Netflix and Sony Photos Leisure (SPE) have introduced a worldwide Pay-1 licensing deal.
Unique settlement
Within the unique multi-year settlement, SPE’s function movies will stream on Netflix worldwide — an industry-first for Pay-1 — following their full theatrical and residential leisure home windows.
The brand new international Pay-1 association will roll out steadily beginning later this yr as particular person territory rights develop into out there, with full international availability on Netflix in early 2029. As a part of this deal, Netflix may even license rights to pick SPE function movie and tv library titles.
Netflix at present has Pay-1 rights to SPE’s function movies in choose territories together with the US, Germany, and throughout Southeast Asia. Hit movies from the present deal embody Uncharted, Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse, It Ends With Us, Anybody However You, and Venom: The Final Dance.
Iconic franchises
“Our members all around the world love films and giving them unique entry to Sony’s a lot liked movies provides unbelievable worth to their subscriptions,” mentioned Lauren Smith, vice chairman of Licensing and Programming Technique at Netflix. “Sony’s spectacular slate of iconic movie franchises like Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse and originals like Anybody However You have been common with our US viewers and now we’re excited to develop that providing to our members all around the globe.”
“Our partnership with Netflix has all the time been extremely invaluable,” mentioned Paul Littmann, EVP of World Distribution, Sony Photos Tv. “This new Pay-1 deal takes that partnership to the subsequent degree and reinforces the enduring enchantment of our theatrical releases to Netflix’s international viewers. It additionally additional underscores the energy of our independence and distinctive capacity to create significant alternatives that profit our artistic stakeholders, customers, and world-class companions.”
Among the first SPE function movie titles that can stream on Netflix as a part of the brand new deal embody The Nightingale, the extremely anticipated adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s international sensation starring Dakota and Elle Fanning collectively for the primary time; Sony Photos Animation’s Buds; Nintendo’s live-action The Legend of Zelda; Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse, the conclusion to the groundbreaking Spider-Verse trilogy; and Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes’ audacious quartet of Beatles movies.
