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#Block buster movie#
Rising competition from on-demand movie-streaming services like Netflix and Hulu forced Blockbuster to declare bankruptcy in 2010.ĭish acquired the company's assets at auction, and attempted to launch a streaming Netflix competitor dubbed Blockbuster Movie Pass, which failed to gain traction. In 2007, when Netflix launched, Blockbuster had a revenue of $5 billion, but as the Great Recession loomed and stores like Target and Walmart started selling increasingly cheap DVDs, the business started to suffer.īy the beginning of 2009 it was nearly $780million in debt. In November, Dish-owned Blockbuster LLC filed a new trademark application for the logo - though it appears to be in connection with the short-lived Netflix comedy seriesĪt its peak in 2004, Blockbuster had 9,000 iconic yellow-and-blue themed movie rental stores worldwide. In January 2022, fans went wild after Blockbuster filed a trademark application seeking to use the brand for a cryptocurrency and NFT marketplace.Ĭrypto enthusiasts took it as proof that Blockbuster planned to issue its own digital currency and dive into the NFT market - but no such moves have materialized, and it's possible the trademark was some kind of esoteric corporate prank. It is not the first time that rumors of a Blockbuster comeback have swirled around the iconic brand. Representatives for Dish and Netflix did not immediately respond to inquiries from outside of regular business hours on Thursday.
#Block buster series#
The half-hour comedy series launched on November 3 and failed to reach Netflix’s weekly Top 10 during its run, according to Deadline. It's not clear whether the Blockbuster website was revived in some kind of marketing tie-in with the Netflix show - although the show was cancelled in December after a single 10-episode season. A single, privately owned Blockbuster store (above) still operates in Bend, Oregon, but the parent company went defunct a decade ago
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