Three of the world's most prominent movie studios got together last month to launch EpixHD. Their mission: to create a Hulu for movies. However, there was one major differentiation between their product strategy and that of Hulu: you can only access EpixHD.com if you have the Epix TV channel. Instead of ads, the partnership would generate revenue from platform deals.

Now the first such deal has been struck, with Verizon FiOS. Customers that already have Verios FiOS TV and Internet in their homes will be able to watch streams of Iron Man and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as much as they would like. Epix, for those who did not see our first article, is both a TV channel and a website. Both provide full HD streams of movies from Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM, free of ads. While it acts like both HBO and Hulu, you don't have to pay for either - so long as your Internet and TV provider have a deal with Epix.









The website specifically offers an array of new releases and classic movies and includes features such as Private Screening, which lets you watch a movie with friends in a virtual theater. It's the movie collection though that's most impressive, which includes:

- All the Indiana Jones movies (including the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) - Iron Man - Saw (and all its sequels) - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Cloverfield - Every single James Bond movie

Okay, do you see why Epix such an attractive commodity? Shop these assets around and companies are bound to sign with you. There are about 2 million FiOS TV subscribers currently. Lucky them.