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“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” opens on 2,894 screens this weekend and its prospects for matching its predecessor’s opening take are not good.
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Does a direct comparison with competitor Roku 3 on the Amazon.com home page indicate that the company is worried about its $99 Fire TV streaming media box?
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courtesy of ComcastOne of the arguments that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) makes in support of its $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is that wireless broadband is a...
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When Disney agreed in March to pay up to $950 million for Maker Studio, the acquisition was looked at as a testament to the value of a multichannel network -- an MCN in the lingo.
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The Walt Disney Co.About a week ago Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) removed the pre-ordering option for several DVD releases of popular movies from Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS). The dispute between the...
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courtesy of NetflixYears before there was Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple TV or Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), there was Blockbuster, one of the largest retailers in America and the primary...
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Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.The summer movie season has only three more weekends to run, including this one, which features a third installment of the senior citizen action heroes, “The...
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ThinkstockSeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) has had its share of problems as the public heard criticism of its treatment of captive animals. Now, it seems these problems are directly impacting...
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The Walt Disney Co.Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has apparently decided that when the going gets tough, the company will play tougher. In what appears to be the company’s latest distribution...
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The Walt Disney Co.The first weekend of August is now behind us and we have a new, all-time leading August movie release weekend champion. Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” grabbed $94 million...
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ThinkstockThe US Tennis Open, the single biggest tennis tournament to hit American soil each year at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City, will be underway in less than four weeks. The US Open is one...
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ThinkstockSylvester Stallone has been in the news lately, as a version of his new movie “The Expendables 3” has been illegally downloaded by 200,000 people. The first two versions of the movie...
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ThinkstockAccording to several media reports, upcoming movie “The Expendables 3” has been “leaked” online and downloaded by at least 200,000 people using file sharing system BitTorrent. The...
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Universal Studios; Comcast Corp.Last week’s big movie, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” pulled in more than $100 million in its first week, after an opening weekend of $72.6 million, but...
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At a time when the movie theater business is in jeopardy because ever more people stream premium video into their homes, a powerful new generation technology may help these traditional outlets to...
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