from Indie Movies Online's publicist / SEO guru The UK based movie-on-demand website Indie Movies Online is now online offering a new way to watch new and classic and new free movies. It offers  hundreds of great films to watch at high quality online legally. Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, James Rowley-Ashwood says “We are creating a site that focused on newer independent films from aro…

From PR Sarah Cameron: Content Republic, one of Europe’s leading digital distribution companies, today announces it has signed a deal for exclusive digital rights to the Arrow Films catalogue of classics and foreign language films. The deal, negotiated by Teun Hilte on behalf of Content Republic and Alex Agran for Arrow Films, will see Content Republic market and release over 60 films  through…

Finally some exciting news out of the Croisette - Britain's fifth largest retailer, the UK's biggest farmer and the world's biggest seller of fair trade, non-animal tested and ethically sourced products and services, the Co-Op, is moving into film distribution, starting with the hotly awaited docs Burma VJ and The Vanishing of the Bees. We often lament in my flat the march to sell out, that has…

Following a very busy European Film Market in Berlin, Content Republic is continuing to build its digital release slate for 2009 in a deal with The Works International. Content Republic has today announced that it has signed up to distribute Deepa Mehta’s THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE online for The Works in multiple European territories including Benelux, Germany, Italy and France.

The ever excellent BBC Film Network (when will it join iPlayer fullscreen flashness?!) has recommendations (republished below) of some of the British films to look out for this year, including Lone Sherfig's Sundance buzzed An Education, Richard Curtis' Radio Caroline biopic The Boat that Rocked, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and Armando Ianucci's first feature In The Loop - a film versi…

"Companies that don't realize their markets are now networked person-to-person, getting smarter as a result and deeply joined in conversation are missing their best opportunity." Cluetrain Thesis 18 According to discussion on the Film-Tech projectionist forum, reported on BoingBoing  and now covered in The Telegraph, the new Indiana Jones film is peppered with CAP cod…

From the BBC : A critically acclaimed Pakistani film exploring the relationship between liberal and fundamentalist Muslims has been released across cinemas in India. It is the first Pakistani film to get a wide commercial release in India in over four decades. Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God) focuses on the lives of Muslims after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States…