Today Microsoft announced that they have signed a deal with NBC Universal to allow their movies to be distributed through Xbox Live Marketplace in Europe. David Gosen from Xbox Europe commented on how this will be a major addition to an already popular entertainment center for gamers and non gamers alike, "This agreement makes the Xbox Live film offering bigger and better than ever. For Xbox, we want to ensure that we have the best entertainment content available - Xbox Live has grown into one of Europe's largest providers of on-demand high-definition movies and we'll continue to grow the content offered through the service"

Over the next few weeks users of the Marketplace in UK, France, Germany and Spain will see many new titles arrive and here are some of the titles:
Baby Mama
Billy Madison
The Blues Brothers
The Bourne Supremacy
Carlito's Way
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Child's Play 2
Child's Play 3
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Fast and the Furious
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Frighteners
The Game
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
How High
Incredible Hulk ('08)
The Jerk
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
National Lampoon's Animal House
Out of Sight ('98)
Red Dragon
Scarface ('83)
The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior
Shaun of the Dead
Village of the Damned
Wanted
Waterworld
Weird Science
As with movies currently on the Marketplace the pricing guide will be the same, it will cost you 250 Microsoft Points for Standard Definition and 380 for the High Definition version.

Posted: Feb 27, 2009 3:11 am