Billionaire jumps into the Hollywood Video fray
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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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Billionaire financier Carl Icahn has acquired an 8.4 percent stake in movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp., according to a regulatory filing on Friday.
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The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers. But a Silicon Valley startup is tackling those obstacles, hoping to become the first major provider of cinema straight from the Internet to the living room boob tube.
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Hugh Hefner's Playboy lifestyle is set to hit the big screen.
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A brand is transformed on the silver screen.
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He shot Hollywood's first multimillion-dollar epic. He stretched boundaries on sex and violence. He launched the careers of Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, and his many Hollywood loves included Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner.
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Billionaire Barry Diller, the entertainment mogul who ran some of the world's media giants and helped create Fox Broadcasting, said yesterday he will turn to Wall Street to create a new publicly traded online travel company anchored by the Expedia franchise.
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A saga involving a campaign to turn Hollywood Video&#39;s Wilsonville-based parent company private turned into a cliffhanger on Thursday when rival Blockbuster Inc.
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The billionaire tech entrepreneur makes his first appearance on the corny ABC reality show on Tuesday night. On his blog, he gives some hints.
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Former billionaire Stelios Haji-Ioannou loves winning the good fight, whether battling US movie studios, the car rental industry or travel agents.
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An investment firm run by former Walt  Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner has launched a studio  that will produce and distribute videos for the Internet,  portable media devices and cell phones, as Hollywood strives to  reach tech-savvy viewers online.
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An industry giant is inspired to spend billions on its own shares.
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While Hollywoodâs top directors have been creating commercials for decades, they are now finding a new reason for ad work: to keep up in a multimedia world.
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A video with Will Ferrell has become a sensation on a Web site that has the backing of a major venture capital firm.
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Popular video technology earns the codec company a strong IPO.
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The music video business, long synonymous with MTV and more recently identified online with Yahoo Launch and AOL, is about to get even more competitive thanks to cable and Internet convergence.
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Fresh off negotiating a landmark deal for the creators of South Park, lawyer Kevin Morris is trying to build bridges between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.