The growth in value of in-play clip and short-form highlights rights will outstrip the growth in value of live rights according to five-year projections by Two Circles. Using its proprietary media-modelling techniques, the data-driven sports marketing agency projects the global sports media rights market will be worth $60.9 billion (€50.7bn) in 2024 – up from […]
HBO Max will bring Japan’s celebrated, Oscar-winning animation house, Studio Ghibli, to its slate of premium content that will be available at launch in the spring of 2020. HBO Max will be the US streaming home to the entire Studio Ghibli film library. The deal with North American distributor GKIDS for the twenty-one Studio Ghibli feature […]
StarHub has agreed a deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to show up to seven live games per week through NBA TV, the NBA’s 24/7 dedicated channel. Additionally, StarHub will offer select NBA Playoffs games, as well as the entirety of the Conference Finals and The Finals. NBA TV HD channel will be available […]
Netflix and Globe Studios have confirmed that they will be bringing Filipino film Dead Kids, exclusively to the global streaming service. Dead Kids is directed by award-winning director, Mikhail Red, who is known for his internationally acclaimed films Birdshot and Eerie – both of which are also streaming on Netflix. Dead Kids is a story […]
E4 has acquired the UK exclusive broadcast rights for new CBS comedy Man With A Plan, starring Matt LeBlanc. The deal with CBS Studios International also gives E4 the UK linear television premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Discovery, which had previously only been available to watch on Netflix in the UK, and Man […]
Netflix has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, Bone, with plans to develop an animated kids series that follows the iconic Bone cousins on an adventure through an uncharted desert and into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Bone has been published […]
Research from Ampere Analysis finds that over one quarter of all content spend worldwide is devoted to sports rights. In 2018, 26 per cent of global content spend was focused on sports rights acquisition at a value of nearly $38 billion (€34.4bn). This figure has almost doubled from $20 billion in 2012. Put another way, […]
Movie exhibition company AMC Theatres is extending its business into the home. Members of the company’s AMC Stubs loyalty plan in the United States can rent or buy approximately 2,000 of the most popular digital movies from the top Hollywood studios at AMCTheatres.com as well as on the AMC Theatres mobile, connected devices and Smart […]
Spain’s fourth largest operator Másmóvil is entering the country’s football TV war by offering all matches from La Liga and the Champions through Mediaset’s OTT Mitele Plus. Másmóvil’s Agile TV service will allow its subscribers to subscribe to Mitele Plus to watch all football on the platform at €19 a month for La Liga and […]
BBC Studios has licensed over 800 hours of content to clients across the African continent in the past six months; striking a first agreement in the Seychelles, securing the largest package deal with a free-to-air broadcaster in Kenya, and extending access to BBC Studios content through SVoD services in 22 African markets. The first ever […]