Mubi (formerly The Authors) has offered Spike Jonze’s latest film ‘Scenes from the Suburbes’ online for free, for 2 days. You could watch the movie until last Tuesday. The film is about the turmoil associated with growing up in suburbs and the disintegration of friendships.

Spike Jonze is a famous producer and director and has also produced the classic movie "Being John Malkovich". The band Arcade Fire also contributed to the film. After a successful showing of the on the Berlin International Film Festival, the parties decided to offer the movie for free online.

A smart move, because it may well boost the reputation of the online cinema Mubi. Generally, you have to pay 3 euro’s per film for the movie streams of Mubi or 12 euro’s per month (max 5 films). Some movies are for free.

Mubi has a database with only the best quality films around the world. Mubi streams them in high definition video and audio quality and offers a variety of social networking functions. This online business model is well put together, as it secures copyright revenues of the films as much as possible (through paid video streams). Thanks to this, visitors could watch the latest film of top producer Spike Jonze for free for 2 days.

Reference: Mubi.com