20th Century Fox to bring movies to iTunes?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 3, 2007 at 7:25pm
Silicon Alley Insider says that News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox studio is talking with Apple (AAPL) about selling its movies through iTunes, reports Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield, who predicts a deal will be done early next year perhaps in time for January’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
So far only Disney has allowed Apple to sell its new movies at the same time its DVDs are released, while MGM, Viacom’s Paramount and Lionsgate (LGF) have partial deals. Silicon Alley Insider says that Hollywood has been wary of selling through Apple for several reasons. “It’s worried about giving CEO Steve Jobs too much control over their product; it’s worried about pissing off Wal-Mart and other physical retailers, who don’t want to see digital copies sold for less than the discs they sell; and it’s been haggling over price,” the article adds.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
dave Says:
Another pointless article. It wouldn’t surprise me, or anybody else, if Apple was currently “in talks” with every major movie studio. And as for his “predicting” a signed deal…
Posted on December 03, 2007