News tagged with warner bros

Amazon teams with Fox ahead of tablet launch

Amazon is beefing up its movie and television catalog ahead of the expected launch of a tablet computer on Wednesday.

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Startup tries to put sociability back into movies

Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social.

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Judge slashes 'monstrous' fine in music piracy case

Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as "monstrous and shocking," a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.

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Wal-Mart to bridge online gap with disc-to-digital

(AP) -- Wal-Mart pledged to help introduce Hollywood's emerging online movie locker system to its customers, many of whom have never owned anything digital in their lives.

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Warner Bros. to impose 56-day delay on DVD rentals

Prepare to have your patience tested if you prefer to rent DVDs rather than buy them.

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Time Warner 4Q earnings edge up, beats Street

(AP) -- Time Warner Inc. got a boost from its movie studio and cable TV networks in the last three months of the year, and the company expects growth to continue in 2012 even with the end of its lucrative ...

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Hollywood flubs movie system launch, miffs users

(AP) -- Warner Bros. is learning a hard lesson about launching an ill-conceived product in the age of social media.

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Is new Warner Music buyer a sucker or savant?

(AP) -- Billionaire Len Blavatnik is spending $1.3 billion to buy Warner Music Group Corp. a decade into a steep decline in CD sales for the music industry.

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Sony's 'Smurfs,' 'Friends' to be UltraViolet-ready

(AP) -- Sony Corp.'s movie studio said Tuesday that "The Smurfs" and "Friends With Benefits" will be the first movies it releases on home video that will be compatible with the UltraViolet view-anywhere system.

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Studios' view-everywhere system has soft launch

(AP) -- A Hollywood initiative that aims to revive home video sales by enabling you to watch your purchased movies on multiple devices had a soft start Tuesday as Warner Bros. released "Horrible Bosses" without ...

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6 studios seek to lift barriers to online sales of films and TV shows

With fresh data showing that Hollywood's crucial home entertainment market shrank yet again in 2010, six of Hollywood's biggest studios are rolling out plans for boosting online sales of movies and TV shows.

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Holy download, Batman! 'Dark Knight' on Facebook

Warner Bros. is bringing movie rentals to Facebook, the first Hollywood studio to turn to the gigantic social network as a platform for its films.

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Netflix to delay delivery of Warner's latest DVDs

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. will delay sending out Warner Bros.' latest movies by nearly a month in a concession that the DVD-by-mail service made so it could gain rights to show its subscribers more movies over the Internet.

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Time Warner profits top forecasts

Media and entertainment giant Time Warner on Wednesday reported better-than-expected profits of 560 million dollars in the second quarter.

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Warner Bros scrambles to pull online Harry Potter clip

Warner Brothers said Thursday it was "working actively" to remove a section of the latest Harry Potter movie which has been "stolen" and illegally posted online, even before the film opens.

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