Wayne Huizenga, better known for having built (and gotten very rich from) Waste Management and Blockbuster Video.
The situation reminds me of the broken merger in 2004 and 2005 between Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video.
He figured rebranded and redecorated lots would follow the success of his Blockbuster video chain and become the category killer of car retailing.
This character (which goes by the name of Blockbuster Video) has been around for some time, but its story grew tiresome years ago.
The pair, who had been drinking, agreed to meet at a Blockbuster video store, where he and Mr Hyatt would pick her up.
Ms Manning then phoned Mr White who agreed to meet her at a Blockbuster video store, where he and Mr Hyatt would pick her up.
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Of the two biggest chains, one (Movie Gallery) went out of business, and the other (Blockbuster Video, now owned by Dish Network) is struggling to survive.
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The Chicago-born entrepreneur is probably best known as the former owner of Blockbuster Video and current part-owner of the Miami Dolphins, but garbage made him rich.
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"It is clear to see that we are a nation of movie lovers and enjoy the old classics as much as the modern chart toppers", said Blockbuster Video executive Steve Foulser.
Blockbuster, a video-rental store, failed in Germany, and digital streaming has not caught on.
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September's distressed issuers included Beazer Homes USA, which was deeply embroiled in the housing bubble, and Blockbuster, a video-rental firm.
Targeting niches was one strategy that helped small proprietors like Kim survive in a world increasingly dominated by big chains like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery.
While Dish has closed several hundred retail locations, it has yet to turn Blockbuster into a streaming video giant.
Users were surprised when they rented a video at Blockbuster, for example, and then had it show up on their Facebook profile.
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In Chicago, more than 200 people stood in line outside Blockbuster, waiting for the video to go on sale.
When a game like Uncharted feels as slick as a summer blockbuster, it seems like Video Games can finally stand toe-to-toe with Hollywood.
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Our rationale for trying to buy Hollywood Video was for Blockbuster to orchestrate an orderly downsizing of the store based rental business while we developed our online business.
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Rented a movie from a stand-alone video store like Blockbuster?
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But buried at the end was a provision which would have changed the first-sale doctrine so Americans would not be permitted to rent movies from video stores like Blockbuster without the permission of movie studios, who said they would grant such permission only at greatly inflated prices.
Netflix stole the market from Blockbuster by shifting the paradigm to video by mail and then innovated again by creating competition to its own model through electronic distribution.
The biggest disappointment: Blockbuster, the still-suffering video chain, off 63%.
It's because in the old days, which was three or four years ago, not a thousand years ago, the video stores, namely Blockbuster, bought their videos depending on how many people came on an opening weekend.
Only time will tell whether bookstores will go the way of Blockbuster ( BBI), Hollywood Video, et al, which have been forced to shrink or close bricks and mortar stores in the face of new technology and distribution.
The rule protects video-rental outfits like Blockbuster and Netflix as well as public libraries.
NOOK's newly announced content agreements will bring thousands of movies and TV shows for all ages and interests to the NOOK Video catalog, including the blockbuster films Snow White and the Huntsmen, Battleship, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days and many more.
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Apologizing to no one, Duke Nukem Forever is the high-octane video game equivalent of a Hollywood summer blockbuster.
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As smaller video stores collapsed over the years, Blockbuster had remained a stalwart presence in many mini malls.
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