Add Sumner Redstone’s exhibitor company National Amusements to the list of chains who won’t show Universal’s upcoming caper comedy Tower Heist. The 950-screen circuit said today that it won’t screen the Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy movie if the the studio moves ahead with plans to test a shortened video-on-demand window that will make it available three weeks after it premieres in theaters for $59.99. The film opens November 4. Cinemark has been the lone major chain to say it won’t screen the film if the VOD test — set for two markets, Atlanta and Portland, Ore. — goes forward, arguing that any shortening of release windows will impact its business. Earlier this week, regional chains Regency Theatres, Galaxy Theatres and Emagine Theatres also said they wouldn’t play the film. The other national chains, AMC and Regal, and industry group NATO have not weighed in, and Universal has been declining comment so ...more.

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“We will prove that it’s not who makes the tablet first…but who makes it better,” he said in Berlin.

NEW YORK – Content is king, including when you compete with Apple for a share of the tablet market.

That was the message from Sony Corp. chairman and CEO Howard Stringer as he talked up his company’s tablets and signaled that his company will take on Apple’s iPad by offering music and movies.

“Yes, yes, Apple makes an iPad, but does it make a movie?” Stringer said in a presentation at Berlin’s annual consumer electronics fair, Bloomberg News reported. “We will prove that it’s not who makes the tablet first…but who makes it better.”

Bloomberg quoted Alexander Peterc, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, as saying: “The tablet has to be significantly better than the ...more.

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