Here's some love from Criterion. Through Monday, all of the arthouse label's titles streaming on Hulu Plus are free to everyone. There are more than 800 titles now on Hulu Plus, including quite a few that never made it to home video release. The catch: The movies come with ads, which Hulu Plus paid subscribers rarely see. Criterion says … [Read more...]
Time spent watching online video up big in 2009
Online video use has grown by as much as 50 percent in the past year, according to traffic reports for the month of May. Nielsen's VideoCensus reports that the Time Per Viewer metric was up 48.9 percent year-over-year for the month of May. The time figures out to 189 minutes of watching video streams in May, or just over three hours. Total … [Read more...]
Vongo pulls the plug, nukes your movies
The movie downloading service Vongo has to go. A notice on the site says, "We are no longer accepting new subscribers for the Vongo service." Current members will be able to use Vongo through the month of September, then it's curtains. The nasty part is, all downloaded movies in customers' possession will self-destruct at that time. Cheapskates. … [Read more...]
Their so-called ‘quarterlife’ goes online
Monday night comes the big premiere of Marshall Herskovitz's webisode series "quarterlife," about college grads facing the big bad real world. Pumped up? We thought so. Please keep reading anyway. The venues for the 8-minute show are MySpace and quarterlife.com. MySpace gets dibs, in a bid to access the social network's massive audience. "We … [Read more...]
‘The Passenger’: Antonioni’s rocky road movie
Jack Nicholson says the making of Michelangelo Antonioni's "The Passenger" was "the biggest adventure in filming I ever had in my life." That's saying plenty and probably explains why the actor did his first solo commentary for the DVD. "It's very hard for me to separate the experience of making the movie from the movie itself," he says. For the … [Read more...]
