December 22, 2005
Watch a movie on your phone 10 days after its release. The plot thickens!
Emily annouced a few days ago that Italian cell phone company 3G had won the right to distribute feature films on cellphones just 10 days after they premiere in theaters. They are planning to offer their customers the ability to download Memoirs of a Geisha directly to their phones as early as December 27. But La Repubblica explains that film theatre associations won't have it that way. They threaten to remove the movies from their screens, just like they did with The Interpreter. But the President of the ANEM (the National Association of Multiplex Film Theatres), Carlo Bernaschi explains: "We have just received a message by the Eagle. They guarantee that all their movies will be available to 3 only four months after the theatrical release."
Right after that, distributor Eagle Pictures declared that it doesn't have the right for the "wireless" distribution of Memoirs of a Geisha nor of The new world, by Terrence Malick, another film that the distribution company had already "sold" to 3 for a cell phone release.
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