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Even for a fan who donated to the cause, the effort required to watch crowd-funded “Veronica Mars” on its opening day was just maybe above-and-beyond, thanks to Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Is Buying a Stake in Struggling YouTube Net Machinima. Here’s Why After months of rumors, Warner Bros. is now making…
The network behind cult hits like “Gossip Girl” and “Supernatural” has launched a new platform for digital-only properties, creating a new opportunity for exploring what works and what doesn’t online.
Zach Braff is raising money for his next movie on Kickstarter. That’s wrong, argues writer, producer and director Ken Levine.
Would you pay $10 a month to rewatch Gilligan’s Island? Warner Bros. thinks some people will, and launched a video service to do so.
Fans of edgy animated fare just got a few more reasons to binge as Netflix has started to add cult classics from Adult Swim and Cartoon Network to its catalog.
Veronica Mars is coming back, thanks to Kickstarter: A crowdsourced fundraising campaign to make a Veronica Mars movie has hit its $2 million goal in just 10 hours.
Deal brings the Aaron Sorkin-penned political drama The West Wing and the Fox sci-fi/fantasy series Fringe exclusively to members of Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, as well as purchasers of its Kindle Fire tablet
DVD sales may not be what they were, but the road to Hollywood riches still goes through Walmart’s Bentonville, Ark. headquarters. Fortunately, to see a demo of the retailer’s new UltraViolet cloud service, we only had to drive to Rosemead, Calif.
Don’t worry, we’ll work this out in time for the big dance. That is the essential message from top home entertainment officials who are stil…
We told you it was coming — and it did. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has formally announced its support for Hollywood’s struggling UltraViolet movi…
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) became the latest Hollywood studio to make an online movie distribution deal in China, announcing Monday that it has r…
Perhaps impatient with the progress of UltraViolet, Hollywood’s ambitious cloud-based movie-storage plan, two movie studios are launching th…
— Yahoo: In a reorganization of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) EMEA, Marketing VP James Tipple and Marketing Director Andrew Cocker have left the compa…
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A…
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t…
How bad are things for Hollywood’s UltraViolet initiative right now? So bad that Warner Bros., the studio behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, is giving away coupon codes for the movie to Apple’s iTunes store to placate unhappy customers.
The next step in Hollywood’s effort to educate consumers about its UltraViolet digital rights locker came from Warner Bros., which is taking to Twitter with a promoted trend aimed at getting Harry Potter fans excited about streaming the title to their computers and other devices.
AnyClip is adding another Hollywood studio to its list of content partners, with clips from Warner Bros. films now available. It’s also bolstering monetization opportunities from those clips, by enabling viewers to purchase full-length films directly through its proprietary video player.
Hollywood’s UltraViolet cloud locker service is finding some new friends in unlikely places: A German blogger reported that he was able to access the site with a coupon code he bought on eBay. The big problem: Codes trade for far less than studios would like.
Last Tuesday marked the premiere of two very different web series — a teen-skewing action comedy produced by a major studio and an independent sci-fi thriller — with one major similarity: They both chose to debut exclusively on Facebook. Could this be the new normal for web content?
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has locked in a full slate of teen angst from now through the 2014-15 season. The four-year pact covers full past seaso…
Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim…
Comedy Central heavily promoted its Roast of Charlie Sheen on Twitter, and it looks like the bet may have paid off: Twitter users commented more than twice as much about the roast than about the season debut of his former show Two and a Half Men.
If you think Android is a fragmented marketplace, take a look at mobile advertising: while there are clearly a few very big players like Goo…
Hulu’s first offering outside the U.S. is live: Hulu Japan, a subscription service with “hundreds” of films and thousands of hours of TV. Fo…
The release of a short film set in the universe of Valve Software’s popular Portal video game series has people excited over the possibility that director Dan Trachtenberg could bring his vision to a full-length version. But is such a move really likely?
Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new — Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But toda…
Earlier this year, the MPAA kicked off the entertainment industry’s battle against “cyberlockers” by suing Hotfile, a company it painted as…
Youku, the New York-listed “Chinese YouTube”, has gained a license from Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group’s CAV Warner Home Entertainment…
Visit Pottermore.com and you’ll see a magenta homepage, two owls, a “coming soon,” and that’s it…oh, except it’s also launched by J.K. Row…
If one of the best measures against piracy is to make content more easily available in a legitimate format, then Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) ha…
The entertainment industry has its eyes set on Facebook, hoping that the site will help to sell VOD rentals for Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and indie flicks alike. However, history teaches us that social networks can’t help you sell stuff that no one wants.
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has signed up Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX), and NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) to make some of thei…
In a matter of weeks, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) went from testing movie rentals via Facebook Credits to owning one of the top social conduits…
Warner Bros. is buying Flixster, and it plans to turn the site into a VOD service tied to the UltraViolet cloud DRM scheme. Part of the deal is also the movie reviews site Rotten Tomatoes. The studio promises that Rotten Tomatoes will continue to be independent.
The controversial file hoster RapidShare has taken a first step towards entering the digital content business: The company launched a download store for video games last week, and it is promising its end users to enable the sale of any kind of file soon.
Word leaked earlier this week that YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) was going to start renting out premium movie content, putting it in a position to co…
There’s nothing new about streaming movies on YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG). I have numerous legit choices right now. Nothing new either about YouTub…
Surprise! New video rental service Zediva is being taken to court for copyright infringement. The MPAA filed suit Monday on behalf of six Hollywood studios, claiming that Zediva illegally streams their films over the Internet without licensing the content from rights holders.
Warner Bros. made another four titles available for rental on Facebook. But if the social network is going to compete with iTunes or Amazon in the online VOD market, it’s going to need to make changes to the way movies are discovered and paid for.
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) will let Facebook users stream five more of its titles, in a move that reinforces the view that the social network…
This spring, there will be a new edition of the Mortal Kombat video game and an accompanying web series directed by Kevin Tancharoen. Kombat‘s adaptation into a web series, though, is less a story of corporate synergy and more a tale of happenstance.
Another week, another media company experimenting with putting up high-profile video content on Facebook. Major League Baseball is letting f…
It wasn’t that long ago that Jim Cramer was suggesting that Facebook could actually help Netflix’s stock. But this morning, news of a deal b…
Facebook is a top-10 video destination site, due to the sharing of videos between friends. But can the social network leverage its global audience for video rentals? Warner Bros. will be the first studio to find out, renting The Dark Knight for $3 on Facebook.
Warner Bros.’ intent to distribute movies as standalone apps packed with all sorts of content extras may seem like just a high-end treat for…
Last week we wrote about how social music service Rdio was picking up a round of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners. Today the company o…
What a difference a day makes for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). Less than 24 hours after an executive fired a shot across Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s…
We’ve long been skeptics of 3-D technology, due in part to the premium placed on 3D TV sets and lack of consumer interest. But one Warner Bros. exec tells us that the move to 3D TV is inevitable, and soon all TVs sold will be 3D-capable.
Hollywood held a coming-out party at CES on Thursday for its digital-content initiative, UltraViolet, complete with toasts from distribution…
If there was ever any doubt that the animus towards Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs deeper throughout Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) than chairman and CE…
Today on the Net: Netflix’s average revenue per subscriber continues to decline as it pushes the $8.99 per month plan, Disney and Warner Bros. won a $400,000 judgment against an advertiser on a pirate site and startup VYou enables users to create a video conversation.
Apple is hoping that $0.99 TV show rentals will kick-start the sale of its Apple TV device, but Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer isn’t having any of it. He simply thinks that those cheap rentals are underpriced, which is why his company stays away from them.
