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Netflix Will Stream Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM Movies Starting September 1

Netflix has reached an agreement with Epix to include films from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM Studios as part of its Watch Instantly offerings, starting September 1. The films will be available on Netflix only 90 days after their pay TV debuts.

This deal with Epix will make Hollywood movies available to Netflix subscribers far more quickly, and in far greater numbers, than they are currently. And they’re good ones! Think, potentially, the new Star Trek, Indiana Jones, and so on.

The LA Times reported that this deal could cost Netflix some $1 billion over its multi-year lifetime. [Market Watch, NYT]

Send an email to Kyle VanHemert, the author of this post, at kvanhemert@gizmodo.com.

Crikey! Killer Croc Dragged From Swamp With Two Land Cruisers

Australia’s the land of the hoon, but also some crazy wildlife. It took two Land Cruisers to pull this 21-foot-long cow-eating crocodile from the swamp after it was dispatched. There’s another big one still hiding. Damn nature, you scary! [AdelaideNows]

Send an email to Ben, the author of this post, at ben@jalopnik.com.

Crikey! Killer Croc Dragged From Swamp With Two Land Cruisers

Australia’s the land of the hoon, but also some crazy wildlife. It took two Land Cruisers to pull this 21-foot-long cow-eating crocodile from the swamp after it was dispatched. There’s another big one still hiding. Damn nature, you scary! [AdelaideNows]

Send an email to Ben, the author of this post, at ben@jalopnik.com.

Unearthed Color Photos from Depression-Era America Show Rare Glimpse at Life

Color photography‘s been kicking around since the mid-1800s, but it wasn’t until 1935, when Kodak put the first color-film out, that people started using it. Nonetheless, color photos from Depression-era America are scant, which is what makes these so wonderful.

The collection of photos was taken between 1939 and 1943 across America, by the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information, and offer a glimpse at the post-war life which hasn’t been told much before: in color.

My favorite, the one above, was shot in Caribou in Maine, in October 1940, and features some trucks outside of a starch factory. Others, like the ones I’ve placed in the gallery below, show cotton-farm workers in Georgia; a family in New Mexico having a bare-bones dinner; and a farm auction in Connecticut, the red of the wagon looking like nothing we’ve seen from that period before.

What is the oldest color photo your family has? [Denver Post - Thanks, Richard!]

Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com.