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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — The Grammy-nominated band from western Wisconsin, Bon Iver (BOHN’-ee vehr), will appear in a fitness DVD. Personal trainer Jeff Rogers met singer, songwriter and frontman Justin Vernon several years ago while playing basketball at an Eau Claire YMCA.
The standard 35 mm film we’re all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film “Avatar” is to blame for the shift, according to a new report.
LOS ANGELES — A casting assistant who helped choose child actors for some kid-friendly movies is a convicted child molester, according to a newspaper report. Jason James Murphy, 35, has worked with children in Hollywood for a decade by using the name Jason James, according to The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/uwCFHp). Read full article > >
LOS ANGELES — Americans’ spending on home videos has finally emerged from the recession — helped by more purchases of higher-priced Blu-ray discs and greater outlays on cut-rate rentals from Netflix and Redbox. For the three months through September, home movie spending rose nearly 5 percent from a year earlier to $3.9 billion, the first increase since early 2008, according to industry …
SAN FRANCISCO — Redbox’s DVD rental kiosks are attracting movie lovers fed up with Netflix’s video subscription service. But now Redbox’s owner, Coinstar Inc., is risking its own customer backlash by raising its prices, the same move that triggered Netflix’s recent loss of 800,000 U.S