Posted January 16, 2013, 11:15 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
During a recent interview on The Nerdist podcast, Valve boss Gabe Newell said his company has declined offers from Hollywood movie studios on a few different occasions. Specifically, filmmakers have been interested in adapting hits like Half-Life and Left 4…
Posted January 24, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Former senator turned MPAA CEO, Christopher Dodd, managed to earn the public's ire this week by making remarks which many claim are akin to a public admission of bribery. A petition to investigate the former senator has already garnered over 25,000 supporters --…
Posted May 10, 2011, 6:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
As expected, Google has announced that YouTube is now offering some 3,000 full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios available to rent. This brings the total number of movie titles available to rent on YouTube to over 6,000. The service,…
Posted April 26, 2011, 12:37 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Industry News
After years of rumors, YouTube is finally launching a movie-on-demand service over at youtube.com/store. Google has charged users for movie rentals for over a year now, but the search giant is finally moving to stream mainstream Hollywood movies from the…
Would you pay $30 to rent a movie? Hollywood hopes that you will. Late next month, a service called Home Premiere will allow consumers to view films on-demand two months after they exit theaters. This is before they're out on DVD...
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