Twentieth Century Fox will start to sell movies including “X-Men: The Last Stand” and TV shows like “24″ from Web sites owned by parent News Corp. in the company’s first step in the online movie market.
Fox Interactive Media said it will begin to sell movies and shows on the Direct2Drive download site, owned by Fox’s IGN Entertainment, by October. The programs can be viewed on personal computers as well as Windows portable media devices.
The programs will be made available for purchase from News Corp.’s popular online teen hangout MySpace.com shortly thereafter, Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinsohn said in an interview.
Twentieth Century Fox now sells its films to download services like CinemaNow and Movielink, but it has not invested in the Web sites, unlike other studios including Walt Disney Co., Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Brothers.
