AOL has entered into the instant streaming business for movies.
AOL signed a deal with Miramax that will allow users to stream full-length movies for free. The feature films will be available across a variety of devices but will feature advertisements during the movies, Variety reported.
This new feature will debut in the "Movies" section of AOL On Network for video, which currently features only short series and clips.
Some of the films that will be made available include, Pulp Fiction, Scream,Chicago, Good Will Hunting and Bridget Jones’s Diary.
This new feature is set to launch of April 30th. Films will be featured each month and rotated out. It has not yet been announced which fills will be available starting on April 30th, Engadget added.
Ran Harnevo, president of AOL Video, expressed the need to look beyond short video clips with this digital element and provide full movies to users. "There’s a tendency to look at digital companies as doing only shortform video. Our viewers are getting more open to us offering longer-form content, and we want to offer a full breadth of content. Curating good film experiences looks like a natural path.”