Redbox is set to announce a partner for its entry into the streaming business Thursday on parent company Coinstar’s third-quarter earnings call, according to Merriman Curhan Ford analyst Eric Wold, who predicts Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) or Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will be named.

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. Paramount is joining Sony (NYSE: SNE), Lions Gate, and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS)—all of which let Redbox rent their new DVDs on the same day they go…

It took a couple of extra months but Fox and Universal have agreed to roughly the same deal with DVD rental kiosk company Redbox as Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) did in February. Both studios will now provide Redbox with “improved economic terms,” as well as additional access to Blu-ray titles,…

Redbox has ended its lawsuit against Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and will give in to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit’s demands for a longer lead time before the DVD kiosk operator makes its rentals available. The deal calls for new release DVD and Blu-ray titles to be made available…

Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) and Redbox have extended their trial rental rev-share agreement by six more months. The two companies first announced the deal in August; it gave Viacom-owned Paramount an undisclosed percentage of the $1-per-night fees that Redbox charged for any of the studio’s movies it rented, for four…

Redbox’s latest claim in its lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Home Video is that the two studios are encouraging retailers like Wal-mart to limit the number of DVDs that the kiosk-maker can buy. Redbox initially filed suit against Fox and Warner this summer, for trying to impose new…

DVD rental service Redbox’s revenues were up 90 percent in Q3, to $198.1 million, though the LAT notes that the growth is starting to slow. That could be why the company—which is known for its $1-per-night rentals—has been testing $2 rentals for new releases in some cities (via Video Business).…

Twentieth Century Fox has filed a motion to dismiss what it calls the “meritless” lawsuit that DVD rental kiosk company Redbox filed against it in August. Redbox is suing because Fox wants to impose release delays—essentially, giving itself time to sell more DVDs before the kiosk company rents them for…

The Hollywood/Redbox saga continues, though Paramount has added an interesting twist. The Viacom-owned movie studio is testing out a new rental revenue-sharing deal with Redbox, which is different than the wholesale deals the DVD kiosk company currently has with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures and Lionsgate. The LAT reports that Paramount…

Maybe Redbox’s lawyers get a bonus when they hit a certain number of lawsuits but this is getting to be a bit much. Yes, like Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee, we knew this was coming: Redbox couldn’t sue Universal and Fox over their new vending machine windows, then ignore Warner Bros.…

DVD rental biz Redbox took a big hit in its efforts to sue several Universal Studios units over a policy withholding new releases from vending machines for 45 days. After a months-long delay, U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler dismissed two counts in the suit late Monday, in a 13-page ruling…

The battle between the movie studios and new movie rental services (like Redbox and *Netflix*—but not Blockbuster) is quickly evolving into a full-blown war. Warner Bros. has joined Universal and Fox in trying to keep movies out of Redbox kiosks until about a month after their release date—but it doesn’t…

*Blockbuster* is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant—from brokering deals to get its OnDemand streaming service in Samsung TVs, to rolling out rental kiosks, to renting films through *TiVo*—but judging from its Q2 earnings performance, rivals like *Netflix* and Redbox continue to chip away at its core…

Add Twentieth Century Fox to the list of studios being sued by Redbox for imposing delays on new releases. The DVD vendor sued the studio Tuesday—the same day it announced a 5-year, estimated $158 million deal with Lionsgate.  (Via Video.Business.com) Redbox is waving the consumer flag, saying it wants to…

Low-cost DVD-rental service Redbox has brokered a new distribution deal with Lionsgate. The deal, which gives Redbox access to Lionsgate’s new releases the same day they go up for sale elsewhere, could net the studio an estimated $158 million over five years, according to an SEC filing by Redbox owner…

Redbox, the DVD rental kiosk company been bought out completely by its majority owner, publicly-traded coin-counting machine maker Coinstar. The company announced yesterday that it was paying GetAMovie Inc., an affiliate of McDonald’s, $10 million in cash and 1.5 million shares of Coinstar common stock, and will buy the the…

DVD kiosk retailer Redbox, which filed for an IPO in June (and likely won’t do it anytime soon with the market conditions) is in a scuffle with Universal Studios, where the NBCU-owned company has threatened to cut off Redbox’s supplies of movies from its stable, reports WSJ. Redbox has been…

Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) has expanded its earlier partnership with NCR, and will be deploying about 50 DVD rental kiosk machines in a pilot test…this expands on their earlier announced separate deal for download-only kiosks which are being tested in Dallas area. The DVD-rental only kiosks will start to appear in…

Redbox, the distributor of DVDs via kiosk, plans to file for an IPO sometime during the current quarter, reports VideoBusiness (via NTV). The company, which is majority owned by publicly traded Coinstar, operates kiosks in over 5,000 locations across the country in stores like Walgreens and McDonald’s (which owns a…