JUNE 1 | Trans World Entertainment is taking its recent emphasis on DVD and other non-music products to new lengths in an F.Y.E.
prototype store that pushes CDs behind movies and themed merchandise. JUNE 1 | FROM VARIETY--Few industryites have doubted that Best Buy and Blockbuster would find their way into the movie download biz soon, but confirmation came Thursday from one of their studio partners. JUNE 1 | DVD retailers Netflix, Amazon.
com and BarnesAndNoble.com rated as the top Internet sites overall when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to a new report from ForeSee Results. MAY 31 | Warner Home Video s Happy Feet, and indie film The Proposition from First Look Home Entertainment lead the list of nominees for the Entertainment Merchants Assn.
s 2007 Home Entertainment Awards. More than 138 films received nominations in 28 different categories, including top HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc release, top rental title, special interest title, sleeper title and family title. MAY 31 | The Coalition of Entertainment Retail Trade Assn.
has launched a new public service announcement, Read the Label, to coincide with its annual ratings awareness push in June. MAY 30 | Although generating flat sales compared to last year, Borders DVD category was among its better performing product areas during its fiscal 2007 first quarter. The book chain reported a $35.
9 million net loss for the three-month period ended May 5. That is widened from the $20.2 million Borders posted in the comparable 2006 period.
MAY 30 | Hours after the New York Assembly passed a videogame bill barring violent videogame sales to minors, the Entertainment Merchants Assn. blasted the law as ill-conceived and unconstitutional. A8696 would bar retailers from selling or renting games that depict depraved violence and indecent images to anyone under 17 years old.
Ariztical celebrated the May 29 DVD launch of its Eating Out 2 with a party at Eleven in West Hollywood, Calif. The gay sequel was released theatrically earlier this year.
The Chicago chapter of the Independent Dealers of Entertainment Assn.
held its second annual Free For All retailer event at the People's Choice Video Express store in Waukegan, Ill.
Brothers Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson visited the Blockbuster Video headquarters in Dallas with ThinkFilm execs the day after the premiere of their movie The Wendell Baker Story, which began a limited theatrical run on May 18.
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