Leading Digital Movie Site Offers Discount Prices for Students Nationwide on Large Selection of New and Classic Movies for Download
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct 11, 2004--Movielink, the broadband video-on-demand (VOD) service offering hundreds of movies for legal download, announced today that it has kicked off the second annual Movielink College Film Festival. For the entire month of October, students with a valid .edu e-mail address can download a movie a day for $0.99 or less at https://college.movielink.com.
''We realize that college students have tight budgets and hectic schedules,'' said Jim Ramo, CEO, Movielink. ''This festival was created as an outlet for students to view their favorite films in the comfort of their dorm rooms, anytime of the day, at a significantly reduced rate.''
Movielink has hundreds of titles available for download, including Hollywood hits, leading independent films, foreign titles and documentaries. October titles include ''Kill Bill Vol. 2,'' ''Taking Lives,'' ''13 Going on 30,'' and ''The Ladykillers,'' as well as classics such as ''On the Waterfront,'' ''Dr. Strangelove,'' ''National Lampoon`s Vacation'' and ''Last Tango in Paris.''
Every movie downloaded from Movielink is the complete, original, full-length film, and can be viewed on a desktop PC or a laptop (PCs with video cards can be connected and viewed on a television. With Movielink`s ''Movies in Minutes'' feature, students on campus are able to begin watching a film within minutes of starting the download. For students on the go, they can download the movies to their laptops, and view them anytime, anywhere, while not connected to the Internet.
Movielink representatives will also be on-site throughout the month to promote the festival at 30 campuses nationwide, including Harvard University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Duke University, Ball State, and the University of Texas.
About Movielink
Movielink (www.movielink.com) is the online movie download service offering U.S. broadband customers an extensive selection of recently released films and classic movies covering every genre, from action, comedy, drama, family and romance to sci-fi, horror and thrillers. The service is owned and operated by Movielink, LLC, a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios. Movielink content offerings are drawn from the current releases and vast libraries of those studios as well as from those of Walt Disney Pictures, Miramax, Artisan and others, on a non-exclusive basis.
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