Media | YouTube YouTube to Offer Movie Rentals Sundance flicks will be the first ones available on Friday By Nick McMaster Posted Jan 20, 2010 5:31 PM CST Copied The marquee at the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street promotes the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) YouTube will launch a video rental service on Friday, allowing movies from the Sundance Film Festival to be streamed for a price. It's an experiment by YouTube and parent company Google, which want big-name studios to eventually join them. Users will pay for the films through Google Checkout, and Google will split the proceeds with the creator of the content, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Sundance films will be cost $3.99 for a 48-hour rental period. Read These Next Noem, Pritzker clash after agents shoot woman in Chicago. NFL fans see same costly gaffe two weeks in a row. Trump deploys California Guard after losing in court. The Supreme Court delivered bad news to Ghislaine Maxwell. Report an error