UPDATE 1-Movie Gallery offers to buy Hollywood
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Movie Gallery Inc. (MOVI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it has offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp.
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Video rental chain Hollywood  Entertainment Corp. HLYW.O, which may face a hostile takeover  bid by industry leader Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N, on Monday  agreed to be bought by smaller rival Movie Gallery Inc.  MOVI.O for $850 million.
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Blockbuster Inc., the largest U.S.  video rental chain, on Thursday said it has offered to buy  competitor Hollywood Entertainment Corp. for about $700  million, topping Hollywood's agreement with a private buyout  firm.
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Contrarian Capital Management, an investment advisor that owns some 1.9 million shares of Hollywood Entertainment Corp., said on Wednesday it asked the No. 2 U.S. video store to rethink its decision to go private through a buyout.
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The country&#39;s largest video store chain made an offer to buy arch rival Hollywood Entertainment yesterday. It&#39;s a risky effort to stave off competition from online DVD rental services like
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For several years now, the refrain in the movie industry has been: "We don't want to make the same mistake as the music industry." Hollywood studios, having ventured billions of dollars on their titles, say they can't afford to let customers get used to finding movies via black-market file-sharing.
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Bigflicks.com has about 1,000 movies, downloadable for $2 to $15.
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The Walt Disney Co.  on  Wednesday became the latest Hollywood studio to offer movies  for sale via the Internet by providing films like recent  thriller &quot;Flightplan&quot; to CinemaNow, the online service said.
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The nation&#39;s leading chain of video rental stores has raised the stakes on Hollywood Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: HLYW). Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc.
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Hollywood Entertainment Corp. on  Monday accepted an $850 million acquisition offer from smaller  rival Movie Gallery Inc., but a four-way takeover battle for  the video rental chain appears far from over.
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Movie Gallery Inc. said on Monday antitrust regulators have cleared its proposed merger with movie renter Hollywood Entertainment Corp., a step that could complicate a hostile bid from Blockbuster Inc. .
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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 studio Lionsgate has agreed to begin selling its movies on Apple's iTunes Store, joining Disney and Paramount and bringing the number of available films up to 400. "Terminator 2," "LA Story," "Total Recall," and "The Blair Witch Project" are among the 150 movies being offered by Lionsgate this month for $9.99.
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Companies will offer a service that authenticates movies, music, and games.
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Shares of Hollywood Entertainment Corp. rose sharply on Friday on mounting speculation that the No. 2 U.S. movie rental chain could get rival bids topping Blockbuster Inc.'s offer to buy the company for about &#36;700 million.
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Video rental giant Hollywood Entertainment Corp. has agreed to a buyout offer of nearly &#36;850 million from smaller rival Movie Gallery Inc. in a deal that would create a stronger challenger to the industry leader, Blockbuster Inc.