Nearly 20 percent of YouTube viewing is now done on TVs, either on smart sets with a built-in YouTube app or via streaming players like Roku or Apple TV which bring the YouTube app to TV sets.įollow USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. While the offerings from YouTube are mostly older titles that many haven't heard of (outside of "Rocky," "Pink Panther" and a few other titles), they could be a good fit with folks looking for something to entertain themselves on YouTube. But they cost $2.99 to $3.99 to view, and the $9.99 monthly from FilmStruck was clearly a better deal.Īlso showing free, ad-supported movies for streaming are Vudu and Tubi. Many film fans have wondered where today's generation would get to see classics like Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights," "Duck Soup" by the Marx Brothers or "Casablanca," with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In recent weeks, there has been outcry over AT&T's decision to kill the FilmStruck subscription movie service, one of the few places online where film fans could get access to watching old classics via streaming. The movies and shows are found on the "YouTube Movies" channel, which has over 70 million subscribers. More: New 5G networks are for cord cutters For more recommendations, check out our list of the best movies on Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video. More: Amazon DVR makes cord cutting even more attractive Here are the very best movies you can stream for free on the site at the moment. More: Cord cutting accelerates even worse than first thought, with 1.2 million defections in Q3 Our list of the best free movies on YouTube includes one of Tom Cruises best films of all time, an under-appreciated thriller featuring John Goodman and one of the Coen Brothers best films. This is similar pricing to how Apple does it on iTunes and Amazon with Prime Video. YouTube also offers episodes and seasons of popular TV shows, like AMC's "Better Call Saul," NBC's "The Good Place" and the classic first edition of Star Trek at $2.99 per episode, or $9.99 to $14.99 for the complete season. Current hits, "A Star is Born," and "Bohemian Rhapsody" are advertised in the movies section as coming soon. "It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers."įor the current product, YouTube has a wider base of titles available, including recent hits like "Crazy Rich Asians" (for $19.99 to own) or Disney's "The Incredibles 2," to rent, for $4.99. "We saw this opportunity based on user demand, beyond just offering paid movies," Rohit Dhawan, director of product management at YouTube told Ad Age. They appear directly under the collection of recently released films and TV shows that YouTube currently offers for rent and sale. ![]() Though a fictional throughline runs through the film, it ultimately blurs fact and fiction, thanks to the real-life audition footage Zobel incorporated, and it ends up being an incredibly revealing look about the desire for fame and celebrity.The YouTube films feature ads, unless you subscribe to the $9.99 monthly YouTube Premium offering. Those auditioning, tricked into thinking the two actors were record industry executives, were frequently and often entirely unaware that this was a film shoot, exposing themselves fully. Directed by Craig Zobel, who also helped to create Homestar Runner and would later go on to direct Z by Zachariah starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine, this unorthodox documentary features Pat Healy as Martin and Kene Holliday as Clarence, two men undercover on an actual audition circuit who convince strangers to perform for them in exchange for free recordings of their CDs and contact with radio stations. A small independent film that made a fairly big impression, Great World of Sound came out in the midst of the reality television fame phenomenon of the late aughts, when seemingly anybody could become instantly famous on an American Idol-type show without having to struggle or maybe even possess the requisite talent. 2012 saw the release of Tai Chi Zero, the first in a trilogy of super stylized Chinese action movies that blend 3D shots and ambitious camerawork with live-action martial arts (the second film in.
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