Smaller rival bids to buy Hollywood Entertainment
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Video rental giant Hollywood Entertainment Corp. has agreed to a buyout offer of nearly $850 million from smaller rival Movie Gallery Inc. in a deal that would create a stronger challenger to the industry leader, Blockbuster Inc.
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DALLAS Dallas-based Blockbuster Incorporated is gearing up for a hostile takeover of rival Hollywood Entertainment if the two don&#39;t progress on merger talks.
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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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Hollywood Entertainment's board wants shareholders to accept the lowest buyout offer. That's called negotiating?
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LONDON, England -- A Hollywood film producer is the latest name to be linked with a possible takeover bid for English football club Liverpool.
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Blockbuster Inc. has begun a hostile takeover of its smaller rival, Hollywood Entertainment Corp. Dallas-based Blockbuster officials said Friday the company had approached Hollywood's creditors to buy around &#36;225 million of the video retailer's debt, roughly two-thirds of the Oregon company's overall debt.
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Entertainment company teams up with new ad seller from the software giant.
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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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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. 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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The battle for video and DVD rentals heated up this week as Blockbuster indicated it would seek to buy out rival Hollywood video and would do so by hostile takeover if necessary.
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Blockbuster Inc. said yesterday 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. has raised its bid for rival movie-rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp., launching a hostile cash and stock offer valued at $1.3 billion that it hopes will derail Hollywood's pending sale to Movie Gallery Inc.
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Wall Street banks, private equity firms and hedge funds are increasingly trying to arrange and finance entertainment deals.
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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. , the top U.S. movie rental chain, said on Wednesday it is willing to raise its bid for Hollywood Entertainment Corp. , a rival that has two other suitors looking to buy it.
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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.