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Warner, DC bring Wonder Woman home

NOV. 20 | Warner Home Video and DC Comics will release animated DVD premiere Wonder Woman on Feb. 24 (prebook Jan. 20). Similar to this year’s hot comic film Iron Man, Wonder Woman is an “origins story” that follows the creation of the superhero, who starts as Princess Diana. More

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  • DVDs, Hollywood’s Profit Source, Are Sagging
    Conventional wisdom holds that Hollywood’s fortunes go up when the economy goes down. People still crave entertainment, particularly of the escapist variety, and movies remain within the budgets of most people.
  • MyTunes: from 45s to MP3s
    Listen carefully, and you'll hear the sound of a revolution. In just five years, many of us have radically changed the way we obtain and listen to music. With download sales set to overtake CD sales in the US by 2012, Richard Brophyasks six music fans of different ages how the shake-up has affected their collecting habits OVER THE past five years, the way people buy, consume and interact with music has changed radically. The success of iTunes and the growth in popularity of MP3 players, coupled with the availability of high-speed broadband, means that increasing numbers of music fans are downloading music. Not surprisingly, as more consumers buy digital music - iTunes reported at the start of 2008 that it had sold four billion songs since its 2003 launch - or download it from peer-to-peer networks, sales of music in physical formats have fallen.
  • Film industry sues iiNet over BitTorrent downloads
    The major film studios and Channel 7 in Australia are suing iiNet, claiming its customers have infringed their copyright.

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Paul Sweeting
MEDIA WONK

November 18, 2008
A Flash of inspiration
Yesterday’s news that Adobe is developing a full-blown version of Flash that wi...
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Samantha Clark
DISC DISH

November 20, 2008
The Duchess DVD, Blu-ray
Paramount will release the acclaimed Keira Knightley vehicle The Duchess on Dec. 28 (...
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Danny King
THE DOWN LOW

November 20, 2008
Logo Shows to Get On-Demand Treatment at TLAondemand.com
A big fan of Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World? If so, you&r...
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Susanne Ault
BLU STATE

November 19, 2008
IGN Is Game for Blu-ray
One of the biggest gamer sites, IGN.com, has launched a standalone Blu-ray channel, w...
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Danny King
DVDIALOG

November 17, 2008
Hellboy II Blu-ray disc pulls back the curtain
For a director known for making some of the most otherworldly movies in the business,...
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Marcy Magiera
BETWEEN THE LINES

November 17, 2008
Wal-Mart health is good for studios...
...if not other retailers. Amid worldwide economic turmoil, Wal-Mart Stores l...
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24: Redemption premiere
Fox held a New York City premiere for 24: Redemption with cast and crew on Nov. 19. An extended cut of the feature-length movie streets Nov. 25.
TV legends for Studio One
Koch Vision and The Archive of American Television celebrated the DVD release of Studio One Anthology on Nov. 7 at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood, Calif.
Having a Hell of a time
Universal held a DVD and Blu-ray release party for Hellboy II: The Golden Army with cast and crew on Nov. 11 at Element in Hollywood, Calif.

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Market Data


Kung Fu Panda debuts as the No. 1 seller.


Top DVD Sellers

RANKTITLE
1 KUNG FU PANDA
2 HELLBOY II: GOLDEN ARMY
3 SHREK THE HALLS

Top DVD Rentals

RANKTITLE
1 HELLBOY II: GOLDEN ARMY
2 GET SMART
3 KUNG FU PANDA


Source: Rentrak Corp.; week ended 11/15/2008

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Sweeting 11/14/2008
OPINION: New President, new rules?
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda
NOV. 14 | Beyond its already-historic nature, the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States presages the most sweeping changes in the laws and regulations shaping the media and technology industries in at least a decade and perhaps longer.
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Guest 7/11/2008
OPINION: Learning from the past
Samantha Clark is managing editor of VB (smclark@reedbusiness.com).
JULY 11 | Warner’s Blu-ray promotion is reminiscent of DVD’s early days
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