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Posted August 27, 2014
Cause there's no business like show-business!

Our DRM-Free approach to digital distribution has been the foundation of GOG.com since day one and we're convinced it is now firmly rooted in the gaming industry landscape. More and more users start to expect and demand the digital content they paid for to be free from any kind of restrictive mechanisms that limit access to their collections and get in the way of enjoyment. We think this is a good time to take the next step in our quest to make digital entertainment better for everyone. Today we set out to spread our DRM-Free ideas across the movie industry! That's right: GOG.com now offers DRM-Free movies.

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart. Now, what do we have in store for you?

- There's a whole new Movie Catalog for you to browse!
- All the movies we sell are priced at $5.99 (that's a launch promo price for a few of them), and we aim to have that as the main price point for most of our future releases
- Two of the movies - The Art of Playing and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard are available for FREE, so that you can test our new movie distribution features
- Most of our movies are in Full HD 1080p quality, some in 720p. With those of you with limited bandwidth or download quota in mind, we also supply much lighter 576p versions.
- Apart from downloading your movies you have the option to watch them streaming online, right here on GOG.com
- GOG.com is famous for its bonus goodies - each movie will come with as many of them as we can muster
- You can expect subsequent movie releases each week

That's it. GOG.com Movies is a go, time to get some popcorn!
Posted August 29, 2014
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snip3rfire: Mario Bros. The Movie
Oh dear please no.
It's a shame Bob Hoskins ever did this and I would like to honour him post mortem by ignoring this movie was ever made.
Posted August 29, 2014
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snip3rfire: Mario Bros. The Movie
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Klumpen0815: Oh dear please no.
It's a shame Bob Hoskins ever did this and I would like to honour him post mortem by ignoring this movie was ever made.
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/movies/super_mario_bros_1993
Posted August 29, 2014
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snip3rfire: Mario Bros. The Movie
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Klumpen0815: Oh dear please no.
It's a shame Bob Hoskins ever did this and I would like to honour him post mortem by ignoring this movie was ever made.
Damn, I had forgotten he's already dead... The greats from my childhood keep dropping like flies so it is hard to keep track.

This occurred to me also when they just showed The Hook on TV, apparently kind of honoring Robin Williams. It had Hoskins on it too.
Posted August 29, 2014
THE WIZARD (1989)

http://youtu.be/AacoxHFYvZw?t=2m16s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQdw1uRn04
Posted August 29, 2014
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Sabin_Stargem: Debbie Does Dallas
I don't think porn it's such a good ideea, although the numbers of GOG visitors could see a slight increase :)
Posted August 29, 2014
Something that actually would've made sense having here is Get Lamp.

And echoing pbaggers, would've been at least amusing seeing Manos here.
Posted August 29, 2014
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snip3rfire: I think movies based on games would perform well on GOG (despite how bad a lot of them turned out to be):

- Mortal Kombat
- Street Fighter
- Tomb Raider
- Hitman
- Resident Evil
- Mario Bros. The Movie
You forgot Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal and Alone in the Dark ;P.
Posted August 29, 2014
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Rinu: You forgot Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal and Alone in the Dark ;P.
Or his brain did him a favor and erased them from memory. Other horrors from the Boll include House of the Dead and In the name of the King (Dungeon Siege Tale), and some sequels for many.

I think there is also a Max Payne movie, starring Mark Wahlberg?
Posted August 29, 2014
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rodrolliv: Or his brain did him a favor and erased them from memory. Other horrors from the Boll include House of the Dead and In the name of the King (Dungeon Siege Tale), and some sequels for many.
Haha, quite possible. Oh, right, I forgot about these.

