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... Ironically those DVD revenues are not likely to be helped by retailers who are putting ridiculously steep discounts on the most anticipated pre-Christmas releases. Walmart, Target and Amazon have all announced plans (Variety, 11/6/09) to make Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian and other new releases available for online purchase at or around $10. That might get a bunch of people to buy but there’s no money to be made there and as soon as the prices go back up those sucked in will ...
Friday night news dump
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Time for our usual week-ending grab bag of left over and end-of-week movie stories…
* Two executive deaths today. First was 76 year-old nearly lifelong Paramount executive Gino Campagnola. That was followed by Nick Counter of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. As Nikki Finke recounts, he was the guy whose job it was to negotiate with unions in the recent strikes. Not surprisingly, there are some hard feelings, as evidenced by some of her commenters who really crossed the line in terms of simply being mean about the man’s death.
As a liberal, I’m always going to tend to side with unions, but the man is ...
Online Retailers Offer New DVD Releases for $10
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It will be a better than usual holiday season for DVD deals. Variety says that three of the leading online retailers, Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon, are dropping prices on new releases through the floor to try to increase fourth-quarter stales...I mean sales. ...
