Taking a leaf from the iTunes book, filmmaker Phil Dale is to self distribute his award winning short film The Census Taker for download to the growing army of content hungry iPod and PSP owners.

US studio executives and theatre owners are watching the new Steven Soderbergh film Bubble carefully, to see how it fares with simultaneous release on DVD and aired on cable TV - on the same day it screens simultaneously in several theatres owned by the film’s producers.