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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCinemaNow downloads MGM. (Video-on-Demand).(Brief Article)
Video Business, February, 2002 by Hettrick, Scott
CinemaNow has struck a deal with MGM Home Entertainment to become the first online video-on-demand movie service to offer films from a major studio by download instead of video streaming. MGM is supplying two movies as part of a test that CinemaNow CEO Curt Marvis hopes will lead to a broader deal.
"The intention of both parties is to move forward and continue to work together," Marvis said. "We had to go through a lot of due diligence to prove we had the technology to do this." First up was a release aptly named for this endeavour--What's the Worst That Could Happen?, starring Danny DeVito and Martin Lawrence. Also available on Feb. 21 was The Man in the Iron Mask with Leonardo DiCaprio. "A test with Cinema-Now allows us to explore how...
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