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Toronto’s Extend helping ClickStar smash windows

SANTA MONICA and TORONTO – On Friday, a new way to distribute new movies will launch in California which will see very new first run movies available on broadband. ClickStar, a partnership between chipmaker Intel and actor Morgan Freeman's production company Revelations Entertainment will sell first run movies, some as recent as a week or two after their theatrical debut. If it starts a trend, that impacts existing sales windows (DVD, PPV, VOD, etc.) for movie content. The company has agreements with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, but has not yet announced...