Epix, the supposed “Hulu of Movies”, never mind that Hulu has movies already, has started to get itself off the ground with “hundreds of movies”. If you go to the site and enter your email, you have made it into “this weekend’s most exclusive destination”. So, we’ll see how that works for them.

If you do get in this weekend, you’ll get:

• Front row seats to hundreds of big Hollywood movies, anytime, anywhere.

• Tons of studio exclusives, behind the scenes access and movie extras.

• Private screenings: watch movies with friends, from anywhere, while you chat in real time

It’s an interesting combination of DVD features (but no word on commentary tracks) and they seem to be taking a subtle dig at Netflix Watch Instantly with their incessant yammering about “big Hollywood movies” (roughly translated this means: “Screw you Long Tail! You’ll watch ‘The Proposal’ and like it!”).