Disney comedy "Snow Buddies" tops DVD sales
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Disney's direct-to-video  sequel "Snow Buddies" scored a surprise win on the national DVD  sales chart Wednesday, beating several high-profile releases.
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Comedy Meet The Fockers remains top of the North American box office chart after taking another Â£23.7m.
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Family comedy Are We There Yet?, starring Ice Cube, tops the US box office in its opening week.
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Walt Disney Co.  said on  Wednesday that first quarter net earnings more than doubled  from a year ago, driven by DVD sales of "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Cars" and by the sale of an  E! Entertainment stake.
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(InfoWorld) - In only one week, Apple Computer's iTunes Store generated $1 million in movie sales for Walt Disney, and that's "just the beginning," the head of Disney said Tuesday. By the end of this year, Disney expects to reap $50 million in movie sales through the iTunes Store "at no marketing expense to us at all," said Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Disney, at a conference put on by The Goldman Sacks Group and webcast over the Internet. Disney became the first company to offer movies through the iTunes Store last week, a total of 75 films including new titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," and older classics such as "The Incredibles" and "Cinderella." The initial success of the venture, with over 125,000 Disney titles sold in a week, should help boost confidence in the Internet as a lucrative place for entertainment companies to deliver content to users. It should also help allay fears over movie piracy, an issue the movie and recording industry has fought a tough battle against. "We are very, very bullish on consumption over electronically delivered media and we're taking a very optimistic view of technology as a friend, or a great enabler, and not a great predator," Iger said. Disney plans to expand the number of movies it offers through iTunes and the number of Web-based stores where users can buy its movies. "This is not exclusive to Apple," he said. During the Goldman conference, Iger also praised Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his performance asÂ a Disney board memberÂ for bringing in his ideas on new opportunities for media in the Internet age. "He has become, very quickly, not only a great sounding board but a great advisor, someone I can turn to readily for advice in a lot of these areas," said Iger. Jobs became a major shareholder and board member of Disney after the media and entertainment giant bought computer animation studio Pixar earlier this year. Jobs had been head of Pixar and a major shareholder in the company. An audio webcast of comments by Iger can beÂ accessed here.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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DVD releases of "Cars" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" and ad revenue from ESPN's Monday Night Football are expected to boost Walt Disney Co's  first-quarter earnings by a double-digit percentage.
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Microsoft announced partnerships with Walt Disney, NBC Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to boost online video sales.
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The animal cartoon "Open  Season" easily took the top spot on the latest national DVD  sales chart, according to data issued Wednesday.
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Comedy Meet The Fockers topped the festive box office in North America, setting a new record for Christmas Day. The sequel took $44.7m (Â£23.2m) between 24 and 26 December, according to studio estimates.
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In another triumph for direct-to-video sequels to its animated theatrical features, Disney has topped the
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Animated comedy Happy Feet is North America's number one film, holding off Casino Royale for the third week.
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&quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; claimed the top North Amerian box office spot over the lucrative Christmas holiday weekend, grossing $44.7m.
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Thanksgiving came early for the stars of "Shrek 2" as the cast celebrated record-breaking DVD sales.
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Larry Mansdorf, a buyer for Newbury Comics Inc., realized as soon as he logged on to his computer that the just-released "Napoleon Dynamite" DVD was going to be the sleeper hit of the holiday season.
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Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert  Iger on Tuesday said the company sold 125,000 movie downloads  worth $1 million in revenue through Apple Computer Inc's iTunes  online music store in the first week Disney movies were  offered.
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"The Game Plan," a  football family comedy strategically released on DVD at the  peak of football season by Walt Disney Studios Home  Entertainment, easily captured the top spot on the national DVD  sales and rental charts for the week ending January 27.
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The Walt Disney Company and its home video division, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, said yesterday that they would release films in the next-generation high-definition DVD format being developed