Fox’s Tubi Inks Exclusive Lionsgate Deal to Stream 30 Films for Free
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorTubi snared a multiyear deal with Lionsgate to be the exclusive ad-supported VOD streaming service for 30 feature films.The agreement encompasses titles not covered under Lionsgate’s Pay 1 theatrical output agreement with Starz, the cable and streaming provider that Lionsgate is in the midst of spinning off.
Under the agreement, Tubi, which is part of Fox Entertainment, also will add more than 200 Lionsgate library titles to the free service.Among the Lionsgate films covered under the deal are: erotic thriller “Shattered,” starring John Malkovich, Frank Grillo, Cameron Monaghan and Lily Krug (currently streaming on Tubi); cop drama “Pursuit,” starring John Cusack and Emile Hirsch (coming to the service on June 27); and “Wolf Hound,” about a Jewish-American pilot shot down behind Nazi lines during World War II, starring Trevor Donavan, James Maslow and Michael Wayne Foster (streaming on Tubi in the fall of 2022).
Tubi and Lionsgate teased that other soon-to-be announced “star-driven titles” coming to the free streamer will star Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Anna Paquin and Martin Lawrence.It’s the third streaming deal Lionsgate has secured in the last two months.
In April, the company inked a Pay 2 window movie output deal with Roku followed by one with NBCUniversal’s Peacock last month.
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