Netflix has been on a roll lately due to its Watch Instantly streaming service, which has helped drive subscriptions to the rental service ever-higher. And it continues to push the service, announcing today that it has added even more streaming video titles from Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Acquires Turbine, Developer of Lord of the Rings Online; Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the video game division of the Burbank…
[show=ghostfacers size=large]Watching Ghostfacers, a new WB TV (s WB) series spun off from the long-running supernatural series Supernatural, I am struck, once…
Sonic Solutions (s SNIC) is growing the amount of on-demand TV content it will have available through its Roxio CinemaNow service, striking…
Hollywood studios together with cable operators launched an ad campaign today aimed at educating consumers about on-demand video rentals available directly through…
Movieclips.com, the online video site for distributing short-form clips of Hollywood movies, has expanded the availability of its library, opening up the…
When Netflix (s NFLX) first announced that it would delay rentals of Warner Bros. (s TWX) new release titles by four weeks…
The New York Times Bits blog has an interesting piece up today that sheds a little more light on the deal Warner…
Netflix (s NFLX) has struck a deal with Warner Bros. (s TWX) that will lengthen the wait for subscribers to get new…
A group of Hollywood studios, including Disney (s DIS), Twentieth Century Fox (s NWS), Universal (s GE), Warner Bros (s TWX) and…
NHL.com Benches Inaugural Video Player In Favor Of Sleeker, More Social Model; the NHL VideoCenter is a less-cluttered, higher quality, more social…
RapidShare.com, the controversial one-click file hoster, is working on a movie site with plans to eventually include paid downloads of major Hollywood…
[qi:_newteevee] This morning’s Video Rights Roundtable was, as we hoped, a rare opportunity for online video industry players to talk about their…
The creation of original content underpins the web-video industry, but the market has exploded too quickly for copyright laws to react. Technology and content companies have necessarily developed interim approaches to monitoring, regulating, spreading and monetizing content online. Rarely have these stakeholders had a chance to sit down to talk to one another constructively about where these activities are headed. On Wednesday morning, NewTeeVee hosted this month’s Bunker Series event here at GigaOM’s San Francisco office to enable industry players to do just that. Attendees included content owners, video sites and copyright service providers, such as Ethan Applen, director of technology and business strategy, Warner Bros.; Betsy Zedek, counsel, content protection, Fox Group Legal; David King, senior product manager of Content ID, YouTube; Michael Seibel, CEO, Justin.tv; and Yangbin Wang, CEO, Vobile. In this post, you’ll find the livestream, along with live coverage and links to exclusive video and post-game analysis.
Showtime to Launch Animated Dexter Web Series; Early Cuts is a forthcoming 12 part series premiering on Oct. 25 on Sho.com. (emailed…
DivX (s DIVX) announced today that for the first time in the U.S., major Hollywood movies will be available for download in…
At Comic-Con (or as I like to call it, “the most wonderful time of the year”) over the weekend I got the…
Thriller Gets 28M Views Since Jackson’s Death; copies of the groundbreaking music video rack up the playcounts, according to Visible Measures. (company…
Warner Bros. Does Burn-to-Order DVDs for Classics; consumers can choose from 150 flicks never before released on DVD. Once ordered, a DVD…
Warner Brothers went all out in its online video outreach for Watchmen, setting loose two months ago viral clips that gave fans…
Turns out there was some NewTeeVee-ish news that came out of the New York Comic-Con last weekend. Our sister publication The Apple…
There are dark days ahead for the studio behind The Dark Knight. Warner Bros. (s TWX) announced today that it would be…
Big names in media, technology and retailing are banding together to form a Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) that promises to make…
Somewhere between standard cartoon strips and full-blown animated work lies what’s known as the “motion comic.” This emerging style of entertainment is…
TheWB.com doesn’t want you to give up on it yet. The site is adding old favorites and new online series for its…
So remember when Warner Bros. said it would release all of its film titles on VOD day and date with the DVD…
Warner Bros. is trying to prop up softening DVD sales with a new strategy to promote its upcoming superhero feature film Watchmen.…
