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23 Directors, Producers Speak Out Against Premium VOD

8:31 AM PDT 4/20/2011 by Pamela McClintock

Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Michael Bay and Kathryn Bigelow are among those who signed in support of the National Assn. of Theater Owners, urging studios to scrub the service.

Counting James Cameron and Peter Jackson among them, 23 leading directors and producers have signed an open letter opposing a pricy new premium VOD service that puts movies from Warner Bros., Sony, Universal and 20th Century Fox in homes only 60 days after a film’s theatrical release.

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