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Settle in for a tale of retailer exclusives, international editions and the Bittorrenting that ensues when a Blu-ray release goes wrong. Read more at GigaOM »
A new streaming video service called HitBliss lets users earn virtual cash by watching targeted ads. They can then redeem their earnings for new movies and TV episodes. Read more »
Google added new Japanese reading features to its ebooks app yesterday and is now selling the Nexus 7, ebooks and movies through the Google Play store in Japan. Kobo expanded to Japan in July, and Kindle is expected to launch there in October. Read more »
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The government-licensed operator of cable-based VOD and PPV services in China now has four of Hollywood’s six major studios in its portfolio. Read more »
The studio behind the famous Godfather trilogy is asking a court to make the franchise’s literary heirs an offer they can’t refuse. Read more »
Tom Lesinski, who has headed digital at Paramount (NYSE: VIA) as long as it’s mattered, is out in a major reorganization that folds the Para… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details on the Foxconn factory explosion; reports of a curvaceous future for the i… Read more »
Word leaked earlier this week that YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) was going to start renting out premium movie content, putting it in a position to co… Read more »
Judging by today’s hearings, some members of Congress are willing to consider radical measures to rid the internet of “rogue” websites accus… Read more »
They may be embroiled in a legal fight to the death, but that doesn’t mean Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can’t be admiring of Viacom’s employees. Alex… Read more »
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Viacom’s Paramount Home Entertainment will provide Redbox with its new releases on the same day they go on sale, under a long-term agreement… Read more »
Another win for fledgling premium net Epix HD: a deal with Dish Network to offer the service to those of its 14.1 million customers who subs… Read more »
Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) and Redbox have extended their trial rental rev-share agreement by six more months. The two companies fir… Read more »
Voddler, a Swedish VOD tech and content provider, has raised $2.2 million in funding, per an SEC filing. The company is backed in part by De… Read more »
Last month, Viacom (NYSE: VIA) CEO Phillipe Dauman confidently said he expected new premium network Epix to add more distribution partners b… Read more »
Funny how certain Hollywood studios have chosen to embrace certain new movie distribution strategies, and yet fight hard against the evoluti… Read more »
The Hollywood/Redbox saga continues, though Paramount has added an interesting twist. The Viacom-owned movie studio is testing out a new ren… Read more »
Update: A source has confirmed that the talks are ongoing, but are preliminary (not advanced, as FT reported), and include the other studios… Read more »
The high-profile premium movie JV from Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate, now called Epix, is still optimistic on getting a d… Read more »
Back when I started writing about cable programming, if a wannabe network couldn’t get distribution on cable, it tried satellite in the hope… Read more »
Sandi Isaacs is leaving as Paramount Read more »
So much has been written about the new premium movie channel that is supposed to be launched jointly by Viacom (NYSE: VIA) with MGM, Lionsga… Read more »
Or you could just keep your existing PC/Mac and shell out $15 for the iTunes download… In its first step towards setting up a digital cont… Read more »
As Paramount unravels its tumultuous arrangement with DreamWorks SKG founders following the $1.2 billion investment they got from Reliance t… Read more »
Paramount Pictures, the Viacom-owned movie studio, has made its first gaming related acquisition: it has bought Seattle-based game developer… Read more »
Paramount Pictures is adding another feather to its mobile cap with a series of comics based on films from its catalog. Angus, Thongs and Pe… Read more »
It was leaked weeks ago but the players involved in the new premium network wouldn’t confirm officially: Mark Greenberg is president and CEO… Read more »
– Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access informati… Read more »
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Paramount are building an online store for downloading films to mobile phones, reports NMA.co.uk, citing an unnamed… Read more »
One sign that a company is ultra serious about a new venture: when the CEO of a major media company does press calls on a Sunday afternoon.… Read more »
Something unusual happened for iTunes users when Juno made its DVD debut this week: the Fox movie was also for sale as an iTunes download fo… Read more »
– *NBCU* to offer original webisodes of its primetime shows: NBC Digital Entertainment will release original web content based on its exist… Read more »
Paramount Pictures said this year it will be expanding its interactive department to publish video games, focusing in particular on casual,… Read more »
So now it turns out that the DVD format wars aren’t completely over after all. Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) Paramount Pictures is denying earlier re… Read more »
It looks like Toshiba’s booth at CES is going to look a little lonelier: Paramount is ready to switch its allegiance from HD DVD in light of… Read more »
Viacom (NYSE: VIA) owned Paramount Studios and co-producer MTV New Media are debuting the latest version of its Jackass franchise online, wh… Read more »
Not that a lot of people are interested in Movielink’s fate anymore, after it got sold to Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) earlier this year, but if… Read more »
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