With the ink on the Netflix press release barely dry, Amazon-owned Lovefilm have responded by announcing an immediate price cut to their service.
The long-established US movie streaming service Netflix has finally launched in the UK, and will be serving up unlimited film streaming for just £5.99 a month.
Billed as a “historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010,” Life In A Day is a 90 minute movie created from user-submitted videos.
Google have swished back the red curtains to reveal their Android digital movie rental store for UK users today.
Amazon has bought up the DVD and online movie rental business, LoveFilm.
In a slightly complicated turn of events, LoveFilm first bought Amazon’s UK and German DVD rental business back in 2008 in a deal that saw Amazon becoming the largest shareholder of LoveFilm.
YouTube has launched an interesting new project called “Life in a Day,” which intends to document one day as seen through the eyes of movie makers, camcorder warriors and mobile phone footage freaks all around the world.
The bulletin boards on our sister site urban75 have a good reputation for answering obscure questions posed by contributors, but rarely does a question get answered as comprehensively as when a poster enquired, “How are digital movies distributed?”
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was an app most awesome on the iPhone, so it’s great to see that Android users can now get a slice of the action, with the Android app offering even more features.
To show off the HD video shooting abilities of their Pentax K-7 digital SLR cameras, Pentax commissioned two production companies to knock out a couple of entertaining short films.
Shot entirely at night in Denver, Colorado, the all-action Uncle Jack movie was created by film-maker Jamin Winans and Futuristic Films and features a mad clown, a crazed woman, magic pills, gunshots and lots of driving (sounds a bit like a night out in Brixton to us).
Star Wars fans. To be honest, they scare us a bit with their weird obsession with a series of children’s films that were cheesy to start off with and certainly haven’t got any better with age.
We could understand it if the target for their undying love was for quality, genre-defining sci-film classics like Blade Runner or 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Star Wars we just don’t get.
The Apple iPhone 3GS already offers some fairly basic video trimming tools, but Nexvio’s iPhone editing app looks a far slicker proposition.
The $8 app lets users add titles and video effects, fades and transitions (we’re rather intrigued by ‘the ‘wipe bottom soft’ option), re-order clips and finally stitch stills and movies together to create your very own showreel, ready to be viewed onscreen or shovelled on to YouTube.
You know the feeling: you’re desperate to make a call or get online to check out the progress of Cardiff City’s vital Welsh Cup match, and your phone hits you with the dreaded ‘no signal message.
It seems that ‘richfofo‘ on YouTube knows the feeling too, and has cunningly compiled a series of clips from no less than 66 movies revealing that dreaded zero bar moment.
Click on to watch the movie. Oh, and delicate, sensitive flowers be warned: there’s a few naughty words in there.
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