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  • Netflix pips Starz to acquire movie rights from Disney

    Netflix pips Starz to acquire movie rights from Disney

    MUMBAI: Leading internet subscription service provider Netflix has signed a multi-year premium pay TV window agreement with The Walt Disney Studios in the United States.

    The new multi-year licensing agreement will make Netflix the exclusive US subscription television service for first-run live-action and animated feature films from The Walt Disney Studios.

    The three-year agreement takes effect in 2016 when premium movie service provider Starz‘s deal with Disney-ABC Domestic Television ends in 2015. Starz had signed a new, exclusive long-term licensing agreement for theatrical releases from The Walt Disney Studios.

    Beginning with its 2016 theatrically released feature films, new Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disney nature titles will be made available for Netflix members to watch instantly in the pay TV window on multiple platforms, including television, tablets, computers and mobile phones.

    Also included in the agreement are high-profile Disney direct-to-video new releases, which will be made available on Netflix starting in 2013.

    Separately, Disney and Netflix have reached agreement on a multi-year catalog deal that brings to US Netflix members Disney movies such as "Dumbo," "Pocahontas" and "Alice in Wonderland."

    "Disney and Netflix have shared a long and mutually beneficial relationship and this deal will bring to our subscribers, in the first pay TV window, some of the highest-quality, most imaginative family films being made today," said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.

    "It‘s a bold leap forward for Internet television and we are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen."

    "With this cutting-edge agreement, we are thrilled to take our highly valued relationship with Netflix to the next level by adding Disney‘s premier films to their programming line-up," said Disney-ABC Domestic Television President Janice Marinelli.

    "Netflix continues to meet the demands of its subscribers in today‘s rapidly evolving digital landscape, and we are delighted that they will have much earlier access to our top-quality and entertaining slate," she continued.

  • E-City Films to release Hollywood film ‘The New World’ in India

    E-City Films to release Hollywood film ‘The New World’ in India

    MUMBAI: E-City Films will release this year’s Oscar nominated Hollywood Blockbuster The New World in India on 7 April. Directed by Terence Malick and inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, the movie explores the story of love, loss and discovery, both a celebration and an elegy of the America that was and the America that was yet to come.
    The film was nominated for this year’s Oscar Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki).

    Speaking on the release of the film, E-City Films chief executive officer Atul Goel said, ” The Multiplex revolution has paved way for the English movie market in India, which can be pegged at Rs.1 billion approx. We are looking at a 30 per cent growth in this business. It is an excellent business arena to broach upon.”

    E-City Films (I) Pvt. Ltd has so far distributed Alexander (December 2004), One Dollar Curry (February 2005), Million Dollar Baby (March 2005) and Sahara (July 2005), Truth about Love, Elvis has left the Building, Five Children and It, Cellular and many such hits in the Indian sub-continent viz. Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It has also taken the Indian lifestyle shows to the Russian television audience, informs an official release.