After more than 30 years of buying and renting movies on tapes and discs, this year marks the tipping point as US consumers now are making a historic switch to Internet-based consumption.
The move to leverage around movies has been largely a marketing task to date. There are apps that will remind you when a movie you wanted to see is released, one that sound-scans trailers you like and pushes it out on Twitter and Facebook, one that ranks the potential of a movie?s first weekend box …
suraj.sun tips an article at AnandTech about a Blu-ray DRM scheme called Cinavia. The author makes the case that software like Cinavia is hastening the death of a Blu-ray industry already struggling to compete with online media streaming. Quoting: “In our opinion, it is the studios and the Blu-ray system manufacturers who have had the say in deciding upon the suitability of a particular DRM …
Google is in talks with film studios to begin selling movies through Google Play, the search giant’s recently redesigned hub for exploring and buying apps, movies, books and music, a new report indicates.
In this week’s new movies, the much anticipated film “The Hunger Games†finally hits theaters along with several foreign flicks. Here’s what the Post critics had to say: “ The Hunger Games †(PG-13) “If the series’s legions of fans miss a detail here or a sub-plot there, they’ll still recognize its bones and sinew, especially in Jennifer Lawrence’s eagle-eyed heroine Katniss Everdeen, who …
The Muslim fanatic who killed seven people in France was so proud of his unspeakably evil work that he uploaded sickening video to the Internet showing him executing a helpless, terrified 8-year-old girl, officials said. Mohammed Merah is seen yanking Myriam Monsenego by her hair — then firing a bullet into…
The DVD release of David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the US is giving legitimate buyers and renters a mighty shock.
U.S. movie buffs will pay to watch more movies online in 2012 than they will on physical video formats like DVD. That historic first marks a tipping point for Hollywood — and its business model.
Ticket sales for movies shown around the globe rose 3 percent in 2011 to $32.6 billion, largely because of growth in booming markets like China.