Disney To Rent Films On YouTube0

Written by Parveen Maghera

We’ve got thou­sands of full-length fea­ture Hollywood films ready and avail­able for rent on YouTube.Existing titles for rent include : Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Horrible Bosses, Green Lantern and more. This rental cat­a­logue how­ever is about to expand.

YouTube will soon offer Disney movies for rent, after a new part­ner­ship between Disney and the Google-owned website.

Minjae Ormes, YouTube mar­ket­ing exec­u­tive, announced through a blog post on Wednesday that the first of hun­dreds of Walt Disney Movies would be streamed on the site. This includes pro­duc­tions from Disney, Disney Pixar and DreamWorks Studios. Among the offer­ings are Cars and Cars 2, all four instal­ments from the block­buster series of Pirates of the Caribbean as well as ani­mated Disney films such as Alice in Wonderland and the newest pro­duc­tion of Winnie the Pooh. More are yet to come within the com­ing weeks.

And not for­get­ting, the rental ser­vice also pro­vides movie extras with behind-the-scenes clips, inter­views and more.

After Sony, Warner Bros and Universal, Disney is the fourth major stu­dio to col­lab­o­rate with Youtube in the aim of “transform[ing] YouTube’s home movies image into a viable stream­ing platform.”

The movies can be watched online, on Google TV and even on your Android phone or tablet. The rentals start as low as $0.99, with the high­est at $3.99 and some are also avail­able for free.

*Walt Disney Studio YouTube rentals are only avail­able in the United States and Canada.

YouTube begins rent­ing Disney movies — Mercury News