Starz Play has announced an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its award-winning movies and series to the services subscribers. The agreement adds a large number of blockbuster action and animation movies along with award-winning TV series to the Starz Play content library. Khaled Benchouche, SVP of Programming & Acquisition at Starz Play, […]
Starz Play has announced an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to provide its award-winning movies and series to the services subscribers.
The agreement adds a large number of blockbuster action and animation movies along with award-winning TV series to the Starz Play content library.
Khaled Benchouche, SVP of Programming & Acquisition at Starz Play, commented: We are delighted to be working with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to bring its content to Starz Play. This deal meets the rising demand for premium OTT titles and recognizes the unique opportunities available to the MENA region.
By providing a host of well-known titles such as the series How I Met Your Mother, American Horror Story, The Americans, The Strain, Sons of Anarchy, 24 and Homeland and movies including A Good Day To Die Hard, The Wolverine and Turbo, our content library becomes even richer and more relevant to the regions young population, Benchouche continued.
We are thrilled to have closed our first deal with Starz Play and look forward to building upon our new partnership, said Kristen Finney, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa, 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.
With its SVOD service available throughout 19 countries in the MENA region, Starz Play will be the perfect SVOD home for audiences to further enjoy our television series and films.
Popular Fox movies will be available on starzplay.com including horror movie The Hills Have Eyes 2 and action-comedy The Heat. The service will also welcome animated titles such as How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Croods, Epic, and The Penguins of Madagascar some of the studios highest grossing movies. TV series also include the first five seasons of American Horror Story, the first two seasons of The Americans, the first four seasons of Homeland and season one of The Strain. In addition, subscribers will also enjoy the first season of the ground-breaking series, Empire beginning February 2017.
