In a suit filed today, Rentrak Corp. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc. have sued Hollywood Entertainment, which owns the Hollywood Video chain, alleging that the video renter has under-reported sales figures. Web-based movie store Reel.Com [...]
Image Entertainment just announced today the hiring of three video industry veterans to fill key positions to further grow the company’s DVD business. Barry Gordon, joining Image in the newly created position of Director of Business Development, will be [...]
DVD Empire just informed us that the company has launched a major initiative to bring everyday low prices to the online DVD customer. The move flies in the face of recent, quixotic, high profile stunts in which certain DVD retailers have sold individual [...]
We just got details about Warner Home Video’s upcoming DVD releases, slated for release on May 25. Apart from a number of regular releases, Warner is also shipping another slate of their $14.95 budget titles. Without extras and additional language [...]
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to release the Alien 20th Anniversary Edition on DVD and VHS, featuring a documentary and supplemental materials produced by Sharpline Arts. In 1992, FoxVideo released the benchmark Special Edition Laser Disc of Ridley [...]
We got more information from Anchor Bay regarding their upcoming April releases in. On the left you can see the cover artwork for Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Please click on the image for a full look at the release’s front and back. “The Life Of [...]
Popular film critic and historian Leonard Maltin has teamed up with NetFlix.com, the world’s largest DVD rental store, to launch a monthly online column that will appear exclusively at the NetFlix.com store. Each month, Maltin will lend his movie and [...]
We just received some new information from VM1, the company that produces VersaDisc, a free magazine that comes on a DVD disc. The magazine has been renamed to TheVOB and is now shipping to all subscribers of the “VersaDisc”. The disc’s content has [...]
SyCoNet.com, Inc., the leading U.S. distributor of Anime (Japanese animated) videos and DVDs, today announced that it has generated an average 100% monthly sales increase of DVD Anime movies since January 1999. The Company reported that it is fulfilling [...]
In an unexpected move, MGM today entered negotiations with Warner Bros. for an early termination of its distribtuion agreement. As you certainly know, all MGM home video titles, including DVD, are currently distributed through Warner Bros. and the [...]
