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MOVIES ONLY A CLICK AWAY FOX, 20TH TEAM FOR WEB SITE.


Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer

Twentieth Century Fox and CinemaNow Inc. are teaming up to offer Fox movies for Internet Internet

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CinemaNow will offer Fox's new release titles like ``Daredevil,'' ``Just Married'' and ``The Banger Sisters'' on the same day they become available through traditional pay-per-view outlets on the Web site, www.cinemanow.com. The Web site also will make available previously released films from the Fox library.

``We have long believed in the potential of the Internet as an effective system for delivering our movies,'' said Peter Levinsohn, Fox's executive vice president of worldwide pay television and pay-per-view. ``We are extremely excited about the prospects of this new space.''

Fox said its new online partnership is based on CinemaNow's understanding of the importance of protecting content in the online environment and its ability to promote movies in a manner not available in traditional distribution formats.

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, utilizes a proprietary video-on- demand technology called PatchBay, which it already uses for online content distribution internationally.

Curt Marvis, chief executive of CinemaNow, said the partnership with Fox is of ``tremendous significance'' to his company and will help build it into a profitable business.

``Internet video-on-demand is poised for explosive growth in the coming years, and Hollywood studios are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the opportunity,'' Marvis said.

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 of unlimited viewing, and library films will be priced at $2.99 for 24 hours of unlimited viewing. All Fox titles will be made available in Microsoft's Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows.  9 Series format.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date:Apr 4, 2003
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