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Home Ent News: Disney pixies set up camp in H'wood -- La Cienega Park in Beverly Hills transformed itself into a playground for fairies.
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Home Ent News: Duo acquires mega wholesale distributor -- Alliance Entertainment, the country's largest wholesale distributor of CDs, DVDs and video games, has been sold to equity firms Platinum Equity and the Gores Group by Source Interlink.
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Home Ent News: Former eOne exec Silver to produce via Blue Ice Films -- Entertainment One has inked a multiyear, first-look deal with new film and TV shingle Blue Ice Films.
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Home Ent News: Company to launch a free movies VOD service -- YouTube U.K. is set to launch a free movies on-demand service after inking deals with Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures in the U.S. and content website Blinkbox in the U.K.
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Home Ent News: Vidtailer to file for Chapter 11 in September -- Here's how much the landscape of Hollywood's homevideo biz has shifted over the years: Netflix is readying to pay Epix $1 billion for a slate of movies, while Blockbuster is being taken down by $1 billion in debt.
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Home Ent News: Provider could drop cable channels Wednesday -- AT&T U-Verse is locked in another carriage dispute, this time with Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel.
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Home Ent News: Second film in Swedish trilogy eyes big video release -- When the second film in the Millennium trilogy, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," bows on DVD Oct. 26, it could join "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" as one of the top foreign-language DVDs in the past several years.
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Home Ent News: Total video market revenue climbs 7% -- Sales of Blu-ray discs in Germany more than doubled in the first half of 2010, propelling the country's home video industry to record heights.
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Home Ent News: With former programming topper gone, transition has been smooth -- DirecTV exec Derek Chang has emerged as the top programmer at satcaster following the recent departure of entertainment prexy Eric Shanks.
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Home Ent News: Epix pact said to be worth around $1 billion -- The multi-year Netflix deal to stream movies from Epix will immediately make the nascent premium TV service profitable, executives from Lionsgate Entertainment, an Epix partner, said Tuesday.
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Home Ent News: 'Nanny McPhee' leads DVD chart for July -- Sales of new DVDs in Blighty rose by 15.7% in July compared with the same month last year.
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Home Ent News: Film rental chain closes in on deal -- When Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM paired up to launch Epix, the studios touted that the pay cabler would make its movies available on pay TV and Internet platforms.
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Home Ent News: Industry vet returns to producing -- DC Entertainment veteran Gregory Noveck is ankling from his slot as senior VP of creative affairs to return to producing, according to a DC spokesman.
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Home Ent News: Revenues flat: Ads up, DVDs down -- Viacom boosted profits by 40% in the past quarter to $418 million, but on the revenue front, gains in advertising were offset by weaker DVD sales. The result: Viacom's revenues remained flat at $3.3 billion, executives reported Thursday.
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Home Ent News: Company to start stocking discs -- Redbox is giving Blu-ray rentals a green light.
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Home Ent News: Distrib expands biz into Scandi, South Africa -- Global film and TV content distrib Entertainment One, which recently rebranded as eOne, announced Wednesday that it's expanding its home-entertainment biz into Scandinavia and South Africa.
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Home Ent News: Streambank appointed to unload assets -- The Hollywood Video name and those associated with the failed video store chain are up for sale.
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Home Ent News: Toon also came top in video, DVD release -- Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 toon "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" has sold 20,000 Blu-ray discs in its first week of release, topping the chart and becoming the first title to debut at No.1 in all three home entertainment formats in Japan.
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Home Ent News: Rental giant unveils second quarter earnings -- Netflix Inc.'s second-quarter performance got panned by investors Wednesday for bringing in less revenue than expected, even though the movie subscription service added a million more customers to produce another earnings extravaganza.
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Home Ent News: New format gooses moribund disc sales -- Robust sales of Blu-ray discs in the first half of the year are helping to slow declines in the overall DVD market, according to an industry-funded nonprofit group that tracks home entertainment sales.