards
  JULY 17 | HOME MEDIA EXPO: LAS VEGAS —The Entertainment Merchants Assn. presented its annual Home Entertainment Awards Tuesday night as part of the Home Media Expo, held at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino here. More
  
• New TV shows to air on DVD
  JULY 2 | TV series on DVD is still a popular segment of the market, and the hottest new shows from the past season are making their way to store shelves soon. More
  
• Twisted horror film to debut online
  Twisted Pictures is developing a new horror pic that won't debut in theaters, on DVD or on TV. The production company behind the Saw series is pacting with video Web site Break.com to produce a film that will have its U.S. debut exclusively online. Tentatively titled The Internet Killer , it will be posted in daily segments approximately three minutes long. More
  
• Antioco to exit Blockbuster
  Blockbuster CEO John Antioco will leave the No. 1 rental chain at the end of year, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More
  
• Revenue up 11% in Lionsgate's Q3
  Revenue rose 11% to $254.5 million for Lionsgate in its 2007 fiscal third quarter, primarily due to Saw III and Employee of the Month theatrical runs. Revenue from the home video division dragged down 2% from the comparable period last year. More
  
• Wal-Mart's downloads score points
  Wal-Mart’s Video Downloads Beta site is perhaps the most user-friendly service yet. More
  
• Netflix's Watch Now service proves addictive
  Some might say Netflix went a step backward in its decision to launch a service that just streams movies. But Netflix’s new Watch Now service is surprisingly addictive, and that’s something that helped the online rental pioneer build its company. More
  
• The bigger picture
  Samantha Clark is managing editor of VB . Within hours of Pali Research releasing their report entitled “The DVD Party is Over—Movie Industry Concerns Growing,” consumer media was ready to report the DVD format was all but buried. More
  
• Superman flexes high-def muscle
  The ultimate peacekeeper, Superman is staying neutral in the high-definition format war. More
  
• Dissecting Amazon, iTunes downloads
  The movie download market got a major infusion with the launch of Amazon’s Unbox and iTunes Movies. But whether they’ll build the market faster remains to be seen. More
  
• Paramount eco-friendly for Truth
  Paramount Home Entertainment will release An Inconvenient Truth on Nov. 21, continuing the film’s mission to stop global warming. The studio will donate a portion of the sale of each DVD to the bipartisan climate effort Alliance for Climate Protection. More
  
• Video iPod Ready collection
  Delta, B&W and color; available now, $9.99 each With more than 35 million videos sold through iTunes, consumers are wholeheartedly embracing this latest method of watching content—that's why Delta's idea of releasing video iPod-ready movies, TV shows and cartoons is a good one. The company's line of "Video iPod Ready" titles offers three-disc sets of primarily public domain fare. More