December 1, 2011
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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