Weintraub Entertainment Group has reached agreement with...

Weintraub Entertainment Group has reached agreement with Showtime/the Movie Channel, under which Showtime will have exclusive pay television rights in the United States for 20 coming motion pictures from Weintraub . . . Los Angeles-based Today Home Entertainment Inc. confirmed reports that it is in negotiation with Heritage Entertainment Inc. for, the possible acquisition of Heritage’s International Film Exchange Ltd. . . . J. C. Penney Co., New York, increased its regular quarterly common stock dividend 35% to 50 cents a share from 37 cents, payable, May 1, to shareholders of record April 11 . . . The Chicago Board of Trade has suspended trading in its 5-month-old CBOT Corporate Bond Index futures contract because of a lack of sustained volume.