Netflix Grabs Sony's Pay-TV Movie Deal From Starz

Video-streaming veteran Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) just signed a multiyear content deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment. Starting in 2022, Sony will move its exclusive pay-TV distribution window from longtime partner Starz to Netflix, putting the studio's theatrical releases on Netflix's global streaming platform.

Sony and Netflix already had a streaming agreement for animated content, but this deal expands that partnership to all genres and production types. Titles making their home entertainment premiere in 2022 on Netflix rather than Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF-A) (NYSE: LGF-B) subsidiary Starz will include the Brad Pitt thriller Bullet Train, the ensemble-cast action movie Uncharted, and the Reese Witherspoon-produced murder drama Where the Crawdads Sing.

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