Hope you weren’t hoping to watch any recent Sony movies on Netflix Instant anytime soon. The studio has pulled its movies from Starz’ VoD service, which supplies Netflix Instant with recent releases, as the result of being too popular for everyone’s own good.
Netflix notified subscribers of the removal of Sony’s StarzPlay movies on …
Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand… as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China’s “first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform,” …
This past Sunday I saw X-Men: First Class. It was OK. I don’t want to spoil too much, but during one of the movie’s key stretches – when a certain broody mutant with magnetic powers sobs on the shoulder of his telepathic BFF – a guy sitting in front of me (with his young daughter, no less) picked up his ringing phone and started …
The unlikely winner in the battle between DVDs and Video On Demand? According to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the answer is movie theaters – and it’s all because they remain the most reliable source of income for movie studios.
Talking at this weekend’s “Produced By Conference,” an annual conference put on by the Producer’s Guild of …
YouTube wants you to start using other people’s content – well, within reason. The Google-owned video site launched a new feature yesterday that gives users access to more than 10,000 videos under Creative Commons license for remixing or editing in YouTube’s editor, which will automatically cite and source the original.
The site’s …
The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to stop watching movies at home. Specifically, it wants you to stop watching movies streamed online from Zediva, the “place-shifting private performance” site that allows subscribers to rent physical DVDs that are played in one central location, with the playback streamed to your own …
After taking a beating from Netflix and Redbox, going bankrupt and getting bought by the Dish Network, Blockbuster is trying to lure customers back with lower prices. Now all you’ve got to do is find a Blockbuster.
(More on TIME.com: Dish Network Wins Blockbuster with $320 Million Bid at Auction)
Effective today, thousands of …
It’s like a special singularity just for the internet: Facebook and Netflix are apparently in talks to integrate content and, presumably, take over the world as we know it.
Netflix was just one of multiple online companies, also including music streaming service Spotify, mentioned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg as being in discussions …
Congratulations, Comcast! Your On Demand service has just passed its 20 billionth view since its launch in 2003. For comparison, iTunes has sold around 12 billion songs since it was launched in 2001 – and, even though you’re celebrating with a sweepstakes that will offer winners tickets to movie premieres or walk-on roles in 30Rock (Note …
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker from last year, is apparently pursuing legal action against 24,583 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading the video game-esque war thriller.
In enlisting law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver, the studio’s prosecution marks the largest …
If all goes to plan, next year’s Academy Awards will be more up-to-date and allow voters the chance to see more of the nominated movies before choosing their favorites – or, perhaps, things might just go horribly wrong, and some entirely unexpected choices might walk away with Oscars that they didn’t actually win.
The uncertainty …
Are American audiences quietly realizing that they don’t actually care about 3D? Hidden in the box office returns for this weekend’s Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a clue that, yes, that might actually be happening after all. Maybe.
Deadline is blaming what was said to be an underwhelming – although only in context of …
