Apple Working on Movie-Rental Deal for iTunes
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According to London&#39;s Financial Times, Apple is in advanced discussions with Hollywood movie studios about launching an online film-rental service to rival cable and satellite TV operators. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting the movie-rental deal, citing two studio executives familiar with the matter.
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Apple is set to unveil at MacWorld San Francisco a groundbreaking deal with News Corp.'s Fox movie studio to rent movies through Apple's iTunes store, news reports revealed Thursday. If true, the news could impact the landscape for on-demand movie rentals dramatically.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on   Tuesday it will begin selling movie downloads from Walt Disney   Co.'s film studios, aiming to turn its iTunes online music   store into a one-stop shop for digital entertainment.
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Movie studio Lionsgate has agreed to begin selling its movies on Apple's iTunes Store, joining Disney and Paramount and bringing the number of available films up to 400. "Terminator 2," "LA Story," "Total Recall," and "The Blair Witch Project" are among the 150 movies being offered by Lionsgate this month for $9.99.
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During his Macworld 2008 keynote Tuesday, Steve Jobs announced what everyone knew was coming: iTunes movie rentals. An update to Apple TV was also unveiled.
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Apple Inc and Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent Fox movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store, according to media reports on Thursday.
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As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced "one more thing" on Tuesday: movie downloads through iTunes. Customers will initially have access to 75 films, with more being added each week. For now, however, only movies from Disney will be offered.
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes Music Store, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
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Zipadee do dah It's only been a week since Disney plonked a load of movies on Apple's iTunes store, but already the studio is squeaking about how well it's all going.â¦
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Reports of a deal with Fox signal a fresh push from Apple into digital video.
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Apple Inc and News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox are set to announce a deal that will allow consumers to rent movies through Apple's digital iTunes Store, media reports said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public. In a statement, NBC disputes Apple's characterization of the companies' contract renegotiation and says that its TV programs will be available on iTunes through early December. Late last week,Â Apple said that NBC wanted to increase the price for its video contentÂ so much that iTunes would have to sell individual TV shows for $4.99, instead of $1.99, like the rest of the available programs. Because Apple wasn't willing to agree to that price hike, NBC declined to renew its contract, Apple said. So that it wouldn't have to stop selling programs in December -- the middle of the TV season -- when their contract ends, Apple said it wouldn't offer any NBC shows for the upcoming season. But Apple may have a bigger battle on its hands if it does pull those shows from the iTunes video store. In its statement, NBC said that all returning series including new episodes would be available on iTunes through the end of the contract. NBC also said that rather than asking to double the wholesale price of its programs as Apple contends, it wanted to offer end-users more flexible pricing, including bundling packages of shows for a set price. Apple has mostly stuck to a policy of flat pricing despite pressure from content owners to allow for variable pricing. The exception is in the music store where a selection of songs that come without copy protection cost more. Both companies took jabs at each other in their statements. Apple called NBC's suggested pricing change a "dramatic price increase." NBC responded thus: "It is clear that Apple's retail pricing strategy for its iTunes service is designed to drive sales of Apple devices, at the expense of those who create the content that make these devices worth buying." NBC also sells programs on Amazon.com and very soon plans to start offering its shows and others for free on Hulu.com, a joint venture company with News Corp. So far, sales in the iTunes video store are relatively low. During 2007, the store should generate about $300 million, according to estimates from Forrester Research.
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From Breakfast At Tiffanyâs to Once to Shakespeare in Love, youâll find plenty of perfectly romantic titles to rent from iTunes. And now that the Apple TV software update is available, you can browse, choose, and rent your Valentineâs evening movie right from a cozy corner of your sofa. Come see how easy it is to update your Apple TV.
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Owners of the set-top device will have to wait a little longer for the highly-anticipated upgrade that allows the renting of movies from iTunes.
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Movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store starting today. iTunes customers will be able to purchase blockbuster Lionsgate films such as âTerminator 2,â âLA Story,â âBasic Instinct,â âThe Blair Witch Projectâ and âDirty Dancingâ and more than 150 titles coming to iTunes this month.
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Apple Inc. is preparing to announce next month the long-rumored launch of a movie rental service through its online iTunes Store, as well as a groundbreaking licensing deal of its anti-piracy technology Â moves that could dramatically boost the appeal of digital movie distribution.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on   Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling   movies from Walt Disney Co.'s Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and   Miramax divisions as the iconic company makes it most   aggressive move yet into the digital home.