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February 12, 2007

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Lionsgate roars its way onto iTunes

Posted Feb. 12, ’07, 8:16 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iTunes » iTunes Store

LionsgateWell, it sure took them long enough. The rumors of Lionsgate movies appearing on iTunes started way back in August of last year, in which the studio president Steve Beeks predicted that they’d show up by the end of the year. Just a little bit off, I guess. I wonder if Steve J. had them in the dog house for leaking news of the store.

The studio has officially joined iTunes today, with launch titles including T2: Judgment Day, LA Story, and The Blair Witch Project. More films like Rambo, Total Recall and The Boys from Brazil are due to arrive in the coming weeks.

Glad as I am to see another studio sign on, Lionsgate is still among the smaller film studios. Still no news from the likes of Sony, Fox, and Warner Bros. And whiel the Apple press release brags that Lionsgate has a catalog of over 10,000 films, that number pathetically dwarfs the total number of movies available at iTunes, which now rests at over 400. If there’s one thing that’ll raise iTunes’s movie sales it’s selection, selection, selection.

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