{"id":1656,"date":"2016-11-24T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2016-11-24T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T05:15:02","slug":"canal-scores-disney-deal-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvmiddleeastafrica\/canal-scores-disney-deal-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Canal+ Scores Disney Deal for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Canal+ has signed an agreement with The Walt Disney Company for first- and second-window rights in Africa to a range of series and movies, including the latest release from the <em>Star Wars<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the pact, Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios and Pixar films will be added to the Canal+ platform in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Among the movies included are the new <em>Star Wars<\/em> film<em> Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>, as well as <em>The Jungle Book<\/em> and <em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em>, while series offerings will include <em>black-ish<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the agreement will see Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior and Disney Cinema being carried on the Canal+ Overseas platform. The platform is available in 25 countries across\u00a0French-speaking Africa,\u00a0where it has around 2 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted with this agreement, which allows us to offer our African subscribers the excellent productions of Disney studios and major youth channels for all ages,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Deplanck, the director of channels and content at Canal+ Overseas. \u201cThe match between our family audiences and the content developed by Disney makes this an ideal partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that 2\u00a0million subscribers in Africa are discovering or rediscovering the great Disney, Pixar, Marvel or <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies and now have access to all of our Disney channels,\u201d said Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Camilleri, country manager for The Walt Disney Company in France, Belgium, Holland, Maghreb and Francophone Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Canal+ has signed an agreement with The Walt Disney Company for first- and second-window rights in Africa to a range of series and movies, including the latest release from the Star Wars franchise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[259,260],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-canal","tag-the-walt-disney-company"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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