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‘Dragon’ Deal Signals Evolution Of Entertainment Merchandising At Wal-Mart
Entertainment merchandising continues to evolve at Wal-Mart, with the retailer having struck an exclusive deal with DreamWorks Animation for toys, apparel, and other licensed produ... More
Video On Demand Gets Its Day: Studios, Cable Companies In $30M Ad Campaign
Hollywood kept the video on demand business at bay for years while consumers built their DVD libraries. Now a consortium of studios is teaming with the nation’s largest cable com... More
Capgemini/In-Stat Tackle Digital Entertainment ‘Dilemmas’ In White Paper
The evolving entertainment ecosystem poses five "dilemmas" for content companies and service providers: • How to dramatically improve how content is created and managed using a ... More
Cinram Launches CDSA Content Protection & Security Initiative
Cinram International has announced the initiation of the CDSA Content Protection and Security certification process, which for over ten years has assisted content holders and their... More
RealNetworks Drops Fight To Market DVD Copying Software
RealNetworks is giving up on its RealDVD copying software in a settlement of more than a year’s worth of litigation with the six major Hollywood movie studios, Viacom Inc., and t... More
Release Window Wrap: What Does ‘Alice’ Deal Portend For Home Entertainment?
Theatrical distribution insiders tell Variety that it took a big title such as Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland” to “redraw the line” on release windows. “No exhibitor wan... More
Wal-Mart And Vudu: Movie Streaming Service Ranks High In Studios’ New Distribution Heirarchy
Wal-Mart is getting back into the digital entertainment distribution business with its planned acquisition of the Vudu movie download and streaming service. The deal, which is expe... More
Redbox Relents, Signs Window Deal With Warner
Furthering its efforts to establish an exclusive sales window for DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and video-on-demand services, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has reached a two-year deal wit... More
DVD, Blu-ray Sales Lift Viacom Profits In Fourth Quarter
Viacom reported Feb. 11 a $214 million increase in fourth-quarter profitability for its filmed entertainment unit, reflecting among other things a higher year-over-year contributio... More
Disney Credits Home Entertainment For Studio’s Income Surge
A rise in home entertainment profits helped Walt Disney’s studio division post a 30% increase in operating income for its first quarter, the company announced Feb. 9. The studio... More
GameSupply: At EA, Digital Markets Bring New Risk Management Framework
Videogame developers have long been averse to working “under any regime,” notes Spencer Mott, Chief Information Security Officer of Electronic Arts. But with game publishers no... More
BluFocus Lauches Testing Lab, Webinar For 3D Home Entertainment
With studios looking to bring their first 3D home entertainment products to market later this year, DVD and Blu-ray quality assurance firm BluFocus is launching a suite of 3D testi... More
