Apple to Sell Movie Downloads on iTunes Site
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By Lore Croghan, Daily News, New York  Sep. 13--Now playing at an iPod near you: "Pirates of the Caribbean" and  more than 75 other Disney movies.
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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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In an effort to win attention for the iTunes movie category, Apple will debut Edward Burnsâs latest film, âPurple Violets,â exclusively on its download service.
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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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Available today with the free download of iTunes 7.6, iTunes Movie Rentals allows customers to rent movies for as little as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods, iPhone and Apple TV. Featuring movies from all the major movie studiosâ20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line CinemaâiTunes Movie Rentals is expected to offer more than 1,000 movie titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles featuring stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Movies can be rented directly from a widescreen TV using Apple TV.
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Aiming to solidify its dominance in digital media, Apple began selling movie downloads from Disney on Tuesday and introduced a device to take music, movies and photos from PCs to the TV.
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Apple Inc  and News Corp.'s  (NWSa.N) 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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iTunes, a legal music download service from Apple, previously unavailable in Canada, finally launched its much anticipated Canadian online store yesterday.
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By MAY WONG  SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer, which pioneered the online distribution of music and television shows, appears poised to jump into the movie business.
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CHICAGO _ In a move widely viewed as inevitable, Steve Jobs said Tuesday that Apple Computer Inc. will sell movies from its online music store with prices starting at $9.99.
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Apple Computer Inc. will soon begin selling feature-length movies online for viewing on its iPod devices, according to Hollywood sources, as the company hopes to duplicate its success with selling music through its iTunes digital store.
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(InfoWorld) - In only one week, Apple Computer's iTunes Store generated $1 million in movie sales for Walt Disney, and that's "just the beginning," the head of Disney said Tuesday. By the end of this year, Disney expects to reap $50 million in movie sales through the iTunes Store "at no marketing expense to us at all," said Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Disney, at a conference put on by The Goldman Sacks Group and webcast over the Internet. Disney became the first company to offer movies through the iTunes Store last week, a total of 75 films including new titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," and older classics such as "The Incredibles" and "Cinderella." The initial success of the venture, with over 125,000 Disney titles sold in a week, should help boost confidence in the Internet as a lucrative place for entertainment companies to deliver content to users. It should also help allay fears over movie piracy, an issue the movie and recording industry has fought a tough battle against. "We are very, very bullish on consumption over electronically delivered media and we're taking a very optimistic view of technology as a friend, or a great enabler, and not a great predator," Iger said. Disney plans to expand the number of movies it offers through iTunes and the number of Web-based stores where users can buy its movies. "This is not exclusive to Apple," he said. During the Goldman conference, Iger also praised Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his performance asÂ a Disney board memberÂ for bringing in his ideas on new opportunities for media in the Internet age. "He has become, very quickly, not only a great sounding board but a great advisor, someone I can turn to readily for advice in a lot of these areas," said Iger. Jobs became a major shareholder and board member of Disney after the media and entertainment giant bought computer animation studio Pixar earlier this year. Jobs had been head of Pixar and a major shareholder in the company. An audio webcast of comments by Iger can beÂ accessed here.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Apple Inc. will sell television programs  in Britain via its iTunes store as part of its push to become a  one-stop shop for digital entertainment, the U.S. company said  on Wednesday.
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Apple Computer Inc. said on  Tuesday its iTunes online music store would begin selling  movies from Disney, Pixar, and Touchstone as the company makes  its most aggressive move yet into the digital home.
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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  will start renting movies over the Internet, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Tuesday, moving the iPhone and iPod maker into a very competitive market.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment  Group on Tuesday became the latest division of a major  Hollywood studio to offer television shows, including the hit  sitcom "Friends," for sale on Apple Computer Inc's   iTunes Web site.