Hollywood leaps into same-day DVD and Internet digital film sales

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2006

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood will make a transcendent leap onto the Internet when the Oscar-winning "Brokeback Mountain" becomes the first blockbuster available for permanent download on the same day its DVDs hit the shelves.

Two competing download services announced Monday they will offer saveable downloads of such hit films as last year's Oscar-nominated "King Kong" and "Memoirs of a Geisha" just as they become available in video stores, allowing users to watch them any time they wish.

Top studios Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox began selling permanent copies of more than 200 movies on Movielink, their jointly owned Internet video-on-demand company.

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