Anne Sherber

LOS ANGELES -- As the industry prepares for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) here next week, May 11 to 13, retailers will soon witness media convergence in new game platforms.As a result, some food retailers see...

BURBANK, Calif. -- When "Quest for Camelot," Warner Home Video's entry into the fourth-quarter children's film sweepstakes, makes its home video debut Oct. 13, it will do so with a host of supermarket-friendly cross...

It will be like a multiplex in the aisles when an unprecedented number of direct-to-video movies debut in supermarkets late this year.Retailers will have an opportunity to showcase a cast of highly familiar characters...

NEW YORK -- General- merchandise buyers can expect another onslaught of licensed entertainment and character properties from the major studios for back-to-school.The studios' consumer-products divisions, along with...

TROY, Mich. -- Anchor Bay Entertainment here is signing up chains for the second wave of its Danielle Steel continuity that is available exclusively to supermarkets.Distributors and chains currently marketing Danielle...

As interactive software gradually becomes a mass-market category, more supermarkets are cutting CD-ROM titles into their product mix.The interactive software industry will gather in Atlanta this week for the...

Summer has traditionally been the weakest period for video sell-through. But responding to consumer demand for year-round video sales, the studios are gearing up for the warm weather months with more and better...

Anime, the highly stylized animation genre from Japan, may soon leap into the mainstream with family-oriented sell-through product well-suited to supermarket video departments.Until very recently, anime was a cult...