Paramount Pictures’ Jackass movie franchise is moving to the Web, with what they are calling the first studio-backed film to premiere online: On Dec. 19, the studio will make Jackass 2.5 available in connection with Blockbuster‚Äôs Movielink service. The hour-plus film has original material and previously unseen outtakes from the second Jackass movie in 2006. [...]

BitTorrent has announced a slate of partnerships with a variety of leading film and television companies, including 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Starz Media. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol that lets users share large files , while minimizing bandwidth charges for distributors. [...]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple [...]