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11:30AM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray, you should probably do yourself a favour and hold off until next month. Because during November, Warner Bros are going to donate $1 from every sale of 31 specially marked Blu-ray films, including Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Hangover. More »
Buy Warner Blu-Ray Movies In Movember
11:30AM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray, you should probably do yourself a favour and hold off until next month. Because during November, Warner Bros are going to donate $1 from every sale of 31 specially marked Blu-ray films, including Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Hangover. More » 
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Holy Crap, They’re Making A Lego Movie!
8:50PM Danny Allen | Variety reports that Warner Bros is developing a Lego movie that will be “a family comedy that will mix live action and animation”. An “action adventure set in a Lego world”. More »
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Zack Snyder To Host Watchmen Screening Over BD Live
2:20AM Mark Wilson | Warner Bros is super, super smart about marketing their Blu-ray discs. First they had Christopher Nolan host a community screening for The Dark Knight. Now director Zack Snyder will do the same for Watchmen. More »
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The Watchmen Blu-ray Will Sync with Facebook
12:20AM Mark Wilson | The Watchmen Blu-ray will feature a normal and director’s cut of the film, a splitscreen “Maximum Movie Mode” that shares the screen between Zack Snyder and the film, plus it…connects to Facebook? More »
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3:30PM Nick Broughall | In the 12 months since Blu-ray emerged victorious over HD DVD in the battle for high-definition format supremacy, BD-Live has gone from having huge potential as a key sales and marketing feature to becoming a footnote on the spine of a handful of Blu-ray movies. And despite the fact that some studios like Disney are actively pursuing the technology, its implementation still feels like a random collection of ideas that lacks cohesion and focus. And sadly, it doesn’t really look like things are going to change any time soon. More »
Will Blu-Ray Untap The Potential Of BD-Live?
3:30PM Nick Broughall | In the 12 months since Blu-ray emerged victorious over HD DVD in the battle for high-definition format supremacy, BD-Live has gone from having huge potential as a key sales and marketing feature to becoming a footnote on the spine of a handful of Blu-ray movies. And despite the fact that some studios like Disney are actively pursuing the technology, its implementation still feels like a random collection of ideas that lacks cohesion and focus. And sadly, it doesn’t really look like things are going to change any time soon. More »
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Dark Knight’s Chris Nolan Event Shows BD-Live Is Not Quite Ready
5:00AM Jason Chen | Chris Nolan just hosted the live, on-demand substitute for a Dark Knight commentary track last night. So why was I left unsatisfied after squinting at my TV for two and a half hours? More »
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Warner Bros. to Offer DivX Downloads
11:00PM John Mahoney | Already the format of choice for, ahem, somewhat clandestine distribution of digital video files, DivX has now officially partnered with Warner Bros. to distribute video in the format. Sony beat WB to the punch by about 9 months, and we’ll have to wait even longer for Warner to come around to HD DivX, which won’t be ready until September of next year. SD downloads are expected to become available this month. Full details follow. More »
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Rumour: The Dark Knight Could Coax Warner into BD-Live Release
3:00AM Mark Wilson | Warner Bros, along with plenty others, have been sceptical about BD-Live. WTF is BD-Live, you ask? It’s that feature in the Blu-ray spec allowing, among other internet-based functionality, people seated on couches across the US to watch movies simultaneously and chat about them. Now rumour has it that the company is considering The Dark Knight as their first BD-Live disc release for the coming holiday season. We can’t wait for two and a half straight hours of: More »
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Warner Bros. Delays Dark Knight Piracy for 38 Hours, Deems it Success
2:50AM Mark Wilson | Warner Bros. didn’t want to lose one penny off of the precious early box office gross for The Dark Knight (one that traditionally favours Hollywood in the split over movie theaters), so they reportedly spent 6 months developing an anti-piracy plan to keep the film off filesharing sites for as long as possible. And through a highly regimented flow of tracking and distribution that included staggering reel delivery to individual theatres (so that no one had the entire film for too long), Warner Bros. was able to delay online piracy for a whole 38 hours. Their president of distribution explains why this was considered a success: More »
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