Might or not it’s true?
Blockbuster is usually a reminiscence for the reason that firm shuttered all its areas — besides one in Bend, Oregon. However eagle-eyed followers of the the famed video rental chain of the 90s observed one thing change on the corporate’s official web site and rapidly took to social media to debate their findings.
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Upon visiting Blockbuster.com, a display screen with the corporate’s brand seems with the phrase, “We’re engaged on rewinding your film.”
Blockbuster’s official web site homepage
Although the chain did not clarify why it selected to reactivate its web site (which had been dormant earlier than) with the cryptic message, Blockbuster joked about making a comeback and rebranding as a financial institution on March 15.
New enterprise thought: We’ll come again as a financial institution and use VHS and DVDs as forex. Time to go go to your mother.
— Blockbuster (@blockbuster) March 15, 2023
Many took to social media to specific that there is perhaps a cause to consider one thing large is within the works for the video rental chain.
Are we turning again time?#Blockbuster #vhs
https://t.co/zXqKjpjBml— 8bitblood (@8BitBlood) March 23, 2023
Whaaaaat is going on?! ls this the return of @blockbuster?! Oh how we have missed you! pic.twitter.com/uzwG1UH3Xn
— Anyone (@HauntinglyHere) March 19, 2023
I managed a @blockbuster for years. Now that https://t.co/6nBFEjbouW has gone stay once more, in the event that they’re opening shops I’ll have to use.
— White Satan (@geauxbluse) March 23, 2023
Might this be true? Is @blockbuster coming again? Except it is simply one other streaming service, Fridays evenings shall be lit. One thing about going to a brick and mortar on a weekend night looking their movie choice. pic.twitter.com/ZiV9BbZjXQ
— Oscar (@HydeTheCatalyst) March 21, 2023
One Twitter person even requested the chain if it deliberate to return again as a “nimble retail franchise” to which the chain sadly replied “No,” although the chain has been replying to 1000’s of Tweets asking about what was happening with varied unrelated film gifs.
At its peak, Blockbuster operated over 9,000 shops and generated greater than $5.9 billion in income. The final remaining shops shuttered in 2014 — albeit one.
In 2020, Netflix premiered a documentary concerning the Bend, Oregon location aptly named “The Final Blockbuster,” which make clear the herds of vacationers that go to the shop to take a wall down reminiscence lane annually.
Final month, the final remaining retailer ran an commercial throughout the Tremendous Bowl that rapidly went viral, and in accordance with retailer supervisor Sandi Harding, helped increase gross sales by 200%.