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  • April 2008

    • Blockbuster Makes $1.35B Bid for Circuit City

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 14, 08 7:53 AM CDT

      Blockbuster Makes $1.35B Bid for Circuit City

      (Newser) - Movie-rental chain Blockbuster went public today with an offer to buy struggling consumer electronics retailer Circuit City for between $6 and $8 a share, reports the Wall Street Journal. Blockbuster made the offer—worth up to $1.35 billion—in February, but said Circuit City hasn’t opened its books. Circuit City closed at $3.90 Friday. More »

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      acquisitions  • retail  • consumer electronics  • Blockbuster  • Circuit City

  • December 2007

    • Jackass 2.5 to Have Web-Only Debut

      New York Times  |  Dec 13, 07 1:34 AM CST

      Jackass 2.5 to Have Web-Only Debut

      (Newser) - Paramount is moving into uncharted territory by premiering Jackass 2.5 online, the New York Times reports. The December 19 premier on Blockbuster's Movielink service will be the first time a studio-backed feature film has made its debut on the Web. Executives hope that a successful experiment will pave the way for a lot more Web-only content from studios. More »

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      Internet  • movie  • Viacom  • film studio  • Blockbuster  • Jackass  • Steve-O

  • October 2007

    • Netflix in Heated Race for Online Movies

      Washington Post  |  Oct 27, 07 3:10 PM CDT

      Netflix in Heated Race for Online Movies

      (Newser) - They beat Blockbuster, but can Netflix outpace rivals in the race to show downloaded movies on TV? "It's like a three-act play, and we're in the opening minutes of the second act," said Netflix exec Steve Swasey. Act two is where startups like Vudu take on giants like Amazon to plug home TVs into the ‘Net—while Netflix tries to adapt before its DVDs hit the dumpster, the Washington Post reports.    More »

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      movie  • Apple  • DVD  • Netflix  • Blockbuster  • Vudu  • John Waters

  • July 2007

    • Netflix Finds Itself in House of Business Horrors

      Associated Press  |  Jul 24, 07 4:44 PM CDT

      Netflix Finds Itself in House of Business Horrors

      (Newser) - Netflix faced a second wave of bad news today as its stock price plummeted and its website remained inaccessible to visitors. The company announced price cuts Sunday and yesterday absorbed a triple blow: lowered sales expectations, a subscriber decline, and a Wall Street downgrade. The website crash then left the company's signature interface offline for nearly 24 hours. More »

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      Hollywood  • corporate earnings  • DVD  • Netflix  • Blockbuster  • subscribers

  • June 2007

    • Blockbuster Bets on Blu-Ray

      Forbes  |  Jun 18, 07 6:36 PM CDT

      Blockbuster Bets on Blu-Ray

      (Newser) - Movie rental giant Blockbuster picked sides today in the hotly contested battle over high-definition DVDs. Starting in July, Blockbuster will buy all of its new high-def DVDs in Sony's Blu-ray format, a damaging blow to rival Toshiba's HD DVD, which the rental company had stocked jointly until now. More »

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      movie  • Hollywood  • Sony  • HD DVD  • DVD  • Blu ray  • Playstation 3  • Blockbuster  • rentals

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