Get more into movies on YouTube
Here at YouTube, we can’t get enough video. When it comes to movies, we’re just as excited: YouTube hosts a great selection of movie trailers and showcases a variety of independent films in our Screening Room; last year we announced the ability to rent movies from Sundance Film Festival; and this year at Sundance we premiered Life in a Day, a documentary film about a single day on earth filmed by thousands of YouTube users, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
Today, we’re announcing another step in our goal to bring more of the video you love to YouTube: the addition of thousands of full-length feature films from major Hollywood studios available to rent in the US at youtube.com/movies. In addition to the hundreds of free movies available on the site since 2009, you will be able to find and rent some of your favorite films. From memorable hits and cult classics like Caddyshack, Goodfellas, Scarface, and Taxi Driver to blockbuster new releases like Inception, The King’s Speech, Little Fockers, The Green Hornet and Despicable Me. Movies are available to rent at industry standard pricing, and can be watched with your YouTube account on any computer. The new titles will begin appearing later today and over the coming weeks to www.youtube.com/movies, so keep checking back.
But your movie experience won't begin and end with a single film. With 35 hours of video uploaded every minute to YouTube, there’s a sea of content that can add to your movie experience. Many movie pages feature YouTube Movie Extras -- free behind-the-scenes videos, cast interviews, parodies, clips and remixes from YouTube’s unique community of content creators. Movie pages also showcase reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, so you’ll see feedback from critics before you decide what movie to get into. Over time we'll also be adding additional videos and features to YouTube Movie Extras so that you can get even more into movies on YouTube.
Learn more about movies on YouTube or visit YouTube.com/movies to start watching now.
Camille Hearst, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "300" and Matt Darby, Product Manager, recently watched "The Matrix."
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24 comments:
What about rentals to be used on Android phones and tablets?
What about other countries? I would love to rent movies through Youtube in Estonia.
Who cares about Android. What about iOS?! :P
not available in brazil :(
No International Support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only in USA? I`m from Chile :-(
Wow! It's good. There is a movie I cannot watch instantly on Netflix but I cannot watch on YouTube for $2.99/day or $3.99 for a new movie like "The King's Speech". However, it's still expensive in compare with Netflix. With $9.99 plan, I can watch unlimited movies, TV episodes, DVD by mail. I can pause the movie for more than 24 hour.
I second that question. What good is my HD, widescreen display on my Xoom if I can't watch movies on it??
Tablets should work fine with the Flash player. But yes... would be great for support on the dedicated shiny app. ;-)
so it wont be available in other countries??
And why is this US only? I thought the reason Google didn't strike a deal with the record companies for Google Music was that it would not be party to outdated and archaic business practises? Well, what is more archaic than a business model based on geographic licenses in the internet era?
Movies should be streaming anywhere in the world with an Internt connection. US only=Fail.
Not interested in shelling out $4 a pop. I'd rather pay $8 a month for netflix or hulu plus.
Sounds like they might be onto something dude.
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and outside the USA???
Make the price comparable to Redbox and Blockbuster Express and I'll use it.
I suppose the next step will be to change the name to HuluTube. R.I.P. YouTube...
Roku channel in the future?
This is great, but I don't understand why your agreements with the studios doesn't include all the countries... It doesn't make sense to me, I want to buy but I can't. It's like "Hey, instead of selling for everybody and make A LOT of money, why don't we sell for less people and make less money?"
I want to give you money for the movies. Please, accept the money and give me movies.
As usually you forgot Spain!
Good stuff Youtube. There is a lot of useful information here, good article, thanks for your info.
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Wow!The price is so cheap! How can YouTube practically give them away like this? Surely they will go broke charging so little for them.
They should have this available on most countries. It's a hassle free of renting a movie.
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youtube very useful for my on my study, I hope this site use friendly energy, because this day International concern about green it issue, so youtube not only for human eye but support for environment too.
Even though they won't actually be free to watch, I still think it is a great idea that YouTube will be adding a much greater selection of FULL length features. In the past, even though the site has a great reputation for outstanding selection, it was still rather difficult to find a full feature on YouTube without somewhat "forced" sequential style viewing. Here's hoping too, that some of my own YouTube videos will rise in prominence and provide pertinent information to viewers.
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