MUMBAI: Following new package deals with NBC Universal (NBCU) Domestic Television and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distributors, ION Television has bagged more than 40 new feature films. These films will begin airing later this month and continue till 2010.
The NBCU package covers The Break Up, Miami Vice, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, the Back to the Future
trilogy, Inside Man and The Hitcher among others.
The network has also expanded on its existing agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The 30-plus new films in the package include March of the Penguins, Troy, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Matrix Revolutions and Taking Lives.
“As ION Television continues to build its schedule, these first-rate theatrical features are the perfect complement to our growing lineup of original and acquired series,” said ION Media Networks executive VP of programming Leslie Chesloff.
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