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NBCUniversal-owned Fandango, which has evolved from a movie ticketing service to a more comprehensive entertainment brand, is merging its streaming services Vudu and FandangoNow. The new Vudu-branded offering will feature 200,000 new releases and library titles. It will also become Roku’s official film and TV store in…

Fox Corp said Monday that it has completed the acquisition of Tubi, announced March 17 for $440 million. The news comes the same day Comcast’s NBCUniversal announced the acquisition of streaming platform Vudu from Walmart by its Fandango movie ticketing division. Fox Corp. paid for Tubi with cash it raised from the…

Vudu, the digital movie and TV unit of Walmart, is being acquired by NBCUniversal’s Fandango division. Founded in 2004 and acquired by Walmart in 2010 for $100 million, Vudu offers about 10,000 movie and TV titles through a free streaming service. It also offers some 150,000 titles for rent or purchase, including new…

Comcast is in talks to acquire Walmart's Vudu, the retail behemoth's advertising and transactional video-on-demand service, according to a person familiar with the situation. It’s the latest twist in the hot and getting hotter streaming wars, and comes as the media and entertainment giant, parent of NBCUniversal…

“How would you describe our family?” the wife asks. “Controlled chaos,” the husband replies without missing a beat. It’s been more than 35 years since Michael Keaton played an unprepared stay-at-home dad opposite Teri Garr’s newly employed mother in the John Hughes-penned Mr. Mom. Now here’s the first trailer for the…

In a return to television, Avengers: Endgame‘s Evangeline Lilly is set to star in and executive produce Albedo, an eight-episode mystery drama series from Entertainment One, Rampage helmer Brad Peyton and Bell Media in Canada. Peyton is set to direct and executive produce with Jeff Fierson the straight-to-series…

The 1983 comedy Mr. Mom starring Michael Keaton is set to get the digital series treatment. MGM is partnering with Walmart’s streaming service Vudu to bring the classic into 2018. Vudu revealed the new Mr. Mom iteration Wednesday during NewFronts West. The news comes after it was announced that Vudu and MGM would be…

The Disney Movies Anywhere app will be available on Walmart’s VUDU online-video service beginning Tuesday, the biggest news out of Disney’s mobile showcase Friday morning outlining initiatives from its brands. Also coming: stand-alone video apps for its biggest YouTube stars such as PewDiePie, a revamped ESPN.com…

An interesting announcement today from Walmart’s Vudu, the digital movie and TV rental service that’s similar to Apple’s iTunes. It has begun to let customers offer access to the UltraViolet-enabled content in their libraries to as many as five people. Invitees in the “Share My Movies by Vudu” initiative have to…

The goal is to create an industry standard to provide consumers who buy digital copies of movies additional features, much like they experience when they buy DVD and Blu-ray discs. “We have seen in all of our research and studies with consumers that they’d like to see a better price-value relationship around digital…

DreamWorks Animation titles were added to Walmart’s disc-to-digital Vudu service that launched today at more than 3,500 stores. Vudu bridges the hard goods DVD/Blu-Ray business with the newer digital download efforts. Walmart customers can now get digital copies of movies they’ve purchased on disc from Paramount Home…

UltraViolet’s had a rocky start. Consumers have struggled to figure out what it is and how it works — and the studios backing the industry initiative have hungered to have a big retailer help walk people through the process. That’s what makes the new alliance with WalMart interesting. Starting on April 16 consumers…