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- Movie Gallery Incorporated, the parent company of Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video and Game Crazy stores, will close all its U.S.-based locations, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
www.chronline.com/stories/movie-gallery-hollywood-video-to-close-all-locations,177843
In 2005 Movie Gallery bought Hollywood Video, gaining Hollywood's office space in Oregon. [25] Movie Gallery operated its Oregon office out of the space, [28] and Hollywood Video, now a subsidiary of Movie Gallery, maintained its headquarters in Wilsonville. [29]
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 7 bankruptcy. [3]
Joe Malugen, co-founder of recently shuttered Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video, is now president and CEO of Movie>Q, an automated rental/retail chain for DVD/Blu-ray Disc movies.
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Family Video traces its company historyback to 1946, when Clarence Hoogland founded the distribution business Midstates Appliance & Supply Company, according to the company. A little more than three decades later, when Clarence’s son Charlie was running the company, it became a distributor for the first supplier of videocassettes for Hollywood stud...
Before the chain temporarily shuttered in March along with scores of other retailers, Family Video ironically had one of its best weekends in years. “The first week it was like, ‘Well, okay, we’re going to be quarantined, it might be kind of fun. Let’s pick up three or four movies and popcorn,’” Dye said. After the stores closed, many of the chains...
To some extent, Family Video is tapping into nostalgia for the era when video stores were the dominant channel for at-home viewing. That era had a meteoric rise and fall. An industry, sparked by hobbyists and then led by mom and pop stores at first, was built out of pretty much nothing over the course of a few years, as Josh Greenberg chronicled in...
Family Video faces a demographic challenge that could ultimately pose its biggest existential test. Its average customer is well over 40, Dye said. For younger customers, “without like a real ambassador, like their parents or a relative or even a friend that is older, to say, ‘Let’s go to a store’ — it just probably doesn’t cross your mind,” Dye sa...
- Ben Unglesbee
While Blockbuster may be the more iconic chain, where I grew up, the only video rental chain in the area was Hollywood Video. My memories include renting Son of the Mask (not a good choice looking back), and my dad renting out the old Planet of the Apes movies to show me and brother.
May 3, 2010 · Movie Gallery owns the Game Crazy and Hollywood Video brands. It was not immediately apparent if the company would also close the over 180 stores it operates in Canada. More than 15,000...
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