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OCT. 19 | Online downloading for videogame consoles is exploding in popularity, with revenue tripling to $583 million in 2007 from $133 million last year, according to research firm IDC.

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Just Announced E-Newsletter

Welcome to the Video Business Just Announced enewsletter, featuring notable title listings coming soon to stores. For more new releases, go to www.videobusiness.com/newreleases.

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Executives discuss initiatives at Green Media Summit

MARCH 21 | GREEN REPORT: When executives come together for the industry’s first Green Media Summit in Los Angeles next week, the talk won’t be as much about what they’ve done to green their operations as to why increased environmental responsibility is best for their business.

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Bloody Mary release details Video Business

While investigating the disappearance of her younger sister, successful author Natalie Fitzgerald (Kim Tyler) and her ex-boyfriend Bobby (Matt Borlenghi), a police detective, find themselves in the middle of a murder spree at a psychiatric hospital with a sinister history.

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Sony develops DVD premieres with notable names

FEB. 15 | Sony has quietly developed a notable business bringing out DVD premiere action titles featuring stars that graced theatrical marquees in the late ’80s and ’90s, including Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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Planet Brooklyn release details Video Business

Story Line: An aspiring musician (Ishmael Butler) falls for a graffiti artist (Anita Kopacz) on the streets of Brooklyn. In the meantime, his roommate (Bonz Malone) gambles away all his savings and pines to see his young daughter (Dedra McCloud Ware).

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Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation

FOX Street: March 11 Prebook: Feb. 13 > DVD premiere sequel to the raucous 1984 Tom Hanks comedy. It has been 24 years since the original Tom Hanks-starring Bachelor Party hit theaters, but apparently Fox felt the name-recognition value of that movie was strong enough to sell this unrelated T&A

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Urban Spotlight Dvd-Zine: Us West Coast World Prem release details Video Business

Also includes special segments like Concert Series Highlights, The Listening Party, G-Unit West, and much much more.

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Fox extends Joy Ride with DVD premiere sequel

NOV. 20 | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is extending Joy Ride into a made-for-DVD sequel for release in fall 2008.

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Year End 2005 Top DVD Premiere Titles - Video Business

Rank Title (Label/Distributor) Release Revenue ($ in mils.) 1 Family Guy Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (Fox) Sept. 27 $78.2 2 Mulan II (BV) Feb. 1 61.6 3 Tarzan II (BV) June 14 47.1 4 Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (BV) Aug. 30 43.7 5 Kronk’s New Groove (BV) Dec. 13 24.

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