Clickstar, the joint venture of actor Morgan Freeman's Revelations Entertainment and Intel Corp. created to sell movie downloads online, adds yet another wrinkle to the business of content distribution. Unlike other players in this market, such as Movielink.com, Clickstar plans to release first-run DVDs on the Web at the time of theatrical release, "along with artist-created content that may otherwise not have gotten into movie theaters," according to an Intel spokeswoman. But movie marketing analysts wonder what a relatively small film production company and a computer chip-maker really bring to the party. "What does Intel make? They make chips," …

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