A decent free alternative is DVD Profiler, which allows users to enter a movie's title, Universal Product Code or International Standard Book Number by hand, or use a bar-code scanner.
The source of Universal's confidence: Working Title, Universal's London-based production house run by Tim Bevan, 43, and Eric Fellner, 42.
In 1928 the Bureau des Expositions was installed in Paris, the official institution that hands out the title "Universal World Exhibition".
DAVID DENBY: Um, you may be joking, but I think that's one of the titles that Universal owns, set in some sort of parallel real-estate universe, I guess.
Sony BMG will be releasing 50 debut titles and Universal Music Group will have approximately 10 to 20 titles ready.
Back in May Lovefilm did a multi-year deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution, which offers members access to streaming titles from Universal Pictures during the second pay window.
Today, the company is announcing a new multi-year deal with NBCUniversal International Television Distribution, which will offer LOVEFiLM members access to streaming titles from Universal Pictures during the second pay window.
A film of Les Mis is currently in production with Working Title and Universal.
Unfriended, with a decent debut of £1.35m, looks likely to be a profitable title for Universal, given the rumoured $1m production budget.
Working Title and Universal need the expensive Green Zone to be the film that finally connects the Iraq war to mass audiences.
