{"id":3931,"date":"2012-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/12\/sky-pacts-with-mgm-for-james-bond-film-catalogue\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:00:00","slug":"sky-pacts-with-mgm-for-james-bond-film-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/04\/12\/sky-pacts-with-mgm-for-james-bond-film-catalogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Pacts with MGM for James Bond Film Catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LONDON: Sky has scored the entire James Bond film library from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for its Sky Movies service, where the titles will be available starting in October.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Sky Movies Showcase HD customers gain access to 22 official Bond titles from EON&nbsp;Productions. Two non-EON titles,<em> Casino Royale<\/em> and <em>Never Say Never Again<\/em>, will also be available. The upcoming Bond film, <em>Skyfall<\/em>, which gets a theatrical release in the U.K. on October 25, joins Sky Movies Box Office and the Sky Store in spring 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The first film in the franchise, <em>Dr. No<\/em>, was released on October 5, 1962. The films come into license coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Bond.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&quot;We are simply delighted to have secured the Bond films for our customers,&rdquo; commented Ian Lewis, the director of Sky Movies. &quot;Everything about these films is iconic&mdash;whether it&#8217;s the cars, the gadgets or the catchphrases. What&#8217;s more, they&#8217;ve become hugely significant culturally; demonstrating the best of British film. It&#8217;s an honor for us to have all of them for our customers, and we will ensure that we do them justice across Sky Movies, giving our customers the best possible experience in watching them. It&#8217;s an exciting time for Sky Movies and this is just one of many exciting plans we have coming up in the months ahead.&quot; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Chris Ottinger, the president of international television distribution and acquisitions at MGM, said, &quot;It is the first time that the entire Bond collection will be shown side-by-side on one channel and we are really pleased to be able to showcase all of the British classics on Sky Movies.&quot; <br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Sky has scored the entire James Bond film library from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for its Sky Movies service, where the titles will be available starting in October. Sky Movies Showcase HD customers gain access to 22 official Bond titles from EON&nbsp;Productions. Two non-EON titles, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again, will also be available. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sky Pacts with MGM for James Bond Film Catalogue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sky Pacts with MGM for James Bond Film Catalogue . LONDON, April 12: Sky has scored the entire James Bond film library from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for its Sky Movies service, where the titles will be available starting in October. . 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