Financial Post says
By every account, the release late last year of Margin Call, a motion picture starring Kevin Spacey centred on a fictional Wall Street bank brought low by reckless bets during the financial crisis, was a smash success.
The distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., picked up the title for US$1-million at the Sundance Film Festival, releasing the picture months later with many traditional theatrical partners.
Collider says:
In a move that finally gives the Xbox 360 a bit of an edge over the Playstation 3 as an all-encompassing entertainment device, a whole slew of international TV partners have been revealed by Microsoft to be providing services to users of the popular video game system. The new deal allows for channels like SyFy, Bravo, Epix, Crackle, TMZ, UFC, Verizon FiOS, ESPN and the morning news program The Today Show to be available through Xbox LIVE. However, the real cream of the crop comes from Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand service and (drumroll please) HBO GO to be available through the game system, but only in the United States at the moment. Personally, I can’t wait to be able to watch older HBO shows like Six Feet Under and The Sopranos thanks to this new deal. As for the rest of the world, there are plenty more TV partners for Xbox LIVE coming your way, and you can check out the full press release with the list of new partners.
I love this idea of having movies in my living room instead of going to the theaters but they can;t go the way that the US providers did by slapping a $50 price tag on it. Furthermore, I see this as a huge step towards pirates having the ability to provide new movies in high quality much sooner than they can now.