Paramount Home Entertainment’s release of DreamWorks’ Eagle Eye, an action thriller that grossed $101.1 million in United States, soared to the top spot on both the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart and Home Media Magazine’s rental chart its first full week of release.
The home entertainment market proved a lot more stable in 2008 than many had feared. Final figures for the year show consumers spent an estimated $22.4 billion buying and renting home entertainment software, down just 5.5% from the previous year’s $23.7 billion.
Paramount Home Entertainment is once again doubling up with its Feb. 6 release of 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,' the $170 million-grossing sequel to 2005’s 'Madagascar.'
LAS VEGAS — LG Electronics opened the 2009 International CES confab with the introduction of two new slimmer Blu-ray players (BD370 and BD390), wireless plasma and LCD televisions with internal HDMI connectivity and content partners Yahoo and YouTube.
A lawsuit alleges the 2005 agreement in which Wal-Mart turned over its online DVD rental business to Netflix was the result of a “conspiracy” aimed to build a monopoly for online DVD rentals.
