HBO is working on loosening its grip on movie studios in order to allow them to offer their films to sync across Apple's iCloud, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed. This means that, eventually, films from Universal and Fox may soon enjoy the same iCloud syncing as films from Lions Gate, Sony Pictures, Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros.

iCloud's ability to sync movies across iOS devices and computers was only announced last week during Apple's March 7 media event—previously, the service was able to sync music purchases from iTunes, TV shows, and music videos. As usual for these kinds of rollouts, not every movie studio was on board with the launch, in part due to their agreements with other content distribution companies like network cable channels.

HBO is one of those channels—it has agreements with a number of movie studios that they won't make their content available on other mediums until after its own exclusive viewing window has passed, but according to the WSJ, HBO is "relaxing its terms" to allow its partners to make use of iCloud. In fact, Warner Bros. was the first beneficiary of that decision, with Fox and Universal not far behind. Fox "expects to resolve the issue as soon as within weeks," said one of the Journal's sources, while Universal is "near a resolution."

The decision will help to make iCloud's offerings more appealing to the masses, but we do wonder how much bandwidth will be consumed by giant movie files being synced across devices. I've come to appreciate my own miserly approach to syncing movies (that is, I manually sync select ones to select devices at select times—none of this auto syncing stuff!), but others likely feel differently when they're trying to find that one movie with that one actor that they bought six months ago on their iPhones. Thoughts?