“As Apple nears a public rollout of its movie rental service for iTunes, the company has reached an agreement with Lions Gate Entertainment to deliver its content online, the movie studio’s executives recently disclosed during a financial earnings conference call,” Ryan Katz reports for Think Secret.
MacDailyNews Take: Whoops.
Katz continues, “Lions Gate’s chief executive, Jon Feltheimer, said that the entertainment company had already reached digital delivery deals with CinemaNow, Movielink, and iTunes, and that terms were being ironed out with two other digital distributers, according to a transcript of the call. The content deals were first reported by paidContent. In mid-July, Think Secret reported that Apple had worked out deals with Walt Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros., and was pursuing other studios as well for its iTunes movie rental service. At the time, sources said Apple was gearing up to announce the new initiative at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which took place last week. In early August, however, Apple elected to postpone. the service’s roll-out until September.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mango” for the heads up.]
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Someone’s no longer an exec!
Karl,
I hereby grant you the no-Bell prize for being the 1st poster!
As punishment, there will be no OS X 10.6 Lion. It will be called Ocelot, instead.
Mac Genius,
It is just as well Apple skipping the ‘Lion’ monniker, what with the current Dell laptop battery scandal, and all!
So, now we know there is life after fame. Mango now spends his (her?) days surfing Mac rumors sites.
Mango & J-Lo:
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Steve should fire this guy!
That was no “Whoops”! That was flat out ignorance.
Steve should fire the CEO of Lion’s Gate Entertainment? Neat trick!
Not only that, they are ‘international’ … from their web site: Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,Lions Gate Studios combines state of the art studio facilities with exceptional customer service.
They rent out their gear so you can make your movie … indies pay up front, I guess. They did Descent, Crank, Saw, and a few even more forgettable films.
If anyone needs an explanation for Steve’s look and demeanor at WWDC, these negotiations is it. It seemed to me that Steve was peeved. He had been working his ass off to prepare the roll-out of the movie deals, and perhaps a media center product, and just couldn’t pull it off in time. Conquering the home entertainment market is what excites Steve these day’s. If he had had this stuff for the keynote, he would have been his normal energized self.
Damn lol. Us Canucks cannot hold our tongues!
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First ATI, then Time Canada and now Lion’s Gate Films.
We’re such polite sieves
Sure it was a “slip.”
“Movies coming to iTunes”
Rebranding time for the iTMS name?
I just pray they don’t sign a deal with Vivid. Then I won’t be accessing iTunes/iPrOn. There’s enough places to find that smutt anyway.
-recovering addict
MDN MW: bad: PrOn is bad.
Time for the iMedia store and app………
Rebranding time for the iTMS name?
I would be surprised if they do. What would be the point? Why would Apple throw away all the market recognition they’ve built up? They’re selling TV shows and short films without having a different name, why would adding feature film rental motivate them more? Unless you’re just thinking, iTunes Media Store, in which case, who will really care about that name change?
“Someone’s no longer an exec!”
Why? This doesn’t hurt Lions Gate at all.
“They did Descent, Crank, Saw, and a few even more forgettable films.”
You mean forgettable films like Crash?
Forgettable? How the hell is Saw forgettable? I’m still pissing my pants over the ending.
JIGSAW WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME!!
If you are pissing over the ending of the first, wait till you see Saw 2.
Ampar:
I have said all along that the iTunes Music Store name does not reflect the actual content. iTunes Media Store makes more sense nowadays.
But they will probably come up with some marketing name where they merge a few words to create a new one, and then put an “i” in front of it.
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HELP HELP HELP
I need help immediatly i deleted my origanal folder for my movies and pictures now i can’t view any of my movies can i recover them please someone HELPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An alarming number of Lions Gate movies end with the good guys dying off. I wonder if their CEO’s share that trait…
“If anyone needs an explanation for Steve’s look and demeanor at WWDC, these negotiations is it. It seemed to me that Steve was peeved. He had been working his ass off to prepare the roll-out of the movie deals, and perhaps a media center product, and just couldn’t pull it off in time. Conquering the home entertainment market is what excites Steve these day’s. If he had had this stuff for the keynote, he would have been his normal energized self.”
Except the WWDC isn’t the place for consumer oriented product announcements.
MacWorld might be, except that in recent years, Apple has taken to sending invitations to special presentations specifically for whatever new thing it is that they’re annoucing. Anymore, Apple dosn’t wait for special occasions, they make their own.
If you want peeved, look back at the way SJ was at the 2005 MacWorld. What was Jobs “And one more thing..” for that MacWorld?
The iPod Shuffle.
The Shuffle. Yeah, riiiiight. That really knocked everyone’s socks off.
I still find that presentation un-fricken believable, and I watched it live at an Apple store. I’m convinced the Mini was originally intended to be Jobs “And one more thing..” announcement until news about it leaked out a few weeks prior.
What should have been his “And one more thing..” was instead delivered in the most casual, offhanded way I have ever seen Jobs intro a new product. Almost totally without enthusiasim. It was like he could have cared less.