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Welcome to another edition of Inside Redbox’s Preview Review, where we recap the movies that will be coming out in theaters this weekend. The goal of this feature is to help you make your weekend movie-watching plans, as well as to note movies that you want to Redbox in a few months when they come out on DVD.
You’ve got a survival thriller, an urban thriller and a comedy coming out in wide release this week. Previews and the official trailers for The Grey, Man on a Ledge and One for the Money are after the break.
It looks like Netflix is back, having finally put its horrific summer of 2011 behind it. The company announced its Q4 results today, which beat shareholder expectations and sent Netflix’s share price up 15 percent in after-hours trading.
Always one to point out ways Hollywood can further attempt to monetize its content, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield has suggested that studios can counter piracy by releasing films to premium VOD the day they hit theaters.
It’s Oscars time, Insiders, and the nominees have been announced! The 84th Academy Awards will be taking place, with all of the usual pomp and pageantry, on February 26. The list of nominees for the major categories is after the jump.
Wow, humanity, you sure watch a lot of online videos, don’t you? Google-owned video site YouTube has announced that it now streams 4 billion videos every day, which is a 25 percent increase in the last eight months.
As Netflix has begun its slow climb back into domestic customers’ good graces, the company is looking overseas to its next big growth spurt. But is Netflix overstretched by its overseas commitments? Several analysts seem to think so.
Here are the movies you will find in your local Redbox this week (1/24/2012):
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Final Destination 5
Paranormal Activity 3
Real Steel
and more…
See the full list after the break. It looks like a great week for Redbox rentals—what will you be watching this week?
Judging by the responses to some of our Freebie Friday questions, our readers are a pretty savvy bunch when it comes to movie trivia. A new promotion from Redbox and SceneIt offering discount promo codes for correctly answering movie trivia questions should be right up your alley, Insiders. Details are after the jump.
The summer that Netflix would like to forget continues to have repercussions. Netflix’s chief marketing officer for 12 years, Leslie Kilgore, has stepped down and will be joining the company’s board as a non-executive director.
