Tag archive: Miramax

Miramax has officially launched a new Facebook app, which will allow users to watch a variety of trailers and rent streaming feature-length films though the social network, reports paidContent. The deal is the largest such streaming offering on Facebook, to date. As of today, the Miramax Experience app, which is still in beta, lets US Facebook users choose from 20 feature film titles, which they can stream through Facebook for 30 Facebook… Read More

Movie studio Miramax has inked a multi-year deal with video streaming service Hulu that will see hundreds of Miramax films available for streaming to Hulu Plus subscribers, along with a rotating set of 15 movies available to non-subscribers through ad-supported streaming. Miramax films included in the deal include acclaimed movies like Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, and My Left Foot; the companies claim hundreds of the… Read More

Netflix mixes some pretty strong Kool-Aid with its thousands-strong on demand library of Watch Instantly movies and TV shows available for streaming. Most of Hollywood has taken a sip already, and now we can add one more convert: Miramax. The studio announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with the online video service today in a press release. The terms of the deal kick off in June, when “several hundred Miramax movies” are… Read More

Netflix is preparing to tighten its vise-like stranglehold on the market for streaming movies and TV on the Internet, not that that's a bad thing. The online rental service's Watch Instantly feature is insanely popular for a reason, with a thousands-strong library of both popular and obscure offerings that can be viewed with the click of a button for a low monthly fee. Now the company is closing in on a deal with Miramax that will… Read More

Miramax is about to become an independent company again and Google is hoping to be its first partner. The search giant is in talks to license Miramax's 700+ film library for distribution on YouTube and Google TV, the LA Times reports. The move could help Google remain relevant amidst a growing number of competitors. Since its launch last month, Google TV has seen several setbacks as a significant number of broadcast networks and cable… Read More

At a Goldmand Sacks Group investor conference held yesterday, Disney CEO Roer Iger said the company had sold 125,000 Disney movies via Apple's new iTunes digital video store during its first week of operation “at no marketing expense to us at all.” The sales account for $1 million in movie sales, and Iger says it expects to see $50 million in iTunes movie sales by the end of 2006. “We are very, very bullish on… Read More