- ClickStar Broadband Service Pacts With Three Studios
Broadband movie outlet ClickStar announced home video distribution partnerships with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group in conjunction with its launch this week.
- MGM: Trials film downloads.
MGM Home Entertainment is offering movie downloads in a limited, 30-day pilot with Internet film distribution service Cinema Now, hoping to find out how consumers warm up to the idea of getting feature films on the Net for a fee. Two MGM titles - not exactly box-office blockbusters - out ......
- Intertainer creates new platform for independent
filmakers.
TV MEETS THE WEB-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ In an attempt to offer a viable alternative to the traditional film distribution model, Intertainer, a provider of internet-based video-on-demand services, has launched Film Marketplace, a channel for independent filmmakers to directly reach entertainment enthusiasts and earn money. It is ......
- Fox to break from Disney VOD
venture.
TV MEETS THE WEB-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ US-based Fox Entertainment is reportedly withdrawing its support from Movies.com, a joint video-on-demand venture with Walt Disney. Both companies are set to follow ?alternative strategies? to distribute their films over the internet and cable television (CATV), Reuters reported. The move ......
- Fox to break from Disney VOD
venture.
EUROPEMEDIA-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ US-based Fox Entertainment is reportedly withdrawing its support from Movies.com, a joint video-on-demand venture with Walt Disney. Both companies are set to follow "alternative strategies" to distribute their films over the internet and cable television (CATV), Reuters reported. The move by Fox further ......
- Studio-Owned Movielink Starts Uploading Its Fare
Movielink — the Web-based movie download service owned by five major Hollywood studios — made its official debut last week. At launch, the service offered 200 titles from partners Paramount Pictures Corp., Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. at prices ranging from $1.99 to $4.99. Consumers ......
- Comcast Ushers in New VOD Era
How high are the stakes for the cable industry's video-on-demand rollout? Pretty high. Faced with subscriber-growth rates that are dwindling — if not retreating —in the face of direct-broadcast satellite, VOD is one cable's strongest plays to blunt DBS churn. Now the nation's largest MSO, Comcast Corp., is upping the ......