Did GOG give up on putting up new movies or are they having a hard time getting something decent up? I feel like it died out pretty fast.

Let's see...

What happened to the "Movies" section?
What happened to GOG Connect?
What happened to Reclaim Your Games?
Why is the Community Wishlist still in beta?
Why is Galaxy still in beta?
Why won't my forum avatar update?
Why does my account have a notification when there's nothing there?

...did I miss anything?

Every time they need some publicity they supposedly 'start' some new venture.
Good riddance to the so-called 'movies' section though, they never got anything interesting anyhow.

yes o.O

Where is Diablo?

It always seemed to have a very heavy US focus. Rather bizarrely I don't think they released a single Polish film.

I'm in the UK and I can turn on the TV for the pick of US programming so paying a fiver a go for second class stuff has no appeal at all. I'd have been far more tempted if they were subtitling and offering the pick of movies and documentaries from around the world as they do for games.

I don't know for sure, but maybe there aren't any new movies with the quality and theme (such as there are) that would fit in to the current stock.
Anyway, I don't think it was a bad venture, per se, but I personally don't see the value in it.

Its now merged with D2 and D3 - oh, there's another problem for the list.

As for movies it was meh at release and went downhill.

Where are all the missing Star Trek games?!

As for the whole "movies" thing- it was an utter dissappointment in every way, and it's best forgotten.

Which is then quickly forgot about... sad but true. I really hate that, especially when this shit is wasting time and GOG is slow as it is to get anything done or improved.

Gog likes to implement new features to drum up interest, then quickly abandons them.

GOG has internal company problems. They like to be fine on the books for the sake of press releases but aren't doing anything to fix the problems. Then they defend it with "we're all working on Galaxy and support tickets and it was the weekend that's why we were off and then this holiday you can't expect us to work and it's all so hard you can't expect it to be done anytime soon and and and..." it goes on.

Having difficulties would be fine if they were more actively open with the community, but they have a habit of dying out or an employee leaving with no notice and no one to fill that position for a while.

TLDR: they'll come back to movies one day and pretend that they've been working hard on it all along to get that license deal, GOG users will be ecstatic, then it'll die until the next announcement. :P

There is no demand for drm-free movies, that's why.

That I do agree cause I can just buy a blu ray on amazon or rightstuf and just makemkv a drm free copy and I can use it on my home media server, But the fact of having some decent films off the bat so I don't have to go through all the trouble is nice once in a while.

There is a demand. There aren't any options besides piracy either, or finding free/public domain ones.