'Hunger Games,' 'Battleship' swap on DVD sales and rental charts
A week after it was displaced by “Battleship,” “The Hunger Games” is back on top of the DVD sales charts.
September 14, 2012
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A week after it was displaced by “Battleship,” “The Hunger Games” is back on top of the DVD sales charts.
20th Century Fox is finalizing a deal to co-produce movies in China with Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese conglomerate that finalized its $2.6-billion purchase of U.S. theater chain AMC Entertainment this week.
Walt Disney Studios will no longer release movies from its partner DreamWorks Studios around the world.
Redbox has extended its deal with Sony Pictures, continuing an agreement that makes Sony the largest Hollywood studio to let the kiosk rental company rent its movies the same day they go on sale.
“Wrath of the Titans” and “21 Jump Street” debuted atop the DVD sales and rental charts last week, while other new entries “The Artist” and “A Thousand Words” lagged behind.
Knockoffs ‘draft’ off of major studios’ multimillion-dollar campaigns for similarly titled films. Newer distribution systems make it easier to reach the hurried consumers who are most likely to rent the wrong movie. Last year’s “Puss in Boots”was made on the lush 13-acre DreamWorks Animation campus in Glendale by 300 people working for four years at a cost of $130 million.
Netflix is testing a redesign of its website that would for the first time separate movies and television shows into separate tabs, each with dozens of subcategories to help users sort through their thousands of options.
“John Carter’s” journey into Redbox kiosks may be as complicated as a flight to Mars.