Viaplay Adds More Disney, Sony Titles

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group’s online pay-TV service Viaplay has scored additional license agreements with The Walt Disney Company Nordic and Sony Pictures Television, adding a further 500 movie titles for subscribers in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

The deal includes some 300 films from the Sony Pictures Television catalogue, including Salt, The Karate Kid, Eat Pray Love and library features such as The Blue Lagoon, Easy Rider and Serpico. A further 200 movies come from The Walt Disney Company Nordic. This includes recent hits such as Tangled, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Chronicles of Narnia and classics such as Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Pretty Woman. Viasat already has exclusive first-run license agreements with Disney and Sony Pictures Television.

Niclas Ekdahl, the CEO of Viaplay, commented: “Disney and Sony Pictures are two of the largest movie studios in the world, and our feature lineup will now include even more of their hugely successful movie titles. Subscribers to the Viaplay service will now be able to access an even broader lineup of premium content on multiple devices in and out of the home, and on an ‘anytime, anywhere’ basis. We are constantly adding to our content offering, and making our service available on more and more consumer devices.”

“We are constantly looking for new partnerships that can bring our content to consumers in more flexible ways, this cooperation with Viaplay is a great example of that, and we look forward be able to offer the audience more accessibility to our content,” added Franca Rossander, the director of media distribution at The Walt Disney Company Nordic.