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Apple to release movies at the same day as DVDs

Administrator — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:59:02 +0000

Not content with dominating the world’s music business, Apple wants to do the same thing to the movie business, too. Apple is now starting “day and date” releases of new movies, i.e., the digital versions are made available on the same day as the DVD release. Apple has secured deals with most major studios including Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

You can now buy movies direct from your Apple TV, too — no need to get off the couch to get to Walmart.

20th Century Fox movies coming to iTunes

Administrator — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:46:33 +0000

Apple’s runaway success with the iTunes Store has attracted both positive and negative attention. Its disagreement and fallout with NBC is the most recent. Apple has been most successful with music and to a lesser extent TV shows. The selection of movies available on iTunes, however, has been limited at best. Now for some good news : 20th Century Fox movies might be coming to iTunes.

It will be good for consumers and for the studios to have more movies available on the world’s biggest online media store.

A lightsaber in space

Administrator — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:30:37 +0000

There are many children of the 70s and 80s who dreamt of being a Jedi Knight — going off into space, wielding a lightsaber, fighting the evil empire. Well we know at least today, the first 2 are possible.

One of the items brought on the Space Shuttle Discovery is a lightsaber. Not just any lightsaber, in fact, but Luke Skywalker’s own. Unfortunately, the astronauts won’t be able to play with the lightsaber since they have a pretty full schedule and the lightsaber is stored in an inaccessible location anyway.

Let’s hope Darth Vader doesn’t turn up in the meantime…

Star Wars TV series : coming soon?

Administrator — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:34:49 +0000

George Lucas has reportedly recovered from spending all his billions gained from gullible fans through Star Wars I-III. Now, he’s set to reap even more money from the Star Wars franchise, this time through a live TV series. The series will not have any major characters from the movies, but will instead focus only on minor supporting characters. For this purpose, I hope Jar Jar Binks is classified as a major character.

I don’t doubt that the core fans of Star Wars will be watching the series — but who else would tune in? As yet, there is very little detail available. All we know is, knowing George Lucas, it will be expensive.

Die Hard with a DVD and digital copy

Administrator — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:49:25 +0000

Did you ever think that Die Hard would still be around, this many years later? 20th Century Fox is trying out something new with the DVD release of the latest Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard . A Windows Media, DRM-free version of the movie will be available the on Disc 2 of the “Live Free” DVD. You need to enter a 16-digit serial code (inside the DVD case) in order to copy the file to your PC.