Amazon's LOVEFiLM Signs Twentieth Century Fox Content Deal

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Amazon's LOVEFiLM Signs Twentieth Century

Fox Content Deal

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 25, 2012

LONDON

,

June 25, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

LOVEFiLM, an Amazon Company, and Twentieth Century Fox Television

Distribution have today announced a major multi-year content deal giving

LOVEFiLM members streaming access to recent and forthcoming movies and

TV series.

LOVEFiLM members will have instant, exclusive on-demand access to what is

known as the second pay television window of Twentieth Century Fox film

content.

The film deal commences with titles theatrically released in the UK in 2011,

which will be made available to subscribers to the LOVEFiLM service as early as

March 2013

.

The deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution will also give

LOVEFiLM members access to movies and TV series from the studio's library of

much-loved titles, and will add to LOVEFiLM's already extensive TV catalogue.

TV titles from Twentieth Century Fox's television library, available from

July

2012

, will include early seasons of motorcycle drama

Sons of Anarchy

and all

seasons of

24, Prison Break, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

and its spin-off

Angel

.

LOVEFiLM members will be able to enjoy these, and a huge range of other

titles, on-demand as part of their subscription via the LOVEFiLM Instant service

- available on the PC, Mac or via Sony Playstation®3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Apple

iPad® and a growing number of Internet-connected TV sets and Blu-ray

players.

This is the latest in a long line of content deals announced by LOVEFiLM in the

past 12 months, including agreements with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, NBC

Universal, Entertainment One, STUDIOCANAL, Disney, ABC, BBC and ITV.

Amazon's LOVEFiLM will continue to rent Twentieth Century Fox titles on DVD,

Blu-ray and Blu-Ray 3D via its LOVEFiLM By Post service.

Jim Buckle, MD of LOVEFiLM,

said: "It feels great to announce another major

studio deal for LOVEFiLM. Twentieth Century Fox is one of the world's leading

studios, known across the globe for creating fantastic, iconic content. This

partnership will give LOVEFiLM members access to the studio's huge range of

recent movies and the opportunity to revisit some of the best American TV

series produced in recent years."

Gina Brogi, EVP of Worldwide Pay Television and Subscription Video

on Demand for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution

added:

"We are delighted to be partnered with LOVEFiLM on this new window for Fox

films in the UK. This film and series agreement enables us to give UK fans yet

another avenue to enjoy the great stories and characters they have come to

know and love from our studio."