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EMA honors its own.

Jun 30, 2008 ... Staff The Entertainment Merchants Assn. gave out its annual awards to retailers and celebrities during Home Media Expo last week in Las Vegas. Retailers of the Year IDEA Single Store Retailer: Video Plus & Tanning The owners of Video Plus & ...

Special EMA Awards.

Jun 30, 2008; Hulse, Ed ... By Ed Hulse Humanitarian Award: Ed Begley Jr. Activist Ed Begley Jr. balances a thriving acting career with work on behalf of environmentally friendly causes. Star of the HGTV series Living With Ed (Gaiam), Begley recently finished narrating entries in the Earth ...

Salute to Classic TV.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Cindy Spielvogel Favorite Television Child Star: Josie Davis Josie Davis played Sarah Powell in the later half of the 1984-90 TV series Charles in Charge (Arts Alliance America). She then landed the role of Camille Desmond in Beverly Hills 90210 before becoming a ...

New Releases.

Jun 30, 2008 ... Edited by Samantha Clark ...

Lionsgate eyes growing share.(Lions Gate Films Inc.)

Jun 30, 2008; King, Danny ... By Danny King Studio has 12 more targeted theatricals to open this year LAS VEGAS--Lionsgate said it will continue to defy the trend of declining DVD sales in the U.S. by widening its selection in the children's, horror and direct-to-DVD genres, while feeding early ...

Keyes: Studios should mitigate Blu-ray cost.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Marcy Magiera Panelists say digital is growing, not shifting market LAS VEGAS--The potential of Blu-ray Disc to extend the life of packaged media and the challenges to getting mainstream consumers to quickly adopt the high-definition format dominated the opening ...

Scene & Noted.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Staff SCENE: Sony promoted Eric Daly to VP of sales research. He will report to Jason Spivak, senior VP of strategic development. -- Suzanne Cole has been promoted to executive VP of media at Universal , from senior VP of media. -- Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes has been named ...

New DVD features can help stores.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Susanne Ault LAS VEGAS--Distributors advised independent rentailers to improve promotion of digital copy and Blu-ray Disc to help them stay competitive against mass merchants and online stores during a Home Media Expo presentation here last week. Many indie ...

BD Live on all Sony releases.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Susanne Ault LAS VEGAS--Sony is pledging to feature BD Live interactivity on all of its future Blu-ray releases. Rich Marty, Sony's VP of new business development, demonstrated the BD ...

Warner offers first iPod copy.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Susanne Ault Warner offered its first digital copy for iTunes and iPod playback on the June 24 Blu-ray release of 10,000 B.C. Due ...

Fox, Warner have love of Ellroy.(Warner Bros.)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008; Clark, Samantha ... By Samantha Clark Fox has set Aug. 19 for the release of Street Kings , based on a James Ellroy novel, a month before Warner will deliver a special edition of Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential , also based on an Ellroy novel. Starring Keanu Reeves and Forest ...

VOD in demand.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Paul Sweeting Studio efforts to craft a limited, high-def video-on-demand window ahead of movies' DVD and Blu-ray release hit a snag in Washington last week when the Federal Communications Commission extended the public-comment period on the Motion Picture Assn. of America's ...

Spider Woman in Amazon's web.(City Lights Home Entertainment)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Cheryl Cheng In a deal with City Lights Home Entertainment, online retailer Amazon will offer Hector Babenco's 1985 Oscar-nominated film The Kiss of the Spider Woman exclusively to rent or own on several platforms. The film is available now on Amazon's Unbox as a ...

Warner stacks boxes.(Warner Bros.)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008; Magiera, Marcy ... By Marcy Magiera LAS VEGAS--Warner is doubling its releases of collector's editions. In the studio's "Warner Gallery" at the Palms hotel during the Home Media Expo here, Warner's Jeff Baker (l.) showed off the upcoming 300 Limited Collector's Edition to EMA's Bo Andersen (c.) ...

Blu-ray needs bigger show in stores.

Jun 30, 2008; Ault, Susanne ... By Susanne Ault Home Media Expo panelist calls for BD Live demo stations LAS VEGAS--Analysts painted a mostly rosy picture for Blu-ray Disc consumer traction at a Home Media Expo session here last week, but they acknowledged such adoption hurdles as strong ...

Peace Arch, Allumination join forces.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Danny King Peace Arch Entertainment's U.S. home entertainment division and ContentFilm Plc's Allumination FilmWorks unit will merge next month, four months after Toronto-based Peace Arch dropped its bid for U.K.-based ContentFilm. The transaction creates what the companies ...

Vivendi enrolls Stein.(Vivendi Entertainment)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008; Lerman, Laurence ... By Laurence Lerman Vivendi Entertainment has acquired home entertainment rights to the controversial indie documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed . The supplier will release the film on DVD on Oct. 21. The film examines the theory of intelligent design and ...

Mill Creek bowing Howdy Doody discs.(Consumer Products Group)(DVD Music )(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008; Cheng, Cheryl ... By Cheryl Cheng In a deal with NBC Universal Television, DVD Music and Consumer Products Group, Mill Creek will release the classic children's series The Howdy Doody Show (prebook Oct. 4) in a five-disc deluxe box set. In addition to 40 episodes from the series, ...

Top DVD Sellers.

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Staff Week ended June 21, 2008 ...

Top Blu-ray Titles.(Table)(Brief article)

Jun 30, 2008 ... By Staff Week ended June 21, 2008 <Pre>Top Blu-ray Titles -------------------------------------------------------- Rank Title (label/distributor) 1 JUMPER (FOX, $39.98) 2 FOOL'S GOLD (WB, $35.99) 3 THE BUCKET LIST (WB, ...