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MGM board to look at ways to finance video buyout

March 25, 1999 // 0 Comments

The board of directors of movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. MGM will meet on Thursday to begin looking at ways to fund a recent $225 million buyout of its video distribution contract with Warner Bros. A source with knowledge of the board meeting said [...]

QPS Introduces Que! DVD-RAM Drive for Apple G3 and PC

March 24, 1999 // 0 Comments

QPS Inc. was just releasing information about the launch of the Que!, a DVD-RAM drive Apple G3 and PC desktop computers. With a storage capacity of 5.2 GB the drive can help managing huge amounts of data, as demanded by today’s workplace. It is ideal [...]

Image Entertainment ads veterans to bolster DVD business

March 23, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

20th Century Fox and Rentrak to sue Hollywood Entertainment

March 23, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Details about Artisan’s April titles just came in

March 23, 1999 // 0 Comments

We just received some of the details for Artisan’s upcoming April releases, which we would like to pass along to you. Although announced earlier, detailed information about Belly, The Jazz Singer, The Punisher and Millenium was still missing. [...]

Every day low prices at DVD Empire

March 22, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Alien Grows!

March 18, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Take a history lesson from Monty Python

March 17, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Film critic Maltin teams up with Netflix for regular column

March 16, 1999 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
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