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Award-Nominated Movies at Redbox DVD Kiosks

Redbox Gives Consumers the Chance to Win a Year’s Worth of Free Rentals through ‘Spotlight Awards’ Contest

For Immediate Release: March 1, 2010

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. –With the Academy Awards® just around the corner, movie lovers are getting ready for the big event and already deciding on their favorites in categories including Best Movie, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Animated Film.  The country’s most popular DVD rental kiosk, redbox, now has many of the award-nominated movies available to rent prior to the awards ceremony on March 7 at its more than 20,000 locations nationwide.  To add to the excitement, consumers can also cast their votes online for their winning picks for the chance to win prizes with the redbox® Spotlight Awards contest.

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Redbox Surpasses One Million iPhone^® App Downloads

Free iPhone Application Delivers Added Convenience for Movie Lovers On-the-Go

For Immediate Release: February 23, 2010

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – Redbox, the fully automated DVD rental kiosk featuring new release DVDs, this week surpassed one million iPhone application downloads. The milestone occurred less than four months after the free iPhone app from redbox launched on the iPhone App Store in November 2009. The iPhone app from redbox gives iPhone users the power to find the nearest location, search for a title, and reserve a movie at any kiosk nationwide from the convenience of their iPhone.

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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Redbox Announce a Multi-year Distribution Agreement

Companies Agree to 28-Day Window for
DVD and Blu-ray Titles

BURBANK, Calif. And OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill, February 16, 2010 – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and redbox today announced a new multi-year distribution agreement that will make Warner Bros. new release DVD and Blu-ray titles available to redbox customers after a 28-day window. The agreement also marks the end of the lawsuit that redbox filed against Warner Home Video in August 2009.

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day on a Budget with Redbox

Redbox Valentine’s Day National Survey Reveals Comedies Make the Best Date Movies

For Immediate Release: January 25, 2010

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – Don’t break the bank this Valentine’s Day. Instead, visit a shiny, redbox DVD rental kiosk at your local mass, drug or convenience store, and treat your sweetheart to a date-night-in. Redbox rents the latest new release DVDs for an affordable price. According to a recent redbox Valentine’s Day survey, comedies (51 percent) make the best date movie, followed by romances (29 percent) and thrillers (13 percent). So visit redbox and find the perfect film to watch with your Valentine.

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Redbox Rents Record-Breaking Two Million DVDs on New Year’s Eve

Americans Ring in the New Year with a Movie at Home

For Immediate Release: January 1, 2010

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – Redbox, the fully-automated DVD rental provider located at the nation’s leading grocery, mass, drug and convenience stores, rented more than two million DVDs on New Year’s Eve surpassing the Company’s previous one day rental record by more than one-hundred-seventy-thousand rentals. “District 9,” “G-Force,” “Paranormal Activity” and “Julie & Julia” were among the night’s top rentals. With more than 19,000 locations nationwide, consumers have embraced the convenience, fun and value of redbox.

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Redbox Announces Top DVD Rentals of 2009 Including Most-Rented Bromance, Chick Flick and Family Films

More than 350 Million Movies Rented from redbox in 2009

For Immediate Release: December 28, 2009

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – Redbox, the fully-automated DVD rental provider located at the nation’s leading grocery, mass, drug and convenience stores, announces the top DVD rentals of 2009. The country’s leading DVD rental kiosk operator, redbox, rented more than 350 million DVDs this year. “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” topped the list of the most-rented movies logging more than 4.5 million redbox rentals.

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Movies Join Trees and Stockings as Part of the Holiday Tradition

“Redbox Holiday Favorites” National Survey Reveals 92 Percent of Respondents Will Celebrate the Holidays with a Movie

For Immediate Release: November 30, 2009

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – According to a national survey, holiday movies are as quintessential to holiday celebrations as the Christmas tree itself. Redbox, the fully automated DVD rental kiosk featuring new release DVDs, recently surveyed redbox customers nationwide and found 92 percent plan to celebrate the season with a movie. In fact, more people plan to watch a movie than exchange gifts (84 percent), decorate a tree (82 percent) or hang stockings (63 percent). George Bailey (“It’s a Wonderful Life”) and Ralphie (“A Christmas Story”) are regularly invited to holiday celebrations. The “redbox Holiday Favorites” survey revealed the following holiday movie trivia:

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