For Home Entertainment Releases, a Rare Bright Spot.

HOLLYWOOD (Los Angeles, Calif.); LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's troubled home entertainment business is moving in an unaccustomed direction: Up. On Monday, the Digital Entertainment Group, which monitors consumer spending for home entertainment in the United States, is expected to report a 5 percent increase in industrywide revenue for the third quarter, to roughly $3.9 billion from about $3.7 billion a year earlier. It is the first quarterly uptick since the beginning of 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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