Update 4: Blockbuster to Make Hollywood Hostile Bid
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Blockbuster Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a hostile bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp. next month if the rival&#39;s directors won&#39;t negotiate a deal.
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PORTLAND, Ore. Dallas-based Blockbuster Incorporated may have more competition in its bid to acquire Hollywood Video. Billionaire Carl Icahn has jumped into the Hollywood Video takeover fray.
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Blockbuster Inc. , the largest U.S. video rental chain, on Tuesday unveiled plans to launch a &#36;1 billion hostile bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp.  if the smaller rival kept spurning its advances.
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Video rental chain Movie Gallery Inc. on Friday said it has made an offer to acquire Hollywood Entertainment Corp., countering a &#36;700 million takeover proposed last week by Blockbuster Inc. and a pending bid from a Los Angeles buyout firm.
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Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said it would eliminate late fees on movies and games in the latest attempt to jump-start a rental business
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Fort Worth, Texas - Blockbuster is tired of being the butt of jokes on Leno and Letterman. And, even closer to home, it wants to eliminate what the company&#39;s president calls &quot;those unpleasant conversations at the register.
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(CBS/AP) Blockbuster Inc., plans to eliminate late fees on games and movies as of Jan. 1. But there is plenty of fine print, which suggests that the nation&#39;s biggest movie rental company is still struggling
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Blockbuster has stepped up the pressure on Hollywood Entertainment by threatening to take its $700m (Â£362m) offer for the rival US video rental chain hostile if its management does not agree to negotiate.
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Hollywood Entertainment Corp.  HLYW.O, which may face a hostile takeover bid by Blockbuster  Inc. BBI.N, on Monday agreed to be bought by smaller rival  Movie Gallery Inc. MOVI.O for about $850 million in a merger  of two big U.S. video rental chains.
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Blockbuster Inc.  on Wednesday offered to raise its unsolicited bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp. , but said it was denied access to the rival movie chain's books, making a friendly offer unlikely.
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Blockbuster Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a hostile bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp. next month if the rival's directors won't negotiate a deal.
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Blockbuster Inc. said on Tuesday it remains committed to acquiring Hollywood Entertainment Corp. despite an &#36;850 million bid for the No. 2 video chain by Movie Gallery Inc. last week.
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Movie Gallery Inc. said Friday it has offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. for an undisclosed sum, one week after Blockbuster Inc.
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NEW YORK -- Blockbuster appears to have kicked off a bidding war for Hollywood Entertainment on Thursday after the No. 1 video retailer said it&#39;s prepared to offer about $742 million for its closest, albeit still distant, rival.
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Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) had better watch out. The steady trickle of announcements coming out of this once-mighty video rental giant just might make people think that things really are as bad as they seem.
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Blockbuster Inc. is in talks to buy movie download service Movielink, including long-term contracts with Hollywood's major studios to supply films and TV shows, for under $50 million in cash and stock, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
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Right to privacy? No doubt emboldened by Carl Icahn&#39;s interest in the matter, Blockbuster (nyse: BBI - news - people ) said it may approach Hollywood Entertainment (nasdaq: HLYW - news - people ) investors directly with an offer.