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...Nielsen//NetRatings, online purchases during the first six weeks of the holiday season have spiked 28 percent over previous years. While last year online shoppers spent $13 billion, this year they have dished out $16.7 billion during the same period, with much of the growth driven by music, video, DVD and jewelry sales...
...addition to shopping online, customers are also leaning towards buying gift certificates as opposed to products, according to Jay Follayttar, a manager at City Sports on Brattle Street. Follayttar said that, while products from thermal clothing line Under Armour and the Red Sox DVD “Faith Rewarded” were the two most popular holiday gifts this season, he has noticed a distinct rise in the number of gift certificates sold...
...TIME?s cover story on the film, I had a close-up view of the ?Fahrenheit? phenomenon. In its first weekend, June 23-25, it grossed more ($23.9 million) than any other traditional documentary. It went on to earn $220 million worldwide, with another $100 million expected in DVD sales. But Moore?s intention was not to make a bundle. He wanted ?Fahrenheit? to be the film that defeated Bush...
...Moore?s success was not contagious. When the other agit-docs were released in theaters, only ?Control Room? did any business - about $2.6 million. But theatrical release is just the gravy for agit-docs; DVD is the meat. The Friday before the election, on amazon.com?s best-seller list, ?Fahrenheit? was 9th, and ?Control Room,? ?Outfoxed? and ?Uncovered? were all in the top 100. Long before ?Uncovered? played in movie houses, a shorter version of the film sold more than 100,000 units through moveon.org. The website, a prime galvanizer of anti-Bush fulmination and fund-raising, has helped peddle...
...Jerry Lewis. A package of their zaniest work, When TV Was Funny (Feb. 8), should prove that the French are not fou in their amour de Jer. This year will mark 50 years since the death, at 24, of the movies' all-time tragic man-boy, James Dean. A DVD will package his three starring films--East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant--as well as a new documentary assessing Dean's uncanny staying power. For a recent expression of dramatic power on a single disc, get the DVD of HBO's Emmy-winning Something the Lord Made...