Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. to share revenue from ads that Google places on YouTube clips from the studio’s movies.
The deal will put advertising on clips uploaded by users and by the studio itself from Lions Gate movies such as the “Saw” horror series and “Dirty [...]

If you’re anything like me and my friends—and I hope for your sake, that you are not—it can take hours to decide precisely which movie you want to go to. And that’s when you have a resource as handy as an iPhone, and all its attendant applications for checking out movie showtimes.

 
For one, there’s Jeff [...]

A man opens a “spiritual business” where people call to get issues off their chests.
A successful life coach who preaches selfishness and greed ruins the lives of those around him.
And a divorced woman gives questionable advice on her “chocolate powered relationship recovery” talk show.
These scripted shows are among the 40 short Web films, written and [...]

A major Hollywood studio and online search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching customers.
 
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a unit of Sony Corp, said it plans to make the Will Smith action [...]

Sony announced Thursday that it will launch a movie download service for the PlayStation 3 this summer in the U.S. market.
The movie-themed announcement came from Kazuo Hirai, who is the head of Sony’s video game unit. Hirai said the service will be offered in Japan and Europe at later dates. Further details on the service [...]

Movieset, a site for film producers to post behind-the-scenes footage, has raised $2 million from Rho Capital, according to NewTeeVee. The Vancouver, Canada-based site houses outtakes and the like?items that usually whet fans’ appetites as extras on a DVD. The company hopes to take advantage of film marketing budgets migrating towards online.

YouTube–that’s the first name in Internet video. Apple’s iTunes might turn up second.
For start-ups in Internet video, it can be a tough sell to prove a new market. But a handful of upstarts tried their hand at an elevator pitch here Tuesday at the Under the Radar Conference, a one-day confab for Web start-ups. Four [...]

 
Josh Catone over at ReadWriteWeb has an interesting suggestion for Warner Bros. to get folks interested in the upcoming superhero feature, Watchmen: Take a page from Trent Reznor’s book. The Nine Inch Nails front man has been experimenting with innovative distribution and marketing schemes ever since his band said farewell to Universal Music, giving away [...]

 
I spent part of the last few days watching NetFlix movies on my TV set. NetFlix has long allowed members to rent movies on DVDs and, since January, has enabled Windows users to watch them on a PC.
The movies I watched came through my broadband Internet connection directly to my TV, thanks to a new [...]

The six major Hollywood studios have won a $111 million (€72 million) judgment for copyright infringement against the shut-down file-sharing Web site TorrentSpy.com.
The judgment, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, fined the operators of the Web site, Valence Media LLC, $30,000 (€19,500) per violation for nearly 3,700 illegal movie and TV show downloads.
The Motion [...]