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Vudu Now Offering Download-to-Own HD Movies

Vudu Now Offering Download-to-Own HD Movies

Video service Vudu has become the first on-demand digital video provider to offer a download-to-own option for high-definition movies, starting off with 50 HD titles from independent film companies like Kino, FirstLook, and Magnolia Pictures—and that happens to include the just-won-an-Oscar documentary Man on Wire.

Under the service, high-definition titles can be stored on a user’s Vudu set-top box or in the online Vudu vault, an online storage service for movies and TV shows. High-definition movies are priced from $13.99 to $23.99. Selections are available in either HD or Vudu’s own HDX format at the same price; Vudu claims HDX is the highest quality on-demand format available in any medium. Vudu will offer every HD release from Kino, FirstLook, and Magnolia Pictures for high-def purchase day-and-date with the film’s DVD release. Vudu says they expect to see other film studios get on board with the download-to-own option in the coming months.

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YouTube Embraces Indie Film

YouTube Embraces Indie Film

As video sharing site YouTube gets closer and closer to consumers’ living room television, it’s no surprise the service is trying to come up with ways to offer higher quality content than, say, teenagers doing karaoke via a Web cam or eight years-olds staging sock puppet plays. To that end, YouTube has announced Screening Room, a dedicated area of the YouTube site featuring high-quality shorts from independent filmmakers.

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Nokia and Spike Lee to Create Social Film

Nokia and Spike Lee to Create Social Film

Nokia has announced a partnership with Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee to create what it’s calling the “world’s first social film.” Cantered on the theme of how music “tells the story of humanity,” the film will be assembled through original content captured on mobile devices and submitted to the Nokia Productions site via the Internet.

“The future of filmmaking is changing and mobile-generated art is fast becoming the next medium for film,” said Spike Lee, in a statement. “In five years, I believe we will be watching films in movie theaters that have been shot on a mobile phone. [..] With a simple mobile phone, almost anyone can now become a filmmaker.”

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EA Reveals Glimpse of Spielberg Games

EA Reveals Glimpse of Spielberg Games

Mega game-publisher Electronic Arts has disclosed brief details of two games it is developing with Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg. The games will mark the first fruit of EA’s much-heralded (and now doubt expensive) multi-year partnership with Spielberg announced in late 2005. Under the deal, Spielberg will develop three new games for Electronic Arts; EA gets full rights to the games, while Spielberg gets first crack at adapting the games for film or television.

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EA Warns on Earnings, Spore Delay

The world’s largest video game publisher, Electronic Arts, posted a larger-than-expected quarterly loss this week, and lowered its forecasts of future profits below Wall Street estimates as it admits it is not counting on revenue from its much-anticipated video game Spore for its fiscal year ending in March 2008—meaning it could be up to a year (or more!) before the game reaches consumers.  Read more...

Scarface Game Gets The Skywalker Treatment

Scarface Game Gets The Skywalker Treatment

Sierra Entertainment’s new video game Scarface: The World is Yours is scheduled to hit retail stores October 8, and will feature sound design and audio effects on par with big-budget Hollywood blockbusters, mixed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch by Oscar-winning sound designer Randy Thom.

“Scarface is an icon of American cinema and the game needs to live up to not only the film’s enduring legacy but also quality level of today’s best blockbuster films,” said Cindy Cook, Vivendi Games’ chief strategy and marketing officer. “Our goal from the very beginning was to deliver the best possible experience as Tony Montana. By partnering with the best sound studio in the world and working with a Hollywood legend like Randy Thom, we have ensured that the sound quality in Scarface: The World Is Yours will be second-to-none.”

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Microsoft Inks Game Deal with Peter Jackson

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has entered a partnership with Oscar-winning husband-and-wife team Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh to create the third installment of the Halo Xbox video game franchise, as well as an entirely original game.

Director, writer, and producer Jackson and screenwriter Walsh brought the enormously successful Lord of the Rings trilogy and (more recently) King Kong to movie screens and innumerable DVD players worldwide. Almost a year ago, Microsoft signed Jackson and Walsh as executive producers for a theatrical movie based on the Halo franchise.  Read more...

Warner Brothers Announces New HD DVD TItles

Warner Brothers yesterday announced the upcoming releases of their latest HD DVD titles. The Fugitive and Blazing Saddles are due to hit store shelves May 23 for $28.99 each.

For those not familiar with these films, Warner Brothers describes the plots of the movies as follows: The Fugitive stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones in a box-office hit and Best Picture Oscar-nominated motion picture based on the long-running TV series about a surgeon falsely accused of killing his wife, while Blazing Saddles stars Cleavon Little as an unlikely sheriff in the town of Rock Ridge, Harvey Korman as the villain, Madeline Kahn as a Marlene Dietrich-style chanteuse, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid and Mel Brooks himself as a not-too-sharp politico.  Read more...

Hollywood Files More Web lawsuits

“The civil suits against unnamed “John Doe” defendants seek up to $150,000 per downloaded digital file and come as the film industry prepares for its annual Oscar telecast in Hollywood where awards for top films and stars are given out. 
 
The studios claim they lose $3.5 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets.”

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Apple ships Shake 3

Shake 3 includes new Mac OS X only features such as Shake Qmaster network render management software that allows visual effects artists to easily distribute rendering tasks across a cluster of Apple’s Xserve 1U rack servers or desktop Power Mac G4 computers for maximum performance and efficiency. In addition, Mac OS X users of Shake receive unlimited network render licenses at no extra cost. Shake 3 also includes new features available to Mac OS X, Linux and IRIX customers, including film grain simulation and tracking on paint strokes.  Read more...

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