Amazon’s LoveFilm is continuing its film and TV content rights war with U.S. rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television for the right to stream titles including The Social Network and Salt.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) definitely didn’t break out Kindle Fire pre-order numbers in the investor call following today’s earnings report, but CFO Tom Szkutak followed up on CEO Jeff Bezos’s earlier statement that “based on what we’re seeing with Kindle Fire pre-orders, we’re increasing capacity and building millions more than we’d…

Sky Movies’ stranglehold on UK subscription on-demand rights for movies may not be broken by competition authorities until 2014, according to Enders Analysis.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) paid less than some recent reports suggested for the rest of Lovefilm. The £200 ($318.51) million quoted by many was actually the total company valuation. Amazon already held about 40 percent since 2008. What it bought this month was the remaining 60 percent - for, we understand,…

Lovefilm eschewed a possible IPO option because Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) gives it a global-scale parent with resources enough to land the rights necessary to profit from the coming online movie explosion, says one of the VCs who has exited in the deal (see earlier story).

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally confirmed it’s buying the 58 percent of Lovefilm it doesn’t already own - its bid to become a major European online movie subscription business. There’s no price disclosed, but someone around the deal had been pumping The Sunday Times with a £200 ($320.31) million price…

Reality check: The prospect of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Lovefilm becoming online-first subscription businesses looks a long way off - they have online rights for just a tenth of their DVD catalogue…

With M&A murmurs still bubbling and the great IPTV opportunity beckoning, DVD and online movie service Lovefilm is one of the more interesting digital operators out there. So how is the company faring? Let’s look at the fundamentals for the “European Netflix”...

An interesting trial balloon was floated by The Sunday Times which, perhaps thanks to that title’s new reader fees or perhaps because the story is weak and unattributed, received little play on Monday: “(Amazon) is thought to have pitched a bid that values Lovefilm at close to £200 million —…

LoveFilm, which is often regarded as the “Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) of the Europe,” has struck a major deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that gives its streaming rental service access to hundreds of classic movies and new home video releases. The deal comes as LoveFilm is trying to be seen as more…

By Steve Busfield: The Guardian Media Group group director of digital strategy and development, Simon Waldman, is to join LoveFilm. Waldman is to become group product director for the DVD rental subscription service, which is moving into digital distribution. Waldman, who was launch editor of Guardian Unlimited in 1999, has…

Lloyds TSB’s corporate markets division is giving £10.5 million in debt funding to European DVD and games rental service Lovefilm, designed to repay existing debt and invest in VOD technology. Financed by Arts Alliance Media, Lovefilm merged with Video Island in 2006 to create one of Europe’s largest online DVD…

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared Lovefilm‘s acquisition of Amazon’s DVD rental business despite significant earlier competition concerns. The deal, under which Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is handing over its UK and German DVD mail order business after taking a majority stake in LoveFilm, would give the pair over…

Lovefilm, the UK online DVD rental service which recently announced buying Amazon.com’s (NSDQ: AMZN) competing UK service, is of course bullish on its prospects. It had about 450K subscribers, which has now doubled. Some other tentative numbers from this Times UK story: Amazon.com’s stake in Lovefilm is believed about 30…