Now you can buy titles your family will love with XFINITY On Demand. Purchase many titles on your TV weeks before they are available on DVD or for rental. Then watch on your favorite devices as often as you want. You can't do this with satellite. Go beyond the movie with XFINITY On Demand™. Check out behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes and much more. Discover the Enhanced content by pressing INFO on your remote while you watch, or go to the Extras section. Look for select titles marked Enhanced and enjoy an interactive experience while you watch – only on X1. You can download or stream your XFINITY purchases to your tablet or smartphone and watch from anywhere. Whether you're home or on the go - your previously downloaded purchases will be right there with you.According to AAA, two-thirds of American families plan travel over the summer. As anyone with children knows, the time spent on long car rides, waiting in lines, or stuck at an airport can be among the toughest parts of the travel season.
Having the flexibility to pick up the device you’re traveling with and launch your child’s favorite movie with a few simple clicks could be just what’s needed to help pass the time. Comcast is helping its customers get ready for the season by launching a week of deep discounts in the Xfinity Digital Store on the movies that kids love to watch, again and again. From May 20 – 26, Xfinity TV customers will have access to nearly 100 movies, all priced under $10. This collection of films will include one of the biggest hits of 2014, The Lego Movie, which is available for purchase on May 20, four weeks before its DVD release. Earning more than 250 million at the box office and plans for a sequel already underway, The Lego Movie is currently ranked as the #1 film of 2014 by Rotten Tomatoes with a 96 percent Tomatometer. Other family favorites include a mix of current favorites and classics like: Nut Job, Turbo, The Croods, Ice Age, E.T. and The Wizard of Oz, and hit franchises like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Night at the Museum, Percy Jackson, Spider-man, Harry Potter and Happy Feet.
Most films will be priced for $9.99 HD or $7.99 SD. As an added bonus for customers, starting May 21 the Xfinity Digital Store will "unlock" one movie title a day that can be purchased for just $.99. /moviesale and also via Xfinity’s Facebook page. The Xfinity Digital Store makes owning and enjoying digital content on the biggest screen in the house as easy as clicking a remote. It eliminates the hassle of managing files, connecting devices or remembering passwords. Once purchased, the movies can be enjoyed anywhere, anytime, on a customer’s TV, online or even through the Xfinity On Demand Purchases app. Owned content can even be downloaded directly to customer’s devices and enjoyed in places where there’s no Internet connection such as on airplanes, on road trips, and even in beach houses. Launched at the end of 2013, the Xfinity Digital Store catalog includes hundreds of movies and TV shows from Twentieth Century Fox, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros.
A third version appears in The Lego Batman Movie, performed by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. On January 26, 2014, the song received its first US radio airplay via Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WXPK-FM, WRAT-FM and WDHA-FM.[11] Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara said in a Billboard interview: We want to be a "serious" musical band, while also being humorous people, but this was so adorable, and the movie looked great, and the opportunity to do something with Mark Mothersbaugh and the Lonely Island ... it was sort of a no-brainer, and it's turned out to be this really cool moment. We feel like it was a win-win. In an interview to Fox News, Mark Mothersbaugh says the song "was supposed to be like mind control early in the film. It's totally irritating, this kind of mindless mantra to get people up and working." The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara as well as The Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone. Parts of the video were made using brickfilming.
"Everything is Awesome" debuted at No. 7 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with 34,000 downloads in its first week (Nielsen SoundScan) and 11 on the Irish Charts. It also charted 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. The song charted 17 on the UK Charts and charted 3 on the UK Indie. In the US Billboard Hot 100, the song charted 57.[15] As of June 2014, the single had sold 418,000 copies in the United States. International Business Times described the song as a parody of creeping fascism, saying that the song "seems little more than an infectiously catchy parody of watered-down radio pop, right down to the faux-dubstep breakdown. There’s a lot more happening under the surface, however." As one of the songs nominated for Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars, "Everything is Awesome" was performed as a large-scale musical number featuring not only Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island, but also on-stage appearances by Mothersbaugh (paying homage to his 1970s group Devo by wearing a LEGO version of the distinctive Devo energy dome), DJ Questlove, and comic actor Will Arnett dressed as Batman (in the film
, Arnett provides the voice of Batman and sings the mocking heavy metal composition "Untitled Self Portrait", an excerpt of which was incorporated into the "Everything Is Awesome" performance).[18] According to LEGO Movie co-director Christopher Miller, for this on-stage appearance, Arnett wore the Batman costume originally worn by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film Batman Forever.[19] Arnett also lip-synced to the song on the Reality TV Show Lip Sync Battle, while dressed as Emmet, the character voiced by Chris Pratt in The Lego Movie. ^ [1] "Playlists for 1/26/14" ^ a b 'The Lego Movie': Why Tegan & Sara Went Chirpy for 'Everything Is Awesome' (Video). ^ Devo lead singer dishes on creating catchy 'Lego' song. ^ How 'The Lego Movie' And 'Everything Is Awesome' Parody Creeping Everyday Fascism. ^ WATCH: ‘Everything is Awesome’ at the Oscars Thanks to Will Arnett’s Batman and Oprah, Variety. accessed February 25, 2015 ^ Nick Romano, Will Arnett Wore A Piece Of Batman History At The Oscars.