Warner Bros. to Provide Movies and TV shows through BT Vision

LONDON, March 26: Warner
Bros. Entertainment has reached an agreement with BT, a provider of
communications solutions and services, to make a number of its films and TV
shows available for online download and purchase via the new BT Vision Download
store.

Under the deal, the Warner
Bros. films that will be available through the BT Vision Download store will
include the Academy-Award-winning animated film Happy Feet, The Prestige, A Scanner Darkly, Lady
in the Water and The Ant Bully, as well as a number of catalogue titles including
Batman Begins, Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory, the Harry
Potter series, Ocean’s Twelve, The Matrix trilogy, The Last Samurai
and Troy.

The agreement builds on
BT’s existing arrangement with Warner Bros. movies for BT’s TV Service, BT
Vision. BT Vision customers already have access to a large range of Warner
Bros.’ product through the service, including current blockbuster titles and
classic movies as well as U.S. dramas and comedies such as ER, Smallville, Without a Trace, Nip/Tuck, The O.C. and The Closer, which
are all available on demand.

Dan Marks, the CEO of BT
Vision, commented: “We continue to build the range and quality of content
available from BT Vision by building the Download Store. With the addition of
Warner Bros, we are now able to make some of the most attractive of all studio
programming available to all U.K. broadband customers.”

BT Vision Download Store
is an online video store that allows broadband users to download a wide range
of film, television and music to PCs and portable devices for viewing indoors
or on the move. BT Download Store has a selection of new releases as well as
classics and lifestyle shorts.