A few weeks ago we reported that Redbox was the subject of a class action lawsuit claiming that it has illegally collected $100 million in fees. According to the filing:
“While it boasts ‘easy $1 a night DVD rentals’ ‘with no late fees…ever,’ that is not the truth. . . Instead, Redbox charges its customers who return a movie even one minute late a late fee in the form of an illegal penalty.”
Brent Coon & Associates, the lawyers behind the suit, have now created a website promoting their cause. Read the rest of this entry »
Insiders, we wanted to tell you about a limited-time offer currently available from Redbox’s parent company, Coinstar. Between now and December 6, 2009, when you change $40 at a Coinstar machine for a certificate from one of Coinstar’s retail partners, the kiosk company will send you an additional $10 bonus gift card by mail. Read the rest of this entry »
The other day we heard from Gary Cohen, Redbox’s marketing chief, as he fielded questions about the company’s past, present and future. Now we have the chance to hear from the Big Red himself: Mitch Lowe. The Redbox CEO recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss delayed new releases, the recession and his view on a post-DVD world. Read the rest of this entry »
Because of the new release delays imposed on it by three major studios, Redbox has had to become creative to obtain desirable titles the first weeks they are out. Several weeks ago, financial services firm Merriman Curhan Ford found that Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a popular animated film, was only stocked in around two-thirds of the more than 50 Redbox kiosks it checked. On November 14, the firm checked the same kiosks again and found the DVD stocked in 94% of the boxes.
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For consumers who like their video-on-demand piping hot and fresh, November’s going to be a great month. This month will see a higher number of same-day VOD and DVD releases than any other month to date. Studios, along with cable and satellite providers, are going to be massively hyping new releases coming out on VOD and DVD simultaneously.
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Check out what’s coming to Redbox this week, and let us know if something is missing…
Bruno R
Starring:
Sacha Baron Cohen
Genre:
Comedy, Hit Movies
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Gotta Catch Santa Claus NR
Starring:
William Shatner (v)
Genre:
Family, Holiday, Kids
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Little Cars Big Adventures NR
Starring:
NA
Genre:
Family, Kids
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My Sister's Keeper PG-13
Starring:
Abigail Breslin, Cameron Diaz
Genre:
Drama, Hit Movies
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Star Trek PG-13
Starring:
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
Genre:
Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Hit Movies
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard R
Starring:
David Koechner, Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames
Genre:
Comedy, Hit Movies
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The Killing Room R
Starring:
Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton
Genre:
Drama, Suspense
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The Locator 2 Braxton Returns NR
Starring:
Andre Buckner, Chris Durant, Cristina Kellogg
Genre:
Action & Adventure
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year NR
Starring:
Brooke Burns, Henry Winkler, Warren Christie
Genre:
Family, Holiday, Romance
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Train R
Starring:
Gideon Emery, Thora Birch
Genre:
Action & Adventure, Horror, Suspense
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Wrong Turn at Tahoe R
Starring:
Cuba Gooding, Jr., Harvey Keitel
Genre:
Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Suspense
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Gary Cohen, SVP of Marketing and Customer Experience at Redbox, was recently interviewed at the NewTeeVee Live ‘09 conference. During the course of the interview, which can be found in its entirety here, Cohen made some interesting comments about Redbox’s impact on the home entertainment market, where the company is today and what it has planned for the future. Read the rest of this entry »
Nothing is going to usher in wider adoption of broadband internet more quickly than online video streaming, says Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. At the NewTeeVee Live conference this week, Hastings called his company’s streaming video service “a killer app for broadband data”. According to Hastings, the main reason customers upgrade to faster internet service isn’t because of email or basic web surfing—it’s because of bandwidth-demanding video streaming such as Netflix’s service.
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It seems the buzzards might be circling a little lower over once-mighty Blockbuster, whose third-quarter results revealed a massive hemorrhaging of both dollars and customers. The nation’s largest video rental company has revealed that its revenues sank 24% this last quarter, a steeper drop than investors were anticipating. Additionally, same-store sales declined at double the expected amount.
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Remember the scene at the end of The Aviator when Leonardo DiCaprio/Howard Hughes stares into a mirror and repeats “The way of the future, the way of the future,” over and over? He may well have been talking about online media viewing, based on the results of a recent study by Parks Associates. According to the study, the number of U.S. broadband households that watch television shows and movies online has doubled in the last year.
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