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Both Sony and Disney are among the first studios testing this new service, which makes its debut in South Korea, reports the Wall Street Journal. The move is being done to help curb piracy overseas by allowing people to rent movies a few weeks after they're released in theaters. For example, Django Unchained was released just three weeks after its debut in theaters across the country. Disney's Wreck-it Ralph, and Brave are also part of this new trial service.

""I really think there is a need here. Simplicity, efficiency and fun," he said. "There is a lot of power in being able to push coupons, updates to loyalty cards, tickets and payment options right to the lock screen of a consumer's device. Geo-locating passes is an incredibly powerful feature of the Passbook platform. Nothing could be simpler than shopping at a mall and automatically seeing the passes that are relevant to what's around me: 'Oh yeah, I forgot I had that 15 percent off coupon at Bose. I might as well stop in.' " That's exactly the sort of practical perk that Passbook's early adopting brands seem to love. Online movie ticket service Fandango was a Passbook launch partner, and the company president tells Adweek that the brand's iPhone app downloads skyrocketed with the debut of Passbook. While mobile tickets were already available through the Fandango app for select theaters, Passbook simply made them easier for customers to use. When you arrive at the theater before the movie, your mobile ticket pops up on your iPhone lock screen. Swipe the icon to open the ticket in Passbook (without even having to unlock your phone), and you're good to go."

4D movie theaters in the next 5 years! 

Seats near the back of the theater are reserved for people that want to tweet throughout the show. Aim is to draw in a younger, techsavvy crowd

donates some profit to food banks in local areas in which the tickets are sold, uses facebook to promote the film on small independent theaters pages

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$30 movie rentals seem expensive, but make more sense when you take into consideration how much it costs a family to go to the theater. The $30 would be for premium movies that have recently left theaters but not on DVD yet. OR you could go to the dollar theater.

"Beginning later this month with Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller "Prometheus," the studio plans to offer high-definition versions of its films for sale at newly lowered prices about three weeks before making the movies available on discs and through video-on-demand services, studio executives said in interviews."

Besides the typical $1 to $2 broker fee, one of the factors limiting the growth of the online movie-ticket selling business has been its complexity: The two dominant online players in the domestic market, MovieTickets.com and Fandango, don't have deals with every theater chain, meaning consumers often have to visit multiple selling platforms to find a convenient location and showtime for the movie they want to see.

Supreme court case is in 11 days. Even if Aereo loses there's the "home" version - Tablo - to haunt Pay TV. It's only a matter of time... http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/nuvyyo-launches-tablo-air-tv-dvr-targeting-cord-cutters/#!EeaKZ

description of the new interactive store for Disney, includes talking mirror and movie theater.

daily 7.15 theatre is tailor made to the one-person audience audience member selects their own journy or lets theatre group take control

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