Used to be that Tuesday was the day that Apple news hit the streets, but with the release of the 8-core Macs last week, and the announcement this morning that MGM would be joining the ranks of movie studios at the iTunes Store, it would appear that Wednesday is the new Tuesday.
Among the films now showing up on iTunes are a number of classics including Rocky, The Great Train Robbery, Dances with Wolves, Inherit the Wind, and Mad Max (which, in retrospect, should have suggested Mel Gibson’s instability years ago). And, of course, more titles are slated to be added in the coming weeks from MGM as well as from its subsidiaries, Orion Pictures and United Artists. The addition of MGM bumps the iTunes catalog over 500 movies, which still pales next to Netflix’s approximately 70,000.
MGM is the third major studio to join iTunes after Paramount and Disney. It’s worth pointing out that MGM is now owned in part by Sony, who also owns Columbia Pictures. Could Columbia be the next big addition to iTunes? I’d suspect that the rate of studios joining will only accelerate from here on out, as none of them want to be the last holdout.
[via Playlist]
I must be getting old ... Rocky and Dances with Wolves are classics?
Ha, ha, classics. That is corporate speak for let's see if we can get some extra money for old stuff. You don't get any new stuff.
Isn't the great train robbery public domain? I could have swore I downloaded it from some government library site last week.
@Nawid, I think you are thinking of the 1903 Porter film, not the 1979 Crichton film.