When Walmart bought movie-streaming service Vudu earlier this year, you could predict the world’s biggest retailer would marry its physical retail sales with Vudu’s online service.
Today Walmart is doing just that. Now, anybody who online movies buys Disney Pixar’s Toy Story 3 on DVD or Blu-ray disks at a Walmart store will also receive a code to redeem a digital copy of the film on Vudu. With that service, users will be able to watch the movie anywhere in the world via a broadband connection.
Now that Walmart and Vudu have online movies combined forces, they can encourage users to buy their combination of a physical movie and its digital version for the same price. The combination of retail and digital online distribution is likely to be a powerful one for many businesses. GameStop, the biggest video game retailer, bought the digital online game portal Kongregate in order to execute on the online movies same kind of plan. The big plus is that the retailers get a huge amount of foot traffic and can point those consumers to digital properties while they’re in the stores.
Vudu announced last week that it would make its steaming movies available on the PC, the Mac, and the Boxee set-top box for the TV via online movies D-Link’s Boxee service. Walmart bought Santa Clara, Calif.-based Vudu in the spring as part of its move into digital distribution of movies. Vudu has 55 employees. Its rivals include Apple TV, Amazon and CinemaNow.
with the recent confirmation that Apple is getting ready to launch the iTunes of newsstands, we could be on the verge of ceding our content and customers to them.
What happens if an “iStand” supplants the online movies newsstand in the way iTunes has supplanted the record store and it supplants our traditional means of driving subscriptions?
Currently it means the characteristics and locations of readers we’ve long had a direct relationship with, whom we know so much about—which online movies allows us to provide them better content and more meaningful ways to engage while also allowing us to better service our advertisers—will be in the hands of Apple, not us.
He makes a very good point.
Moving to a digital business model is incredibly challenging for publishers of print publications. One of the advantages is that there is a tremendous amount of reader data that can be gathered, such as which sections are read the most; which online movies ads are viewed; demographic data on readers, and much more, without needing to use expensive focus groups and surveys.
This type of customer data can be easily collected through publisher web sites but not when Apple is the publisher and hosts the content as an “app” on iTunes. Apple stands in the way of collecting that data.
This also means problems for online online movies advertisers that try to target ads to readers. They can’t follow readers across all of their reading content, as they can on the Internet. This is probably why Apple has been acquiring advertising companies since it will be the only game in town with that capability.
ET released new Transformers 3 action,explosion movie clip online. Entertainment Tonight recently visited the set of the huge “Transformers 3″ movie,which is titled “Dark Of The Moon,” and put together this online movies nice video clip (below).
It features behind the scenes interviews with the major cast and crew of the film: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, Patrick online movies Dempsey, Alan Tudyk and John Turturro.
They show clips with Patrick Dempsey’s character,which reveals that he’s right in the thick of things when it comes to the explosion scenes. He will also have a little romance with Megan Fox replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. They online movies show an exclusive flying stunt scene,featuring Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhmal,along with a ton of explosions.
From the looks of this clip,it appears that most of this movie will be filled with just explosions. It’s insane,and I can see why that extra got hurt while filming this crazy movie. The clip also features interviews with director Michael Bay. He tells online movies a little bit about what the movie will entail. Check it out in the clip,below. Transformers 3 hits theaters on July 1,2011. Follow us on Facebook for more movie news,and more by Clicking Here. Get your favorite TV Shows and Movies on dvd or blue ray disc by Clicking Here.
Once upon a time, a kid who loved comic books, horror movies, and the Three Stooges and really wanted to be a filmmaker started with a low-budget horror movie. Unlike most first timers, Sam Raimi's scrappy little horror movie -- The Evil online movies Dead -- spawned two sequels, video games, a comic-book series, and a gory tongue-in-cheek musical. Any horror fan worth his or her weight in blood has seen The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness, but even the most devoted fans can always be surprised. Deepen your appreciation with ten little-known facts about the Evil Dead trilogy.
1. Rocky Horror Fans Helped The Evil online movies Dead Get Made
Without The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its fanatical devotees, The Evil Dead may never have been. Raimi's movie started as a short that was shown theatrically with Rocky Horror. The reaction helped persuade potential investors to put up money for a feature-length version.
2. Stephen King Brought The Evil Dead to online movies America
Displaying prescient judgment and business savvy, no U.S. distributor was interested in The Evil Dead -- that is, until Stephen King saw the movie and wrote a rave review, dubbing it the "most ferociously original horror film of the year."
3. The Evil Dead Set Off a Chain of Horror-Movie Jokes
The Hills Have Eyes poster online movies that appears briefly in The Evil Dead is Raimi's homage to Wes Craven's use of a ripped poster from Jaws in The Hills Have Eyes itself. Craven responded by having Nancy Thompson watch The Evil Dead on TV in A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Raimi countered by hanging a Freddy Krueger glove above the toolshed door in Evil Dead II.