YouTube Snags Hundreds of Disney Movie Rentals

Move over Rebecca Black, YouTube Movies is about to make room for “hundreds” of Disney movie rentals.

YouTube’s less than one-year-old service, which offers web-based movies and TV show rentals for as little as 99 cents, now adds thousands of Walt Disney Studio films to its already substantial library. YouTube is also adding movies from Disney-Pixar and DreamWorks Studios.

This official announcement comes just weeks after a report that Disney and YouTube were working on a deal to deliver original video content on the video sharing service. While, according to the YouTube statement, only a handful of Disney films are available now, the service will soon fill with hundreds more, including classics like Alice in Wonderland and Pixar’s Cars, as well as some non-classics like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In addition to the movies, Disney will offer behind-the-scenes clips and interviews for the films in YouTube’s Movie Extras area.

Disney has recently made deals–though mostly for television shows–with streaming rivals like Netflix and Amazon.The latter also offers Disney films to rent. Netflix currently only offers a online streaming option, though you can rent Disney DVDs through the service.

The new Walt Disney Studio rentals will, for now, only be available to YouTube and Google TV users in the U.S. and Canada.

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