“Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger on Tuesday said the company sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple Computer Inc’s iTunes online music store in the first week Disney movies were offered,” Gina Keating reports for Reuters.
“Iger told a conference of analysts the company expects to take in $50 million in added revenue during the first year of the iTunes movie download program, which was unveiled by Apple on Sept. 12,” Keating reports.
Keating reports, “Disney last week became the first movie studio to offer movie downloads through iTunes. The company placed 75 titles, such as ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl’ and ‘National Treasure,’ on the Web site.”
Keating reports, “Iger said the number of films on iTunes would increase as Disney clears the broadcast rights to move them to the Web… Iger said Disney stood to benefit from further content sales through its Apple partnership when the computer company rolls out a device, code-named iTV, in the first quarter of 2007 that allows consumers to stream movies, music, photos, podcasts and TV shows from the Web to home media systems.”
Full article here.
See Disney movies via iTunes Store here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin P.” for the heads up.]
You can bet all of the other studios just took notice of this news. Just wait until Apple’s “iTV” is available.
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wow, didn’t expect that much in the first week
Shovel in the moolah.
MW-french–Hahahahahahaha
yep no surprise here. Movie downloads on iTunes will rock…and next year will be crazy
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Get my broker on the phone…I’m ordeiring some Disney stock.
I wonder how unbox is doing. I also wonder if there are naysaying studios out there that are regretting thier choice of delivery.
Whoa! That impresses me. I’ve had trouble viewing previews on the iTunes 7, so haven’t purchased anything yet.
BA HAHAHAHHhahahah
I wonder – BAHAHAHHA – how many – hahahah – downloads Amazons UnBox service has had?
So sad….
bandwagon? anyone?
FP
Magic Word hit as in…home run
GOGO APPLE SMACKDOWN! Wonder what Amazon sold (not rented) in their first week?
Soon in the news: Hollywood flocks to iTunes.
No one will sit on the fence, certainly not as long as the music labels and then TV studios did. This time the join in rush will start sooner.
1 Million in a week? That’s freaking amazing.
Dvorak, where art thou?
Here come all the other movie studios. I have my ear to the ground and hear them all running to Apple to have them be the next studio added.
so… Pirates of the Caribbean has been downloaded 100.000 times?
cool.
(LOL)
Hmm. I thought this movie download thing was destined for failure? Where are you nay-sayers now? Hmm?
Be sure to play the other side of the argument now: “Mac sheeple will buy anything Steve blesses.”
— If you build it, they will come.
Wonder what the top seller was…?
Wow! I mean, just…wow! I just didn’t expect that many downloads so quickly! I still maintain, though, that if there was some sort of loan program/subscription a la Netflix would be more successful.
That’s only an average of $8.00 per move. Most are more expensive than that. Is Apple actually getting a chunk of the sales price? If so, Wall Street better up the earnings estimates for the next couple of quarters.
This proves again that nowadays Apple can sell anything.
Davis doesnt get it.
I bought A Bug’s Life. It’s a small price to pay to help the cause.
I bought “Pirates” on Thursday just to see what the quality is like but my Comcrap connection has been bad lately and keeps interrupting the download. The preview looked great, though.
Can you burn the iTunes-purchased movies to DVD?
I think it’s great that they sold so many in one week (though we all must admit that most of it is out of plain old curiosity), but unless I am allowed to burn them to DVD, then forget it.
(I don’t want to have to pay $300 for an “iTV”. That’s a significant part of my entertainment system!)
$8 would be Disney’s passthrough…
Top Movies:
1. Pirates (of course)
2. National Treasure (saw it and can’t imagine why anyone would want to own it)
3. The Wild
4. Hitchhiker’s Guide
5. Gone in 60 Seconds
6. Remember the Titans
7. Good Will Hunting (thank god Ben Affleck gets residuals)
8. The Incredibles
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Flightplan
Watch how fast the rest of the movie companies join up now. Keep going Apple
Does this mean that iTunes movie downloads, unlike Amazon’s abortion, actually works?
Tic toc, tic toc. How long before the rest of the studios come flocking to Apple, while in Redmond the bald one shrieks “Flocking Apple” with each chair tossed.