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Redbox’s kiosks are taking business away from Netflix. It’s not that surprising since those kiosks very much serve the hits-driven head of the Long Tail consumer market and so are going to be attractive to the pedestrian traffic that their placement in McDonald’s restraurants and outside Walgreen’s stores draws in.
Online/On-Demand
You can now download and view movies being distributed by Cinetic Rights Managment on your Vudu set-top box.
Gigantic Group is launching an online streaming service that gives customers unlimited viewing access for three days for $2.99. The first movie being released is the documentary Motherland. The interesting part is that Gigantic can block the movies they release from being available in areas where the films are playing in actual theaters. That’s kind of a big deal and could go a long way in making distributors more comfortable with the arrangement since they don’t have to worry about angering theater owners.
Chris Thilk 