Fox Announces U.K. Digital Download Deal

LONDON, April 17: European digital film distributor
Arts Alliance Media (AAM)
has reached a deal to bring content from Twentieth Century Fox to its Vizumi
Network on both download-to-rent and download-to-own bases.

New release
titles available for download to own on the service include Little Miss
Sunshine, The Devil
Wears Prada, Borat and Night
At The Museum while
catalogue films available for both download to own and download to rent include
Die Hard, X-Men, Speed and Me, Myself and Irene.

The content
will be available on AAM’s download site, www.vizumi.com,
and will also be distributed to AAM’s partner sites, including LOVEFiLM (www.lovefilm.com), AOL (www.aol.co.uk) and Empire (www.empiremoviedownloads.com).

Jamie McCabe,
the EVP of pay-per-view, VOD and electronic sell-through at Fox, noted: “Arts
Alliance Media has demonstrated a keen understanding of the online distribution
of film. We look forward to working with them to develop this nascent business.”