Blockbuster Offers $700 Mln for Hollywood Video
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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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Blockbuster Inc. launched a hostile $991.6 million offer yesterday to acquire smaller rival Hollywood Entertainment Corp. , escalating a two-way takeover battle for the video rental chain.
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Blockbuster Inc said on Thursday it  will raise prices for its Total Access subscription plans and  lower prices for two DVD By Mail plans in an effort to pare  losses and boost subscribers.
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Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N, the largest  U.S. video rental chain, on Tuesday unveiled plans to launch a  $1 billion hostile bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp.  HLYW.O if the smaller rival kept spurning its advances.
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TORONTO (CP) - Blockbuster Inc., the world&#39;s biggest video rental company, has presented a promise to eliminate late fees on movies and games in the new year.
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Video rental leader Blockbuster cut the price of its online service Wednesday, the latest shot in an escalating price war with Netflix and Wal-Mart.
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Blockbuster in talks to acquire Movielink for download service    LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S.
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Blockbuster has a nice big Christmas gift for movie fans. The video chain is finally dumping its late fees. Forget about rushing back to the store with those DVDs, videotapes and games.
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Video Giant Blockbuster indicated that it plans to, one way or another, acquire its primary rival, Hollywood Entertainment. Blockbuster says it plans to start a cash tender to buy its rival&#39;s shares if its board refuses to negotiate a takeover.
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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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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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Movie Gallery Inc. on Friday said it has offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. for an undisclosed sum, one week after Blockbuster Inc. bid about &#36;700 million for Hollywood.
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Blockbuster Inc. is offering lower-priced plans for online movie rentals as it competes with Netflix Inc. in a market that some analysts say could grow more than 40 percent this year.
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Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday offered to raise its unsolicited bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp.
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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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Blockbuster Inc., locked in a bidding war for Hollywood Entertainment Corp., announced Wednesday that it may sweeten its offer for the rival video renter.
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Blockbuster is offering lower-priced plans for online movie rentals to compete with Netflix.