Media Distribution

LOS ANGELES - Redbox, the leading $1-per-night DVD rental kiosk operator, said Thursday it agreed to delay renting movies from 20th Century Fox and Universal until 28 days after discs go on sale.

NEW YORK - When the British director Mat Whitecross was growing up in Oxford, only so many films would make it to his local cinema.

LOS ANGELES - In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living.

PARK CITY, Utah - The prestige of directors who make it into the Sundance Film Festival is often undermined by one simple question: Where can their movies be seen in the real world? "Nowhere" often is the answer, unless fans make the journey to snowy Utah during Sundance or happen to live near another festival or art house that might play the films eventually.

LONDON - Strong growth in digital music sales in 2009 led by Lady Gaga failed to stop the continuing slump in the international recorded music industry, and pirates remain a major problem, an industry body said Thursday.