IN JAPAN!!!!

July 14, 2009 - Want to download and watch Batman Begins, Contact, Last Samurai and 2001: A Space Odyssey on your Wii? You can! If you're in Japan.

Fujisoft, makers of the Everyone's Theater Wii service for the Japanese Wii, announced today a tie-up with Warner Entertainment Japan and Warner Brothers Digital Distribution that will make a bunch of Warner hits available for digital rental on the Wii. Fifty-four movies will be available starting tomorrow (July 15), priced at the service's standard rental price of 300 WiiPoints for 48 hours.

Outside of the above, the lineup includes Goonies, Free Willy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. More titles will follow following the initial batch.

Everyone's Theater Wii is a WiiWare-based video-on-demand service. To use the service, Wii owners must download a 500 WiiPoint viewing app. They then gain access to a growing library of anime, television dramas and, most recently, movies. The videos stream in DVD quality.

While many of the Warner titles are older, there's one exception. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button arrives on the download service simultaneously with the start of Japanese DVD and Blu-ray sales and rentals. Fujisoft said to expect more new releases from Warner in the future.

This service is Japan-only at the moment. But at the very least, it makes it clear that video on demand can be done on the Wii.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/100/1003404p1.html

Awesome.

Agreed. Nintendo having it's own channel and making it's own deals with studios is the reason why I don't think that NetFilx is coming to the WIi. I guess there is something to Nintendo buying that Television studio huh?

I want those movies! NAO!!!!

300 points per movie is a good price. My cable provider charges about twice as much for movie downloads.

Thats roughly $3 for a 2 day rental, at least if it was in the US, no? So if you watch 3 movies a month, you're paying more than for a basic netflix account. I dont see the big hooplah. If Netflix did hit the Wii and allow customers to use it like a Roku box, THAT could be worthwhile.

so thats warner and paramount that have added thier movies to wii. who will do so next do you think?

I think if they offer a pay-per-view model, and a scribe base model, it would kill 2 birds...

@Woopah: Thats a good question, cause if they are dealing directly, will they also deal with Sony studios?

@c03n3nj0: Man you can say that again. I stop dealing with Netfilx, and Gamefly cause I wasn't renting enough movies to justify the cost, so a ppv model cheaper then my cable works for me...

oh great thats awesome news and a while back i posted a article and it was about a rumor goign around about netflix on wii and i posted a little bit of information as to why netflix may not be possible on wii cause of the everyone's theatre channel so i hope this channel comes to the us and i hope they make it so that you can per month and then you can watch all the latest movies added unlimited! but this sounds good!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet, I wish they would launch that here. Course, I have a 360 already but I hate putting my cc on the 360 (it's a pain to get back off).