Movistar+ Re-Ups Deal for Sony Movies in Spain

Movistar+ and Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) have renewed their feature film agreement, which now includes such hit titles as the Oscar-nominated Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood.

Fellow Oscar nominees Little Women and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood will also soon arrive on the platform. The renewed deal additionally includes Spider-Man: Far From Home, Jumanji: The Next Level, Men in Black: International, Bad Boys for Life, Angry Birds 2, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Morbius. A number of classic SPE features are part of the deal as well, including Philadelphia, Seven Years in Tibet, Taxi Driver, Stand by Me and Karate Kid.

The current agreement for the carriage of AXN and AXN White channels, as well as SPE’s VOD service AXN Now, has also been extended.

Mark Young, executive VP of distribution and networks for Western Europe at Sony Pictures Television, said, “We are incredibly pleased to be able to renew this deal with our partners at Movistar+. We have enjoyed a long-running and broad relationship across our media networks, pay television and transactional businesses, and we now look forward to the next phase as we deliver our most recent box-office hits and the breadth of our library features to the Spanish audience.”

Álex Martínez Roig, content director at Movistar+, said, “The renewal of our agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment, confirms our intent to partner with the most powerful content generators in the international marketplace. Their catalog is extraordinary and maintains our movie offer strength as the best in the Spanish market.”