Mega Movie Weekend has returned, running from February 21st to 23rd, with a range titles available at promotional prices to help audiences build their digital libraries. The campaign runs across key retailers, including Prime Video, Sky Store, the Apple TV app, Rakuten TV, Virgin Media and EE TV Store, with prices starting at £2.99. Films […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment, IMAX Corporation, Mercedes-Benz and DTS, a subsidiary of Xperi, have announced that RIDEVU, SPE’s in-car entertainment service, will make IMAX Enhanced content from Sony Pictures’ library readily available in vehicles, starting in Mercedes-Benz models with latest generation MBUX this summer. This service enhancement introduces an immersive in-car entertainment experience, bringing the largest […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory reports that 2021 turned out to be another difficult year for the cinema sector in Europe. Multiple factors, like the ongoing closures of cinemas, particularly in the first half of the year, the negative effect of attendance restrictions, possible hesitancy among audiences to return to cinemas, the return of US studio […]
Viaplay and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have agreed a multi-year extension to their long-term content partnership in the Nordic region. The latest Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) films and television series will continue to receive their Nordic streaming premieres on the Viaplay service, where viewers can also watch a range of SPE’s most popular series box […]
Redbox, the US entertainment company, has revealed the most watched movies in 2021 across its AVoD and TVoD streaming service, as well as from its near 40,000 Redbox rental kiosks. Texas Killing Fields, a crime drama starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the top AVoD title; Free Guy, the action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie […]
IMAX is back, suggested CEO Richard Gelfond. Hits such as the latest James Bond outing plus sci-fi epic Dune (which helped IMAX capture 20 per cent of the record opening weekend’s box office) helped bring in the best-ever October trading month for the large cinema screen specialists. “It is clear the global film industry has […]
beIN Media Group has announced a multi-year content deal with Sony Pictures Television covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Turkey. The deal will bring some of the biggest Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) feature films including exclusive first and second window rights to beIN’s entertainment channels in MENA such as beIN Movies and […]
SF Studios, a distribution and production company in the Nordics, has signed a new home entertainment distribution deal for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs with Sony Pictures Entertainment effective January 11th, 2021. The new deal covers feature films and TV series in the Nordic and the Baltic markets. The agreement will further strengthen SF Studios’ home […]
Sky and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have agreed a new long-term partnership across the UK and Ireland, Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The deal means that all new and future Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) feature film releases including recent hits Jumanji: The Next Level, Little Women, Bad Boys For Life and the forthcoming sequel Peter […]