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New Launches: The Film Club, MuZu TV Aim For Movie, Music Crowds - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:06 AM PST

-- The Film Club: Another bunch of film distributors is setting up an online distributor. Terry Stone, Mike Watson and Anthony Nottage are working on The Film Lounge, an adult…

Filmklik Sells Stake To Form Euro VOD Platform - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 09:51 AM PST

A new eastern European VOD movie venture is in the offering. One of the region’s movie distributors, A Company, has acquired 25.1 in Hungarian VOD platform Filmklik.hu, with the intention…

Moto To Offer Full-Length Movies For Download On Handsets In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:11 PM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT), feeling ignored among all the iPhone-mania, has announced a deal of its own: in UK, it has done a deal with Paramount Pictures to offer full-length film…

Apple Launches UK And Canada iTunes Movie Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 04 Jun 2008 08:27 PM PST

Putting an end to the guesswork of the iTunes movie store launch date, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has begun offering titles for sale or rent to its UK and Canadian iTunes…

Spotted In Canary Wharf: Nokia’s Small Cinema - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 05:15 PM PST

Snapped by Robert right in the middle of London’s Canary Wharf, and mostly ignored by busy financial workers today, was what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) dubbed “the world’s smallest cinema” (not…

TheMoviesClub Co-Op Lets Film Buffs Play Mogul - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 03:21 AM PST

It’s worked for a football club (MyFootballClub.co.uk) and for bands (Sellaband, Slicethepie, Marillion); now a stealth-mode new online cooperative aims to let movie buffs call the shots in the film…

BlinkBox Adds Full-Length Shows To Clip Messaging Model, Out Of Beta - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 02:19 AM PST

Startup blinkBox is adding full-length TV shows to its film/TV clip messaging offering as it comes out of beta phase today. Founded by former 4 Services MD Michael Comish and…

French Supermarket Giant Carrefour Plans Movie Download Store - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:41 AM PST

Latest to launch a movie download store - and the latest amongst the supermarkets to try their hand - is France’s Carrefour. The world’s second largest retail group after Wal-Mart…

BT Vision Adds Universal Pictures VoD Service PictureBox - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:17 AM PST

BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box. For £5 per month, customers get to pick from a…

Broadband Content Bits: Video Metrix, Irish Movies, Virgin Debt, BBC/Siemens - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 12:55 AM PST

- Video metrics: Two years after it launched in the US, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is bringing its Video Metrix web video tracking rankings to the UK, France, Germany and Canada.…

Broadband Content Bits: Warner Accelerates VOD, Orange Premium TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 12:15 AM PST

- Warner Bros: The movie studio is to make some films available over VOD platforms the same day they go on sale as DVDs. The studio is giving Sky Box…

Dailymotion Cosying To Indie Film Makers In Content Hunt - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Apr 2008 07:46 AM PST

Paris-based video upload site Dailymotion is trying to prove viewers will watch long-form content on the web, launching Cinema Dailymotion - a space for “streaming feature-length films and documentaries” (see…

Big Hopes For On-Demand DVDs; Worth $1.1 Billion By 2012: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 19 Mar 2008 02:21 AM PST

Finger-in-the-air time. On-demand DVD sales will reach $33 million in the US and major European countries this year but grow to a whopping $1.1 billion by 2012, a new report…

Babelgum Becoming Film ‘Studio’ In Latest Strategy Shift - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 11 Mar 2008 12:58 AM PST

It seems Babelgum is enjoying the search for quality content so much, it’s becoming a content company. The heavily-financed P2P platform is creating a 10 million euro (£7.64 million) fund…

Short Film Distributor Cinelan Launches, Gets Funding From Arts Alliance - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 25 Feb 2008 11:53 AM PST

We missed this one earlier this month: Cinelan, a new New York City-based company hosting a library of professionally produced three-minute nonfiction short films, launched at the Berlin International Film…

Broadband Content Bits: Paramount On Xbox, BBC Tribler Work, Tiscali Rom-com Prem - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 19 Feb 2008 01:10 AM PST

- BBC P2P: A BBC R&D team is working with broadcasters, universities and developers across Europe on P2P Next, a continent-wide initiative to build a legal, cross-platform P2P system based…

Will Lovefilm Get The Love? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 10 Feb 2008 04:20 PM PST

Lovefilm, the UK online DVD rental service which recently announced buying Amazon.com’s (NSDQ: AMZN) competing UK service, is of course bullish on its prospects. It had about 450K subscribers, which…

@ Berlinale: Netflix Not Planning Return To Europe, HP/Wal-Mart Movie Income ‘Peanuts’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 10 Feb 2008 04:07 PM PST

As Berlin buzzed to visits from stars like Penelope Cruz and Sir Ben Kingsley tonight, I was on Arts Alliance Media’s digital media panel debate during the European Film Market…

Archos Bringing Movie Download Store To UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 08 Feb 2008 03:09 AM PST

Media player maker Archos is bringing its French movie download service to the UK, going head-to-head with the imminent European launch of iTunes Movie Rentals (via Pocketlint). Archos Movie Club…

Lovefilm Buying Two Of Amazon’s European DVD Rental Businesses - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 03:59 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is selling its UK and German online DVD rental businesses to London-based Lovefilm for an undisclosed sum and making a cash investment that sees it become the…

European Patchwork A Possible Sticking Point For iTunes Movie Rentals - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 21 Jan 2008 01:11 AM PST

Us pesky Europeans… with our… separate countries and… distinct national jurisdictions! This NYT piece nibbles at the likely reason Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Movie Rentals won’t hit these shores until…

Swedish Authorities Expected To Charge File Sharing Service The Pirate Bay - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 15 Jan 2008 06:30 AM PST

Swedish prosecutors are expected to charge the operators of Swedish file sharing service The Pirate Bay with “conspiracy to breach copyrights,” later this month according to the Wall Street Journal.…

UK VOD Service FilmFlex Bought By Sony Pictures and Disney - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Jan 2008 01:40 PM PST

FilmFlex, the cable movies VOD service in UK, has been bought by Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television and Walt Disney...the two studios already owned a third each of the business,…

Mobile Content Bits: Nuts TV Turns On, Film 24 Goes Mobile, Orange’s 70,000 French iPhones - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 04 Jan 2008 06:06 AM PST

Latest European mobile content headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net… -- Turner Broadcasting System Launches Mobile TV Channels: Turner Broadcasting System and mobile video and TV technology firm Mobix have…

Sky Anytime Signs On Paramount, Warner Bros Movies For VOD - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 21 Dec 2007 02:32 AM PST

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has agreed to terms with Paramount and Warner Bros to make the studios’ movies available on its Sky Anytime on-demand service. The service already had agreements with…