A proposed list of initial films to be available for the it's-coming-pretty-soon iTunes movie store has been posted on iPodHub.net. The article claims that the following titles will roll out within one year of the service's launch:From Walt Disney Pictures: James and the Giant Peach, Pocahontas, The Lion King, Aladdin, Chicken Little, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Sky High, Ice Princess, National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
From Disney/Pixar: Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 (?), A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars.
From Miramax: Cold Mountain, The Hours, Chicago, Cinderella Man, Scary Movie 1, 2, 3 and 4.
From Touchstone Pictures: The Royal Tenenbaums, Pearl Harbor, The Sixth Sense (with Hollywood Pictures), Unbreakable, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Shanghai Noon, Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, King Arthur, Hidalgo, Open Range, Signs, Reign of Fire.
Lion's Gate Entertainment: American Psycho, Dogma, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Open Water, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, The Punisher, Fahrenheit 9/11, Crash, Alone in the Dark, Hostel, Saw 1 and 2.
No word on a reason for the proposed one year rollout. iPodHub.net also suspects a name change for the iTunes Music Store once the movie download feature is introduced. Anyway, I'm sure we'll have all the details once September 12 hits.
1. This will be interesting to see if it really pans out. Hollywood has been really fighting and resisting Apple because of its differences on what the pricing for its new material should be over its older stuff.
If this does happen, it means that the studios don't have a lot of confidence in the deals they have been making up to this point.
Posted at 12:50AM on Sep 8th 2006 by Gary Bourgeault (bizofshowbiz.com)