Updated below: Best Buy and Sonic Solutions, parent company of digital download service CinemaNow, have released more details about the on-demand content partnership they announced this summer. One of the more interesting tidbits is that Best Buy has acquired warrants that will allow it to buy an undisclosed amount of…

Best Buy wants a piece of the booming digital movie distribution business—and it has brokered a new deal with CinemaNow parent company Sonic Solutions to get it. Movie buffs will soon be able to download films directly from BestBuy.com, and through select devices the company sells in-store. This is the…

Blockbuster’s so-called plans have been changing in real time these days, it seems, as the world changes in real time as well: We pointed out yesterday Blockbuster’s continuing vaporware plans for online and mobile video. What was lost in the shuffle was the fact that the rental chain has dropped…

Updated: The sale price was even more of a fire sale: a mere $3 million, it turns out, and it also assumes some liabilities. Wow, that would have surely hurt its investors, listed below. Lionsgate had an 18.6 percent stake in the company. According to Sonic, CinemaNow has been generating…

This movies-from-your-PC-to-your-TV thing might actually be happening, judging from the deals happening—nevermind that consumer demand hasn’t exactly skyrocketed. Couple of new deals through the pipeline: —Netflix is continuing its quest to bring its online service to devices, and now is tying up with Samsung. The service will be embedded in…

Lionsgate Entertainment, without a digital executive for a while now (last was Adrian Sexton, who was VP of digital media and left in May 2006), has finally found it important enough to appoint someone, but didn’t go too far to find the person: it has appointed longtime CinemaNow CEO Curt…