Netflix to Stream ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Netflix, a leading online movie rental service, says it’ll invite America to a free and commercially uninterrupted online screening of the newly restored 1939 classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” on Saturday, October 3, 2009. The film, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and reissued earlier this month by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, can be [...]

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Headweb Offers Warner Bros. Movies

Headweb has entered into collaboration with Warner Bros. The latter’s movie library will now be available to users through the online movie service Headweb. The films are available on the website and the users can watch Headweb’s movies using on-demand streaming in a standard web browser or via software that can be downloaded from http://www.headweb.com. [...]

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‘Shorts’ Releasing August 21

From filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, creator of the “Spy Kids” trilogy and “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D,” comes the family action-adventure “Shorts.” Eleven-year-old Toe Thompson is the designated punching bag for the bullies of the suburban community of Black Falls, where his and everyone else’s parents work for Black Box Industries, makers of [...]

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Cinema Now Streaming into India

Sonic Solutions and Verismo Networks have joined hands to enable consumers in India to stream video entertainment. Verismo will begin offering video content from Roxio CinemaNow as part of its VuNow Internet TV platform, which is available for original equipment manufacturers, as well as service providers. The platform is being deployed by ACT Television as [...]

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Romantic Proposal for Mobile Women in China

Harlequin Enterprises, a leading publisher of books for women, says that digital comics based on Harlequin novels will be made available for mobile distribution in China. Harlequin Comics are adaptations based on the publisher’s romance novels. Here are the trends. Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is also offering its first digital comic book “Terminator Salvation” for [...]

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Warner Bros. Offers Digital Comic Books on iPhone

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is offering division’s first digital comic book “Terminator Salvation” for the iPhone and iPod touch. Published by IDW, written by Dara Naraghi (“Lifelike”) and art by Alan Robinson, the multi-part graphic novel details a series of events that have transpired since Judgment Day and culminates with the story found in “Terminator [...]

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Warner Bros., Vertigo to Release The Firm

Warner Bros. Pictures UK says it will be releasing Nick Love’s latest movie THE FIRM in a joint venture with Vertigo Films. Set for release in the UK and Ireland on 25th September 2009, THE FIRM, written and directed by Love, is loosely adapted from Alan Clarke’s classic 1989 drama of the same name. Telling [...]

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New Mobile Game Star: Sherlock Holmes

Gameloft, a leading publisher and developer of digitally distributed video games, announced today (April 28) a worldwide licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to develop, publish, and distribute the mobile game for the Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ film Sherlock Holmes. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey, [...]

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Hello! Movie Here…I Love You, Mobile

Hello! Movie Here…I Love You, Mobile By Rakesh Raman The romantic infatuation between movies and mobiles is now touching serious limits, as most young movies prefer to embrace mobiles in one form or the other – trailers, promos, games, et al. Among the recent ones is Hannah Montana Star Moves mobile game, which is available [...]

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Warner Archive Collection: Classic Films on DVDs

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has launched the “Warner Archive Collection,” a selection of movies spanning more than 60 years of filmmaking, on DVD. The film and television vault is now open to consumers who can now purchase DVD and digital downloads of more than 150 classic titles drawn from Warner Bros. Entertainment’s film library [...]

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