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  1. Hollywood Entertainment Corp. Hollywood Entertainment Corp., [1] more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was an American video rental store chain. Founded in 1988, the chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was acquired by Movie Gallery in 2005. [2] It ceased operations in 2010, when Movie Gallery declared Chapter ...

  2. Wattles took his time expanding over the next few years, as the video rental and sales industry took off reaching $9.8 billion in revenues by 1990. By year-end 1991 with a handful of stores, Hollywood Entertainment Corp. generated $5.1 million, with income of $281,000. The following year, Wattles had a total of 15 operational stores in the ...

  3. Hollywood Entertainment Corp., more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was an American video rental store chain. Founded in 1988, the chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was acquired by Movie Gallery in 2005. It ceased operations in 2010, when Movie Gallery declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

  4. Hollywood Entertainment Corp. (Nasdaq: HLYW), more commonly known as Hollywood Video, was a home video and video game rental shop company started in 1988. The chain was the largest direct competitor to Blockbuster Video until it was purchased by Movie Gallery in 2005. Hollywood Video ceased operations in May 2010, when Movie Gallery, its parent company, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Its last ...

  5. Located in the heart of Hollywood, Red Studios has remained the ideal location for filmmakers and producers dating back from the silent film era in the 1920s to the award-winning pictures of today. Metro Pictures: 1915 – 1925. In 1915 Metro sent a group of filmmakers to Hollywood to establish a West Coast studio, Metro Studios.

  6. The current "Big Five" majors (Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, and Sony) all originate from film studios that were active during Hollywood's "Golden Age." Four of these were among that original era's "Eight Majors," being that era's original "Big Five" plus its "Little Three," collectively the eight film studios that controlled as much as 96% of the market during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  8. Dec 23, 1998 · Bill Bingham, who owns two independent video stores in rural Louisiana, is feeling the crunch. One of his stores, across the street from Blockbuster, is losing $4,000 to $6,000 a month.

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