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NEW MOVIES COMING TO ITUNES Thursday, May 1 2008 Apple announced today that it has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Sony, Lionsgate, and other studios to sell movies via its iTunes online service on the same day that the studios release them on DVD. The company had previously reached a similar agreement with Disney. New titles will sell for $14.99; catalog titles for $9.99. The agreements, coming with so many studios all at once, would appear to thwart threats (more) TWO MORE STUDIOS TO SELL NEW MOVIES ON ITUNES Thursday, April 17 2008 Two more major film studios are risking the wrath of major retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy by making movies available on Apple's iTunes store on the same day the DVD versions hit the shelves in stores. Daily Variety reported today (Thursday) that Fox will offer Juno online next Tuesday, when it also releases the DVD and Blu-ray versions. The trade publication also reported that Paramount offered Beowulf for purchase online shortly after it hit (more) |
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Apple will be paying Hollywood's leading film studios $16.00 for every movie that it sells online for a dollar less, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Friday), following Apple's announcement that it will begin selling new films on its iTunes store that can be downloaded on the same day they are released on DVD for $14.99. The price disparity was described as a "loss leader" -- an effort by Apple to entice consumers to buy more of its video iPods and its Apple TV, a device that beams movies from a personal computer to a TV set wirelessly. "This is a game changer," Universal Studios Home Entertainment President Craig Kornblau told the Journal. "For all the studios to offer all their movies [on the same date] as DVD, with the most influential marketing company in the digital space, is a very exciting development." (Ironically, Universal's corporate sibling, NBC, recently removed its television shows from the iTunes store.) 
