The world’s most popular video website is getting into the pay-per-view business.
Google Inc.’s YouTube announced today that it will make a total of five movies from the 2010 and 2009 Sundance film festivals available for online rental. It’s the first time that YouTube has given content providers the option to provide video for a fee, [...]

Epix, the “Hulu of Movies” joint venture between Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM studios, just added a new distribution partner. Mediacom Communications, the seventh largest cable TV provider in the U.S., will join Verizon’s FiOS and Cox Communications as outlets for the premium entertainment venture in April 2010.
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We recently wrote about Epix, the movie and entertainment streaming network that works across your TV, computer, and mobile phone. Jointly backed by Lionsgate, MGM and Paramount, Epix is launching its service today with 150 titles, with 3,000 more movies, concerts and shows to be added in the next year.

Epix says that eventually it will be able to provide [...]

I’ve been to a ton of panels on the Future of Web Series Production, but most of them take place at conferences like Digital Hollywood, which are dedicated to new media. On Sunday, October 11th, independent film organization Film Independent (FIND) got into the act at the FIND Filmmaker Forum with a panel entitled “Going Online: New [...]

Sure, you can now download movies straight from iTunes to your iPhone, but those cost money and consume valuable storage space. Sometimes it’s faster, cheaper, and more convenient to stream them, whether from your own PC, online storage, or even an on-demand service.
Here’s a look at three such options for streaming the big screen to your [...]

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Fox Television has a new digital production arm called 15 Gigs and they just recently unveiled what they have been up to - a new dramedy set in a strip club called ‘Tease’. 
The pilot will soon debut on the web as a series of 3 webisodes and the creators of the show hope that it [...]

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, some Hollywood stars are going online to be very, very sincere.
In short videos, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Channing Tatum, Will Arnett and Cheech and Chong, among others, are re-imagining some of the films they love, with a twist and shout-out.
“It’s kind of like watching a movie and [...]

When motion pictures were invented at the end of the 19th century, most films were shorter than a minute, because of the limitations of technology. A little more than a hundred years later when Web videos were introduced, they were also cut short, but for social as well as technical reasons.
Video creators, by and large, [...]

The Web is full of user-generated video, but for Sanjay Raman’s tastes most of it is too bland and poorly produced to actually watch.
So last year he launched Howcast (www.howcast.com), a video-sharing website dedicated to do-it-yourself content with former Google colleagues Jason Liebman and Dan Blackman.
While at Google the three Howcast co-founders noticed how popular [...]