Neowin News Feed for: Blockbuster

Angry Birds gets a blockbuster movie merchandise deal with Lego

Andy Weir — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:30:01 +0000

Rovio has announced that it is teaming up with Lego to launch new toys and merchandise to accompany the release of its upcoming 'Angry Birds Movie', which will premiere in spring 2016. Read more...

Block-buster: Tetris is being made into an "epic sci-fi movie"

Andy Weir — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:34:01 +0000

Tetris is, somehow, being made into a major Hollywood movie, and while the premise of the film hasn't yet been revealed, its producers promise that they're "not giving feet to the geometric shapes". Read more...

Block-buster: Warner Bros acquires rights for Minecraft movie

Andy Weir — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:30:20 +0000

The hit game Minecraft - which allows users to build virtually anything in a blocky digital world - looks set to become a blockbuster movie, as Warner Bros acquires the rights to turn it into a film. Read more...

Blockbuster UK to shut down remaining 91 stores by Monday

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:48:26 +0000

Blockbuster UK has announced that it will shut down its remaining 91 stores in the country by Monday, resulting in the loss of 808 jobs and putting an end to the video and game retailer. Read more...

End of an era: DISH to close remaining US Blockbuster stores

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:44:28 +0000

DISH has announced that it will close the 300 or so remaining Blockbuster retail stores in the U.S. by early January 2014, while also shutting down the Blockbuster By Mail DVD service in December. Read more...

Netflix-like Blockbuster Movie Pass announced

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:07:12 +0000

Dish Network finally announced Blockbuster Movie Pass, a streaming movie service like Netflix. However, people can only access it by subscribing to Dish Network, at least for now. Read more...

Blockbuster Canada to liquidate and close all remaining stores

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:20:14 +0000

Blockbuster made the tough announcement early today that they will begin to liquidate and close all remaining locations starting tomorrow at 10am. Read more...

Rumor: Dish Network to launch Netflix-like service

John Callaham — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:18:55 +0000

A new report claims that Dish Network and Blockbuster Video will launch a subscription-based streaming video service that could be a big rival to Netflix and its over 25 million users. Read more...

Netflix's subscription price hike causes a massive net protest

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:03:40 +0000

Netflix's decision to raise the prices of its streaming video-DVD mail order rental combos by 60 percent has started a massive net protest against the company. The original announcement of the price changes on Netflix's... Read more...

Blockbuster blocking rooted Android devices as well

Steve Donaghy — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:24:36 +0000

A few days ago, we reported on how Google's new Movie service was deliberately being blocked if your device was rooted and now the plot seems to have thickened somewhat. A new application was recently... Read more...

Blockbuster tests Games By Mail service

Jonathan Downin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:26:02 +0000

It is no secret that Blockbuster’s earnings have been on a downward slope. While loss of market share to services such as Netflix and redbox have had an impact on their movie rental business, GameFly... Read more...

Blockbuster OnDemand coming to TiVo

Christopher Vendemio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:02:52 +0000

Blockbuster is hoping to expand the reach of its own OnDemand service with the announcement that the service will be extended to all broadband connected TiVo boxes sometime in the second half of the year.... Read more...

Blockbuster releases 2Wire MediaPoint video-on-demand unit

Doug Bemis — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:33:06 +0000

It almost seems natural for a video rental store that has been around since 1985 to look towards joining the digital revolution, and that is what they are now doing. Moving past their movie-to-mailbox,... Read more...

Blockbuster Sued For Participating In Facebook's Beacon Program

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:27:44 +0000

A Texas resident has filed a federal lawsuit against Blockbuster for participating in Facebook's Beacon program, which tells members about their friends' e-commerce activity. In the lawsuit, quietly filed last week, Dallas County resident... Read more...

Silverlight & Blockbuster brings you Jackass 2.5, for Free

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:40:27 +0000

In one of the most bizarre agreements I have yet reported on, the makers of Jackass 1 and 2 have agreed to team up with Microsoft to release JACKASS 2.5, for free, using the software... Read more...

Blockbuster Tests Pricing, New Formats

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:01:52 +0000

No. 1 movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc said on Thursday it was testing pricing for its rental formats and will experiment with its store layouts to add downloading stations, books or beverages in a bid... Read more...

Blockbuster Acquires Movielink

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:53:39 +0000

The rivarly between two popular online movie rental businesses, Netflix and Blockbuster's Total Access, is about to heat up; Total Access, although reportedly adding subscribers faster than Netflix, lagged behind in one area: on demand... Read more...

Blockbuster and Netflix settle patent battle

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:56:20 +0000

After nearly a year of back-and-forth attacks from Blockbuster and Neflix, the lawsuit battle regarding DVD rentals over the Internet is finally over. According to an SEC filing by Blockbuster, the terms of the settlement... Read more...

Blockbuster Goes With Blu-ray

Christopher Vendemio — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:59:57 +0000

Sure, there have been recent stories about rotting discs and HD-DVD players outselling stand alone Blu-ray players (or not), but there's good news for the Blu-ray camp, very good news. With an expected announcement... Read more...

Microsoft Preps Longhorn Blockbuster for PDC 2005

Steven Parker — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:13:10 +0000

Thanks neufuse for the heads up on Paul Thurrott's article which takes us through his expectations of the PDC 2005 event in September. No one was more disappointed in the Longhorn content... Read more...

Blockbuster to split from Viacom parent

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:08:52 +0000

After a split off financial exchange deal, Blockbuster and Viacom will no longer be together. The terms of the deal will give Blockbuster a $5 dividend, with a total payout to all shareholders of over... Read more...