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• Soaring Online Revenue Boosts U.S. Home-Video Spending

  Fast-growing Internet services like Netflix Inc., online movie purchases and DVD rentals from Redbox kiosks lifted U.S. home-video spending in the third quarter, countering the continued drop in DVD sales.

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  Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy After Online Rivals Gain

  Blockbuster Inc. , the world’s biggest movie-rental company, filed for bankruptcy after failing to adapt its storefront model to online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.

• Blockbuster, Bear Island, Thompson, Old GM, Meruelo Maddux: Bankruptcy

  Blockbuster Inc. , the movie rental chain, received interim approval from a bankruptcy judge yesterday for $45 million in financing from a promised loan that will grow to $125 million at the final hearing on Oct. 19.

• Blockbuster, Lehman, Tribune, Abitibi: Bankruptcy

  Blockbuster Inc. , the world’s biggest movie-rental company, filed for bankruptcy today after failing to adapt its storefront model to online technology pioneered by rivals such as Netflix Inc.

• Blockbuster Wins Bankruptcy Court Approval to Borrow $25 Million of Loan

  Blockbuster Inc. , the movie-rental company that filed for bankruptcy last week, won interim court approval to pay as much as $40.4 million to studios to maintain the supply of movies.

• Sony Joins Companies Saying Blockbuster Isn't Paying Them for Merchandise

  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. joined a group of other movie companies in complaining that video-rental chain Blockbuster Inc . isn’t paying them for merchandise.

• Terra, ‘Pit Bull’ Lawyer, Foreclosures in Court News

  David Wormsley, the Citigroup Inc. banker accused by Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. founder Guy Hands of misleading him about an auction of EMI Group Ltd. , said he was the victim of a lie told by Hands the weekend before the bidding in May 2007.

• Blockbuster Counsel Weil Rejects Claim It Has Conflict

  Blockbuster Inc. ’s bankruptcy counsel, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP , said its work for film studios doesn’t create a conflict of interest with its representation of the movie-rental company, as an investor claims.

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  Kazan Inspired Brando, Aided Red Witch Hunt; Novak's Glamour:: Rainer File

  I can’t think of a better holiday gift for cinephiles than “ The Elia Kazan Collection ,” a boxed set of 15 Kazan films from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, four of which have never before appeared on DVD.

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  Hollywood Said to Court Amazon in Bid for Online Film Sales

  Hollywood studios, working to spur purchases of films and TV shows, are in talks to bring Amazon.com Inc. back into their online system called UltraViolet, people with knowledge of the situation said.

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