Sprint has launched Sprint Movies, the first "pay-per-view" service for mobile phones in the U.S. that streams full-length movies from Buena Vista VOD, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures.

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Powered by mSpot, movies can be seen in their entirety all at once, or divided into chapters and watched over time. Customers can play, pause and skip forward or backward to different chapters, also resuming at the exact point where they left off before shut down.

In December 2005, Sprint became the first carrier in the U.S. to offer any type of full-length movies on mobile phones with mSpot Movies. This service will continue to be available as another option to Sprint customers. Compared to Sprint Movies, which are pay-per-view by each title, mSpot Movies allow customers to watch a selection of unlimited movies, TV shows and concerts for a monthly subscription fee of $6.95.

Sprint Movies cost between $3.99 and $5.99 each. Customers can view the movie for unlimited times within a set period, which varies between 24 hours and one week depending on the title. In addition, 24-hour titles include the option of purchasing up to two 24-hour viewing extensions at the rate of $0.99.

Sprint Movies is available on select Sprint multimedia handsets and can be watched anywhere while on Sprint's Power Vision network or nationwide Vision network. All titles from Sprint Movies are edited, when necessary, to meet TV-14 standards. New titles will continually be added to the Sprint Movies lineup. The initial titles are:

Buena Vista VOD
- Annapolis
- Eight Below
- Glory Road
- Herbie: Fully Loaded
- National Treasure
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Village

Lionsgate
- Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Ultraviolet
- Spider-Man 2
- Little Black Book
- Hollywood Homicide
- The Medallion
- The Net
- First Knight

Universal Pictures
- American Pie
- American Pie 2
- Apollo 13
- Babe
- Backdraft
- Billy Madison
- Bring it On
- Dante's Peak
- End of Days
- Erin Brokovich
- Fast and Furious
- Happy Gilmore
- How High
- Jaws
- Kindergarten Cop
- Meet the Parents
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- Reality Bites
- Scarface
- Slapshot
- The Bone Collector
- The Breakfast Club
- The Family Man
- The Jerk
- The Mummy
- The Mummy Returns
- The Nutty Professor 2
- Tremors
- Twins
- U-571