Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s 2929 Entertainment company and director Steven Soderbergh will use p2p as a distribution vehicle in their new joint venture.
They plan to make digital movies for simultaneous release on tv, in cinemas and on DVD. But the files will also be available online, Cuban has told p2pnet
“We’ll deliver most likely from sites like Movielink and CinemaNow, and we’ll charge a price that’s more expensive on release date and then come down in price in what would be normal release windows,” he says.
“We're delivery agnostic.”
2929’s documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room was released on HDNet and in cinemas at the same time and Cuban says a movie made under the venture with Soderbergh will be available from Day One “however people want to get it”.
But, he told p2pnet, “You’ll pay a premium for getting it early at home and not at the theater. We also will share some of the premium with theaters.
“If consumers wait the two or three months after release, the price will come down to traditional DVD and download pricing.”
Cuban says the partners will use Travis Kalanick’s Red Swoosh.
Kalanick is co-founder of the now-defunct p2p network Scour.net and ceo of redswoosh.com.
“User signs up for movie trailer, entering his email address, and clicking OKAY,” says Kalanick on the site.
“User goes about his tasks, and then receives an email (SUBJECT: Your Spiderman trailer has arrived) when movie trailer video clip has been downloaded to his machine in an invisible cache. He clicks on the link in the email and gets a DVD-quality movie trailer without a hitch.”
Will Cuban, Wagner and Soderbergh movies be locked up with DRM?
They haven’t yet decided, says Cuban, who recently agreed to finance the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) action in the Grokster v MGM case.
why the hell do these vanish from the news admin section?
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Do you have the bottom section of the page blocked with adblock? Krell was having a similar problem with the blocking.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
No ad block here, these threads only get spawned when you publish the story.Originally Posted by The Hunter
The story though dissapears from the admin section so I can't see it on the list of current news on the homepage.
the boys must have pulled the wrong lever...sent a pm
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Who knows as this has been a wierd night.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
I got it up so my night is a bit less weird :D
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In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Wow! Someone in the movie industry actually has a brain and is using it. (Cuban, you're on the right track)
Hopefully they don't screw it up with massive DRM or exorbitant pricing. A higher price on opening day is understandable as long as it isn't unreasonable. My definition of unreasonable is anything over 1 1/2 times normal cost.
But, this is a step in the right direction. And as the bugs are worked out with trial and error, I can see this as another moneymaker for the movie industry...just as they discovered how lucrative VHS was even after they tried their hardest to squash it.
...I like the new site format BTW.
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