There are many movie distributors now that sell their movies on iTunes and VOD at the same time they are in theaters or even before. Last night I was watching Fallon and the actress he had on is in a new movie that comes out in November, but you can get in on iTunes and VOD now.
I think one of the reasons that they don't put them online is that many of these older movies that are just sitting there collecting dust act as tax write offs for the studios and they are more valuable as a tax write off than if they put out a streaming service and made a few dollars off of them.
HBO may be changing the entire cable game when they go live with their streaming service....so long as it doesn't suck.
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