{"id":1904728,"date":"2023-03-25T02:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-predict-blockbuster-comeback-as-webpage-displays-cryptic-message-rewinding-your-movie\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:12:09","slug":"fans-predict-blockbuster-comeback-as-webpage-displays-cryptic-message-rewinding-your-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fans-predict-blockbuster-comeback-as-webpage-displays-cryptic-message-rewinding-your-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Predict Blockbuster Comeback As Webpage Displays Cryptic Message: \u2018Rewinding Your Movie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffans-predict-blockbuster-comeback-as-webpage-displays-cryptic-message-rewinding-your-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><span>This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Blockbuster Video<\/a>&#8216;s website was reactivated, giving cheerful fans a thrill. This led social media users to believe that the movie rental business was staged to return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We are currently working on rewinding your show, according to a mysterious statement posted on Blockbuster.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, the genuine market, has been active and posting jokes the entire time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNew business idea: We\u2019re going to come back as a bank and use VHS and DVDs as currency. Time to go visit your mom,\u201d the company <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockbuster\/status\/1636021300966588417\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> on March 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur 2023 New Year\u2019s resolution was to reopen Blockbuster but it seemed like a lot of work so we quit. Should we start going to the gym instead?\u201d the account <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockbuster\/status\/1617677575446495233?s=20\"><span>joked<\/span><\/a><span> in January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>David Cook founded Blockbuster as a camera and video game rental program in 1985. Blockbuster Video boasted more than 9, 000 retail stores at the peak of the party status in 2004, and it employed more over 84, 000 people. Most Americans started going to Blockbuster on the weekends to choose a movie to watch at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Blockbuster&#8217;s demise was caused by evolving technologies, particularly Netflix DVDs delivered by mail and later streaming services. The business declared failure in 2010 and shut down the majority of its sites by 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One brand location is still available right now in Bend, Oregon, and it&#8217;s still a well-liked tourist destination. Netflix&#8217;s&#8221; The Last Blockbuster&#8221; in debuted in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-5960\">TO GET THE DAILYWIRE + APP, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Some supporters were ecstatic about the prospect of Blockbuster making a comeback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c@blockbuster are you coming back? I promise to break up with @netflix if you do! I\u2019m using my mom\u2019s password anyway,\u201d one person <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/23\/blockbuster-fans-hope-for-a-comeback-after-website-goes-live\/\"><span>shared<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Blockbuster site is still operational. Another fan concurred,&#8221; I may cry if they make a comeback in ANY way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome of my favorite childhood memories were going to Blockbuster on a Friday night,\u201d a third person <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianG1122\/status\/1636284862695981056\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>People had ideas for modernizing the industry and questioned how a brick-and-mortar movie rental store may function in the modern world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One fan suggested that they should launch a streaming service and charge less than[ Sic ] Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The business made an effort to modify its film rental procedure to accommodate shifting taste. Blockbuster began mailing prospects DVD rentals in the later years of Netflix, but it was hesitant to switch to streaming like Netflix did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Blockbuster brand was sold to satellite TV company Dish in 2011 for $320 million, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/news\/blockbuster-to-close-all-remaining-u-s-stores-1200802109\/\"><span>Variety<\/span><\/a><span>. They owned the licensing rights and created a standalone app called Blockbuster On Demand. The app is not currently available.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgic fans got a thrill this week when they noticed Blockbuster Video\u00a0reactivated its website, leading social media users to speculate that the movie rental company was staging a comeback. Blockbuster.com currently has a cryptic message posted that says, \u201cWe are working on rewinding your movie.\u201d The official business Twitter has been active all along and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1904729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[22751,12660,3754,7791,14611,5823,5776,4868,12851],"class_list":["post-1904728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-rewinding","tag-blockbuster","tag-comeback","tag-cryptic","tag-displays","tag-fans","tag-message","tag-movie","tag-predict"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}