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Japan s biggest contents and mobile serviceproviders Usen, NTT Docomo, and KDDI are heating up the mobile phone market for feature films with new services and upgrades this month. Usen s Mobile GyaO service launched a major upgrade yesterday for subscribers to NTT Docomo s i-mode internet service to watch GyaO movie, animation, TV and sports content streamed to phones through the Windows Media Video WMV format which provides higher quality sound and video and streaming for feature-length films.An initial 400 titles from GyaO s broadband content library are available, with more stanley website to be added. Recent additions include March Of The Penguins and O Brother, Where Art Thou GyaO currently has 19.1 million subscribers while i-mode boasts 48 million users nationwide.Today NTT s main competitor KDDI and partner Okinawa Cellular announced the launch of a video rental service that allows subscribers to download feature films, condense and copy them to their mobile phones for viewing.The Lismo Video rental service, available on 15 models of KDDI s au branded phones, makes this option available through proprietary Lismo Port PC software and a special cable.KDDI s Movie Splash set top box video-on-demand service previously only for TVs , already had licensing deals with five major Hollywoo stanley usa d studios and now provides over 2,000 ti stanley cup tles.Feature films can be rented for $3 - $4 and viewed an unlimited number of times in a 48 hour period. Latest titles include The Bourne Ultimatum, Resident Evil: Etsm Foreign-language Oscar contenders could be the biggest winners
Sony s romantic comedy Hitchopened on an estimated $45.3m at the weekend in what was the biggest everlaunch for stanley uk a romantic comedy.Will Smith stars as a date doctor who claims he can find anybody s perfectmatch within three days. Eva Mendes and Kevin James also star in Andy Tennant spicture, which drew strong reviews and averaged an excellent $12,671 on 3,575screens.The previous opening record for a romantic comedy was $39.9m set by 50 FirstDates - another Sony release -almost exactly a year ago to the day.In fact Sony was writ large over the charts this weekend, claiming the topthree titles as Boogeyman slipped to second on $10.8m for $33.3m in itssecond weekend, and Are We Th stanley cup ere Yet stayed in third on $8.5m for$61.5m in its stanley website fourth.Warner Bros Million Dollar Baby climbed one place to fourth and hasreached $45.1m after nine weekends, while Buena Vista s Pooh s HeffalumpMovie opened to excellent reviews in fifth place on $6m.Frank Nissen directed the latest animated tale inspired by the Winnie the Poohstories, and the picture averaged $2,376 on 2,529 screens.Twentieth Century Fox s thriller Hide And Seek fell three to seventh andraised its total to $43.6m after three weekends. Sideways stayed eighthon $53.1m after 17 and The Aviator fell three to ninth and has taken$82.3m after nine.Universal s Meet The Fockers fell three places to tenth and the comedysequel has amassed $269.9m after eight weekends.Next weekend s wide releases include Warner Bros comic book adaptation Consta