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rodrolliv: I think there is also a Max Payne movie, starring Mark Wahlberg?
Ugh, I will forever regret I didn't listen to my friend and we didn't just prolong our stay in the pub instead of packing our things to see that atrocity. But, well, then there was Max Payne 3... So it wasn't only culprit butchering the original :).
Anyway, the last "cliffhanger" scene was great because it triggered sarcastic laugh in the whole cinema hall.
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Posted August 29, 2014
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Crosmando: How do you encode them? File-format? Please tell me MKV or I won't be happy.
Actually, we will be adding MKV formated movies some time next week so you can choose between MP4 or MKV :)
Posted August 29, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Actually, we will be adding MKV formated movies some time next week so you can choose between MP4 or MKV :)
Awesome!
Posted August 29, 2014
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rjspring: If this helps build up some extra revenue or market presence for GOG then great. But if it has any negative effect on the gaming catalog then I'd advise caution. I have enough outlets to get my movies, though I appreciate the DRM free push I don't foresee using GOG for this kind of service.... but if others do then more power to them.
I wouldn't worry about the movies having a negative effect on the games side of GOG :)

We remain staunchly focused on getting all of the good OLD and NEW games. I realize that this sounds like handwaving PR speak and all but we signed more classic games and we don't plan on stopping anytime soon :) How many more, I can't get into detail but let's just say that there's more :)

As for the movies themselves, we want to do for them as we are doing for games: get rid of that godawful DRM. That is our primary goal for everything that we do here at GOG :)
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Smannesman: I suppose the concept is nice, I just wish they weren't all so uninteresting. Try and get Louis CK on board or something, he already did a DRM-free sale.
Our selection is small as of right now but we're still experimenting with what is a completely new venture for us :) All I can say is keep an eye out and who knows what other kind of movies or TV shows might show up? :)


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JudasIscariot: Actually, we will be adding MKV formated movies some time next week so you can choose between MP4 or MKV :)
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Rinu: Awesome!
\o/

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lazylazyjoe: Kind of like VHX or archive.org. It would be cool if it could find all the "extras" videos from the games could be organized in with the movies, like how Humble does it.I guess this kind of opens to door for other media, like comics & books. I'm all for it,
Well, we don't want to take the extras from the games and also the extras are beholden to a different publisher than a given movie. In short, it's really complicated :)
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tootbrush: Excellent. You have no idea how long I've wanted someone to pick up the distribution of DRM-free movies.

However, I do second the concerns raised here about the impact on your games business.

Also, MKV > MP4. Of course, I can always put it inside a MKV container, but you'd have an easier time yourself if you wanted to bundle several audio or subtitle tracks (for languages, commentary etc.).
As I said to Crosmando, we'll be adding MKV versions of movies and you can choose whether you want the MP4 version or the MKV :)
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haydenaurion: I've said it before, unless gog can get some good anime and foreign films, I will have close to zero interest in the new movie side of gog.
We are working all the time to get all sorts of cool and interesting movies and even genres but this will take time depending on the willingness of various movie creators or publishers willingness to go DRM-free :)
Post edited August 29, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted August 29, 2014
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JudasIscariot: We are working all the time to get all sorts of cool and interesting movies and even genres but this will take time depending on the willingness of various movie creators or publishers willingness to go DRM-free :)
I already added my vote for this on the wishlist, but The Wizard of Speed and Time would be a great place to start with feature films! I have a strong feeling Mike Jittlov might be willing to let you sell his work DRM-Free, and I'd dearly love to buy a copy.
Posted August 29, 2014
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f-chopin: Subtitles are very important so please make sure they are available even if the language is in English.
Another important point is making sure the films are not cut and the original uncut version is introduced.

Keep up the good work.
We make sure to include all of the possible subtitles for every movie that has them :) Unfortunately, not every movie has official subtitles and we cannot make them ourselves...unless you'd like us to get "creatve" with our translations :D


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JudasIscariot: We are working all the time to get all sorts of cool and interesting movies and even genres but this will take time depending on the willingness of various movie creators or publishers willingness to go DRM-free :)
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Luned: I already added my vote for this on the wishlist, but The Wizard of Speed and Time would be a great place to start with feature films! I have a strong feeling Mike Jittlov might be willing to let you sell his work DRM-Free, and I'd dearly love to buy a copy.
Excellent! Always nice to see the wishlist get used :) Thanks!
Post edited August 29, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted August 29, 2014
Would it be possible to distribute "Min Avatar og mig", another video game related movie? www.minavatarogmig.com
I don't understand that language, but I know there are at least English and German dubbed versions.
It's a love story in a documentary style about Second Life with fictional elements mixed in.
I'd love to get that movie in a decent quality.
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