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Engadget
14-05-2025
- Business
- Engadget
Letterboxd will launch a curated online rental service for films
There's about to be a new online movie rental site in town. Letterboxd is introducing a transactional video-on-demand service for its users, according to The Hollywood Reporter . The social media platform for movie lovers announced the news during the Cannes Film Festival. The Letterboxd Video Store will have curated rental categories such as up-and-coming filmmakers, under-appreciated movies and more on demand. There will also be areas that highlight the movies premiering at different film festivals, many of which will be available for a set amount of time. Plus, the rental service could offer some movies that only have a limited distribution, getting them in front of a wider audience. Letterboxd pitches its Video Store it as a natural next step for the company. 'Every day, we see members recommending films to each other, adding to their watchlists and hungry to discover more,' Letterboxd CEO Matthew Buchanan stated. 'Letterboxd Video Store is our way of delivering for those film lovers, creating a dedicated space for films that deserve an audience.' However, while we know it should be coming, that's about all the logistical information we have. Letterboxd has yet to release pricing, launch dates or countries where rentals will be available. These finer points should all arrive in the upcoming months.
The Verge
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Letterboxd announces curated online film rental store
Letterboxd – a film tracker app and the only good social network – announced a Letterboxd Video Store at the Festival de Cannes on Tuesday. Unlike a traditional video-on-demand service, Letterboxd Video Store will offer 'limited festival-style windows' when you can stream 'festival favorites, underseen gems, global cinema, and emerging voices' in cinema. The service is even exploring limited runs of films that haven't yet scored widespread distribution, which would make your dream watchlist that more attainable. When does it launch? What are the first selections? Which territories will it be available in? Will it be that compromised by Trump's wacky tariff ideas? We do not yet know. But Letterboxd does promise that the selections will be curated by the Letterboxd team leveraging 'behavioral insight' gathered from the 20 million users logging, reviewing, and discoursing on its service. Given that Letterboxd's film blog Journal is good actually, I trust this combination of personal curation and 'community enthusiasm.' It's a welcome addition to the curated streaming service space where Criterion and Mubi live, for those of us with Netflix fatigue and a yet-undetermined amount of bucks to spare.
