JDelekto: Wow, I have eXistenz on DVD... that was one "trippy" movie with some stars in the cast. There were also some good sci-fi movies from the 80's (like Looker or Brainstorm) which I would love to see too.
However, seems like acquiring anything from big movie companies as opposed to "Indie" films is a bit more costly. Kind of sad considering that there are probably people out there stealing them when they could probably instead rake in a buck or two.
HunchBluntley: I'm not sure how much cost has to do with it. GOG has already stated quite bluntly that none of the big movie studios wants to be the first to try selling DRM-free digital-download films; add to that the problems others have mentioned with regional distribution, and you can start to see why GOG still only has tiny little indie films, many of which have been free to watch on YouTube.
Got a link to GOG stating that? Just curious because I watched a GOG TwitchTV broadcast in which Marcin Iwinski stated that they have hollywood studios willing to try DRM-free for some of their content but they do not have worldwide distribution rights. Said they're willing to offer GOG certain titles if they will accept regional distribution where they're able to offer it. Marcin then put the question out to customers "Would you guys be ok with having regional distribution of movies since there is no precedence either way for movies on GOG?" <paraphrase>
He asked for people to comment about it, and I don't know what the results of that were but when I read the forums any time I see anyone talk about regional linked content - regardless of the legal or other reasons why such content might be regional-only, people get very very upset and angry and don't want to see it here.
So, from what I've seen said so far it sounds like there is no chance of real movies or TV Shows ever coming to GOG.com due to highly vocal customers rejecting outright the regional distribution of content en-masse, and it being next to impossible to secure worldwide distribution rights of that content. Basically, what is actually possible to do, and what people demand be the case are perpetually irreconcilable, at least on GOG.com.
All is not lost though, GOG.com's parent company CD Projekt already sells all kinds of stuff in Poland that they do not sell on GOG.com, including Steam games (
http://cdp.pl ), so perhaps CD Projekt could open up a brand new subsidiary "GOM.com" (Good Old Movies) or something to sell movies under whatever terms they're able to get them DRM-free and start a new business model there without any pre-existing expectations. I'm sure many GOG customers who are aware of the complex legal issues in the movie distribution world and are willing to accept regionally licensed content rather than not have any content at all, would be willing to support such product offerings.
Unless a future Twitch.TV with Marcin suggests that things are moving forward positive on the Hollywood front though, I have my serious doubts we will ever see such video content available on GOG, although I'd love to be proven wrong on that for sure.