{"id":342617,"date":"2017-06-02T23:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/02\/itunes-sale-iconic-essential-movie\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T23:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:54:31","slug":"itunes-launches-sale-on-iconic-and-essential-decade-based-movie-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/itunes-launches-sale-on-iconic-and-essential-decade-based-movie-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Launches Sale on &#8216;Iconic&#8217; and &#8216;Essential&#8217; Decade-Based Movie Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple recently opened up a limited-time sale within iTunes for a selection of movies dating back to the 1950s, which the company has grouped into &#8220;Iconic&#8221; and &#8220;Essential&#8221; collections (via <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/digital\/news\/apple-itunes-sale-essential-movies-decades-1202451661\/\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>). The bundles include movies like <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, <em>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/em>, <em>Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em>, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>The sale starts with a group of &#36;19.99 &#8220;Iconic&#8221; movie bundles for each decade, beginning with the 1950s, each including ten movies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/itunes-movie-sale-decades.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"454\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568108\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAll of the movies included in every collection are listed below: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1950s:<\/strong> <em>The Country Girl<\/em>, <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em>, <em>Sabrina<\/em>, <em>Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, <em>To Catch a Thief<\/em>, <em>War and Peace<\/em>, <em>Houseboat<\/em>, <em>A Place in the Sun<\/em>, <em>The Greatest Show on Earth<\/em>, <em>Funny Face<\/em>\n<li><strong>1960s:<\/strong> <em>The Odd Couple<\/em>, <em>Alfie<\/em>, <em>Barbarella<\/em>, <em>Hud<\/em>, <em>Barefoot in the Park<\/em>, <em>Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em>, <em>In Harm\u2019s Way<\/em>, <em>True Grit<\/em>, <em>The Italian Job<\/em>, <em>The Nutty Professor<\/em>\n<li><strong>1970s:<\/strong> <em>Paper Moon<\/em>, <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, <em>Love Story<\/em>, <em>Grease<\/em>, <em>The Out-of-Towners<\/em>, <em>Harold and Maude<\/em>, <em>Heaven Can Wait<\/em>, <em>On a Clear Day You Can See Forever<\/em>, <em>The Bad News Bears<\/em>, <em>Plaza Suite<\/em>\n<li><strong>1980s:<\/strong> <em>The Naked Gun<\/em>, <em>Airplane!<\/em>, <em>Footloose<\/em>, <em>Urban Cowboy<\/em>, <em>Clue<\/em>, <em>Pretty in Pink<\/em>, <em>Some Kind of Wonderful<\/em>, <em>Terms of Endearment<\/em>, <em>Crocodile Dundee<\/em>, <em>Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>\n<li><strong>1990s:<\/strong> <em>Wayne\u2019s World<\/em>, <em>Clueless<\/em>, <em>The Truman Show<\/em>, <em>What\u2019s Eating Gilbert Grape<\/em>, <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em>, <em>Ghost<\/em>, <em>Kingpin<\/em>, <em>Superstar<\/em>, <em>Runaway Bride<\/em>, <em>Tommy Boy<\/em>\n<li><strong>2000s:<\/strong> <em>Zoolander<\/em>, <em>Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy<\/em>, <em>How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days<\/em>, <em>Tropic Thunder<\/em>, <em>Almost Famous<\/em>, <em>School of Rock<\/em>, <em>I Love You, Man<\/em>, <em>She\u2019s the Man<\/em>, <em>Mean Girls<\/em>, <em>Old School<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Essential&#8221; films aren&#8217;t bundled under one price point, and instead iTunes has accumulated popular films from each decade and marked them down to &#36;4.99 each. The amount of movies included in each decade&#8217;s Essential sale ranges from 26 to nearly 100, although the 1950s are not included.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/itunes-movie-sales-essentials.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568107\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSome of the &#36;4.99 films in each decade&#8217;s sale are listed below:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/p>\n<li><strong>1960s:<\/strong> <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, <em>Lawrence of Arabia<\/em>, <em>The Graduate<\/em>, <em>Psycho<\/em>, <em>West Side Story<\/em>\n<li><strong>1970s:<\/strong> <em>Rocky<\/em>, <em>Carrie<\/em>, <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, <em>The French Connection<\/em>, <em>Serpico<\/em>, <em>Marathon Man<\/em>\n<li><strong>1980s:<\/strong> <em>Back to the Future<\/em>, <em>Die Hard<\/em>, <em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>, <em>Dirty Dancing<\/em>, <em>WarGames<\/em>, <em>The Thing<\/em>\n<li><strong>1990s:<\/strong> <em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>, <em>Fight Club<\/em>, <em>American Beauty<\/em>, <em>Jerry Maguire<\/em>, <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>, <em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>\n<li><strong>2000s:<\/strong> <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em>, <em>Juno<\/em>, <em>(500) Days of Summer<\/em>, <em>Cloverfield<\/em>, <em>Ghost World<\/em>, <em>Legally Blonde<\/em>, <em>Bring It On<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>\niTunes has also marked down specific categories of Essential films, including &#8220;Summer Blockbuster Essentials,&#8221; &#8220;Based on a True Story Essentials,&#8221; &#8220;Essential Actors + Directors,&#8221; and more.<\/p>\n<p>Apple regularly runs sales within the movies section of iTunes, most recently giving the storefront a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/19\/itunes-lego-makeover-batman\/\">LEGO-themed makeover<\/a> and placing some DC movies on sale to coincide with the digital release of <em>The LEGO Batman Movie<\/em>. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/09\/12\/apple-movie-bundles-10-years-itunes\/\">the movies section of iTunes turned ten years old<\/a> and in celebration Apple debuted bundles of ten films for &#36;10 each.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/itunes-sale-iconic-essential-movie.2048124\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=iO0KPEdSiVY:zfSwACcSNC8:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=iO0KPEdSiVY:zfSwACcSNC8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/iO0KPEdSiVY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-342617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}