For most, defunct video chain Blockbuster is little more than a nostalgic memory of pre-streaming times since the company shuttered all bar one of its locations. But fans of the famed video rental ...

In a new ad created by advertising agency Atlantic New York and posted to the store’s YouTube channel, Blockbuster’s last location plays on the iconic branding of the beloved chain to land the ...

Netflix and Blockbuster are still the only major services that offer discs by mail and online streaming. How do they compare? And what about competitors like Vudu, iTunes, and Hulu Plus? John Falcone ...

The Blockbuster brand has had a weird life. And it's only gotten weirder with time. The brand might not have existed at all but for a disagreement about a color scheme. David Cook, an oil industry ...

Updates to the Blockbuster Video website have fueled speculation among the movie-rental chain’s fans about a potential comeback. According to the Internet Archive, the website was initially updated in ...

Blockbuster is struggling. The Dallas-based rental chain owes close to $1 billion, and has repeatedly warned it might face liquidation if it can’t find new debt financing. Shares are now trading at 11 ...

In retrospect, it seems obvious that the practice of driving to a store to rent a movie to watch at home was preordained to extinction. The surprise, and the business tragedy, is this: the company ...

Netflix's new comedy show Blockbuster is set in the video rental chain's last surviving store and follows it employees as they try to soldier on even as the franchise goes bust. The show, helmed by ...

When Blockbuster, the huge video-rental chain, set up a mail-delivery service in the summer of 2004, rival Netflix watched its stock price tumble. Netflix had invented the business in the late '90s, ...

Randall Park and Melissa Fumero lead a workplace comedy set in the very last location of the video rental chain, from 'Superstore' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' writer Vanessa Ramos. By Angie Han ...

Though “Blockbuster” ostensibly takes place in a Michigan strip mall, it immediately feels stuck in an uncanny valley of Netflix’s strategic making. It’s not the fault of the show itself — a workplace ...