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Home Ent News: Home entertainment arm closes offices -- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is shuttering its Korean office at the end of this month due to the country's sluggish DVD market.
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Home Ent News: Sales of film titles slows, but rentals rise -- When even "The Dark Knight" is expected to sell fewer discs than earlier blockbusters, it's clear that something is going on. For the first half of the year, the homevid biz was holding steady despite a tough economy. But sales started to lag as weeks, then months, went by without the arrival of a major B.O. hit on disc.
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Home Ent News: Duo sign deal to deliver service to Indonesia -- PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) and Hong Kong's PCCW have pacted to co-invest in Indonesian satellite TV group PT Indonusa Telemedia (Telkomvision) to deliver satellite TV, IPTV and other services to the country.
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Home Ent News: Company profits climb, but subscriptions fall -- TiVo Inc. managed consecutive quarters of profitability for the first time ever despite eroding subscriptions, demonstrating that the pioneer in digital video recorders is on track in reducing marketing expenses and subsidies.
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Home Ent News: Studio partners with Omnitoons for manga-style -- Paramount is to produce a string of mobile comics based on its current crop of movie properties.
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Home Ent News: 'CSI' creator creates digital hybrid -- "CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker has made a seven-figure deal with Dutton to create a series of three suspense-thriller "digital novels."
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Home Ent News: Producers of hit web series to release 'Resistance' -- The producers of hit Web series "Lonelygirl15" and "KateModern" will bow the third installment in an ongoing storyline, "LG15: The Resistance," next month across multiple websites.
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Home Ent News: 'Hulk' gets simultaneous international release -- Universal will release comicbook actioner ?The Incredible Hulk? on Blu-ray day-and-date internationally on Oct. 13.
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Home Ent News: Capital to help expand rentals firm to 40 cities -- Indian video rentals firm Seventymm has raised $12.5 million from U.S. and other investors to expand its business.
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Home Ent News: Nissan Live Sets stoke fan flames, boost sales -- In less than two years, Yahoo Music has become a distinctive repository of exclusive concerts and a significant part of marketing plans for veteran acts with new albums. Nissan Live Sets, shot in HD on a soundstage on the Fox lot, has quickly become as important a concert series as exists, whether it be on the Web or on broadcast television.
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Home Ent News: Composers can drive action more than in films -- A few weeks ago, an album called "Video Games Live: Volume One" debuted at No. 10 on Billboard's Classical Crossover Chart. Within a week, it had muscled out John Williams' latest "Indiana Jones" opus. For Tommy Tallarico, who has spent the last 20 years writing game music (including "Advent Rising") and who produced this collection, it felt like vindication.
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Home Ent News: Buyers upgrading to new format get incentive -- Paramount, the last studio to convert to Blu-ray, is now fully on the bandwagon, offering consumers a financial incentive to make the switch. Studio will give consumers who upgrade certain library titles -- including "The Godfather" and "Transformers" -- a $10 rebate through the end of the year.
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Home Ent News: First two films remastered for DVD, Blu-ray -- New 35mm restorations of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather: Part II" overseen by Francis Ford Coppola will unspool in a three-week run at Gotham's Film Forum starting Sept. 12.
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Home Ent News: Co. wanted 'GTA,' other games for the holidays -- Nearly six months after starting a public battle to take over the "Grand Theft Auto" publisher, Electronic Arts has withdrawn its $2 billion tender offer for Take-Two Interactive to enter private negotiations.
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Home Ent News: Online net to mix old TV shows, Web originals -- TheWB.com will officially launch Aug. 27 with a mix of old broadcast series and Web originals such as ?Whatever Hollywood,? a skein revolving around the antics of three pals called Suri, Apple and Shiloh.
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Home Ent News: All 55 shipping centers affected by outage -- Bad week for Netflix: The Netco has been hit by its worst technical outage ever.
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Home Ent News: Group pacts with three North American distribs -- Celestial Pictures, the film library and TV channels group built around the Shaw Brothers library, has signed three video distribution deals in North America.
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Home Ent News: Comcast hosts new on-demand service -- MGM is funneling its action movies and TV shows into a free video-on-demand service called Impact, which has just started on Comcast with 25 titles, including "The Terminator," "Enter the Ninja" and "Windtalkers."
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Home Ent News: HBO series now available through Apple -- HBO announced that all seasons of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning comedy series "Entourage" is available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store.
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Home Ent News: Vongo, ClickStar struggle against iTunes -- Two pioneering Internet movie download sites have silently switched off their servers.