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Paramount Movies Coming To iTunes Today? [Updated: True]

The Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required) claims that CEO Steve Jobs may announce today the availability of Paramount Pictures' catalog, which includes titles such as "Forrest Gump," "Mission: Impossible," and "Star Trek." However, it does not appear as though new releases would be included in the deal (yet).

Paramount decided that by only providing catalog titles, which will be sold at $9.99, it would get most of the benefit from the download service and less of the hassle from retailers, say people familiar with the situation. They reasoned that catalog titles will provide more revenue than new releases.

The deal is an important step for Paramount's parent company Viacom, which came under attack last year for its lack of digital vision.



Update: Steve Jobs has announced during his keynote that Paramount's catalog is indeed being added to the iTunes Store.

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67 months ago
inching closer and closer... i'm so excited!
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67 months ago
Geez Wall Street Journal... take all the fun out of Macworld, would ya?
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67 months ago
ok.. people its no fun if EVERYTHING has been GUESSED before the keynote. with all this blind shooting, we are bound to hit everything, but whats the fun in that?
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67 months ago
any news on a European movie / television store for iTunes would be good :)
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67 months ago

ok.. people its no fun if EVERYTHING has been GUESSED before the keynote. with all this blind shooting, we are bound to hit everything, but whats the fun in that?


Oh, I'm sure we've missed some stuff. For instance, we haven't gotten ANY reliable recon on any Mac stuff. I guarantee you an iMac or something is going to be updated today :)
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67 months ago

Paramount decided that by only providing catalog titles, which will be sold at $9.99, it would get most of the benefit from the download service and less of the hassle from retailers, say people familiar with the situation.


In other words, money for (practically) nothing. :rolleyes:
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67 months ago
Seems a bit dumb if new releases aren't included in the deal...
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67 months ago
I am excited about what The Wall Street Journal and the rest of us don't yet know.

I am getting my hopes up for one big surprise! And it's only hours away :)
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67 months ago

ok.. people its no fun if EVERYTHING has been GUESSED before the keynote. with all this blind shooting, we are bound to hit everything, but whats the fun in that?



But we won't know what we hit or missed for another three hours. Who knows maybe they won't preview iWork '07, of course then again maybe Bill Gates will come on stage and announce they just aquired Apple, and Microsoft is indeed the leader in the Digital Music Player Market ahead of schedule, and Vista will be delayed for the consumers for another month due to critical updates.
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67 months ago

ok.. people its no fun if EVERYTHING has been GUESSED before the keynote.


Of course I could have avoided MacRumors, ThinkSecret, Macintouch etc if I had wanted everything to be a surprise. ;-)

The speculation is part of the fun for me. :)
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