Yesterday Fox announced a suspension of movie titles to Blockbuster Express and Redbox for at least 30 days from release. This joins them with Universal in a fight against the $1/day kiosk vendors. Last week, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes compared Redbox to $1 movie theaters to $1 movie theaters and said Warner [...]
Fox has joined in Universal’s campaign against the DVD rental kiosks by ordering wholesalers to stop supplying discs to Redbox and Blockbuster Express kiosks during the first 30 days after Fox film and television titles hit the market. The move, which News Corp. president Chase Carey hinted at Wednesday during an earnings conference call, follows [...]
In this new world of DVD Kiosk video rentals the consumers are getting a great product at a great deal. But its really messing with the model that the studios have setup. Consumers are pulling $1 movies out of rental kiosks in record numbers every day. This has prompted some of the [...]