Letterboxd will launch a curated on-line rental service for movies

There’s about to be a brand new on-line film rental web site on the town. Letterboxd is introducing a transactional video-on-demand service for its customers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The social media platform for film lovers introduced the information through the Cannes Movie Pageant.

The Letterboxd Video Retailer could have curated rental classes comparable to up-and-coming filmmakers, under-appreciated motion pictures and extra on demand. There will even be areas that spotlight the films premiering at completely different movie festivals, a lot of which will probably be out there for a set period of time. Plus, the rental service might provide some motion pictures that solely have a restricted distribution, getting them in entrance of a wider viewers.

Letterboxd pitches its Video Retailer it as a pure subsequent step for the corporate. “Daily, we see members recommending movies to one another, including to their watchlists and hungry to find extra,” Letterboxd CEO Matthew Buchanan said. “Letterboxd Video Retailer is our approach of delivering for these movie lovers, making a devoted house for movies that deserve an viewers.”

Nonetheless, whereas we all know it needs to be coming, that is about all of the logistical data we now have. Letterboxd has but to launch pricing, launch dates or nations the place leases will probably be out there. These finer factors ought to all arrive within the upcoming months.