Newsreels

On September 30, The Disinformation Company will release a two-disc Collector's Set DVD of the documentary The Mindscape of Alan Moore (color. 78 min. + 202 min. extras. ISBN 978-1-934708-12-5. $29.95), in which the titular Hugo® Award winner participates. Expect interest: Zack Snyder's hotly anticipated film adaptation of Watchmen, Moore's seminal DC Comics series, is due in U.S. theaters on March 6, 2009. Watch the trailer at oadaer.notlong.com.

Missed Anime Expo® 2008, the nation's largest anime/manga convention? Made it, but want to relive the experience? Newly uploaded footage (150-plus minutes) of this year's convention appears at www.axbackstage.org. For information on next year's expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 2–5, visit www.anime-expo.org.

To commemorate National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), Fox and MGM are once again donating a percentage of DVD sales to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® (www.komen.org), a nonprofit organization supporting breast cancer research. The studios released 15 specially packaged DVDs last month, each priced at $14.98, and will donate 50¢ for each title purchased to the nonprofit. The titles, whose boxes are lined in pink, include Edward Scissorhands and An Affair To Remember.

Joining the ranks of competing online news outlets like MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, and FoxNews.com, Time Warner's CNN.com recently announced it would be providing embed codes for its video clips, meaning libraries and the general public can legally embed CNN news footage on their own web sites.

On August 18, download service CinemaNow announced it will work with Widevine Technologies' multiformat digital rights management-protection technology to make its movie and TV show downloads, formerly only playable on PCs and Windows Media portable devices, playable on Macs as well. Previously, iTunes had been the only download service to sell major studio movie downloads playable on both platforms (it still owns the market on the iPod). The deal with Widevine also newly enables CinemaNow to stream movies through Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, and Opera browsers.