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Picking the Meat from John Carter’s Bones

Or how Redbox might foil Disney’s attempt to salvage a flop
- By Leslie Shapiro
- Posted July 3, 2012
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By any measure, Disney’s enjoyable Mars epic John Carter was a fiscal fiasco, netting only $72 million in the US and $282.4 million total worldwide, barely clearing its $250 million price tag. Ouch.

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Verizon and Redbox: Who Cares?

The notion of a high-profile Netflix competitor leaves our scribe cold
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted February 24, 2012
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Verizon and Redbox recently announced a partnership to launch a streaming/physical disc service. Yawn.
But I’ve been getting a lot of emails and questions about it recently, so maybe there’s something to it. Could it really be a contender? Could it really give Netflix serious competition?
I blew the suspense with the title, didn’t I? My bad.

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Netflix: Dumb as a Rock?

The online video giant splits in two, dives for the ground. What if they're smarter than we think?
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted September 20, 2011
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Netflix announced this week that they were splitting their business, DVD/BD rentals on one side, streaming on the other.
By all accounts, this seems like a perfectly crafted way to auger the company into the ground. Everyone hates it, customers are fleeing, there's no way it can work.
But. . . what if that's the point?

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VUDU's iPad Workaround

Wal-Mart's streaming service comes to iOS — though not through the App Store
- By Michael Berk
- Posted August 10, 2011
VUDU debuts on the iPad today, though not quite in the way you'd expect. You won't find a VUDU app in the App Store — and for good reason.

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