In times of Corona and closed cinemas, large film studios are worried about the future. Some Hollywood studios like Warner (With HBO Max), Disney (With Disney+), Paramount (With Paramount+) and Universal (With Peacock) already have their own Streamingdienste and during this tense time you can watch your big blockbuster films there with additional costs (VIP access) offer to the audience. It looks different with Sony who do not have their own VoD service and are probably not planning either.
For that has Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) now with the global market leader Netflix one exclusive deal for the next few years and thus other providers like Amazon gouged out. The license agreement between Netflix and Sony provides that the streaming provider for upcoming Sony films such as “Uncharted“With Spidey actor Tom Holland as Nathan Drake following their cinema and home cinema exploitation exclusive first exploitation rights receives.
In the official press release There is also talk of other Sony Pictures film projects, such as the Marvel films Morbius, „Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2“, Venom 2 and Spider-Man 3, as well as planned sequels to “Jumanji“With Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson or”Bad Boys“With Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
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For the time being, the Netflix deal only applies to the USA
This extensive Netflix-Sony-Deal however, is limited for the time being only on the US markt. In Germany, there have been other agreements with studios for cinema films for some time, for example with the pay-TV broadcaster Sky Ticket, where the latest blockbusters celebrate their TV premieres at the same time as the home cinema release. It is questionable whether anything will change here in the future. Nevertheless, the US deal is likely to have an impact on the German Netflix offer.
As part of the new partnership with Netflix, Sony Pictures will grant the streaming provider one in the future First-Look-Dealwhere the film studio would like to produce future films (and maybe also series) directly for streaming or would like to license them for streaming at a later date. In return, Netflix has committed itself to co-producing a large number of these film projects.
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“Sony Pictures is a great partner and we are excited to expand our relationship with this forward-looking agreement. Not only does this allow us to bring their impressive range of beloved movie franchises and new IPs to Netflix in the US, but it also establishes a new source of premiere films for Netflix movie lovers worldwide, “ so Scott Stuber, Head of Global Films bei Netflix.
And Sony CEO Keith Le Goy for Worldwide Distribution and Networks adds: “Netflix is a great partner with whom we continue to develop our relationship. At Sony Pictures, we produce some of the biggest blockbusters and the most creative, original films in the business. This exciting agreement shows how important this content is to our distributors in order to grow their audiences and deliver the very best in entertainment. “
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