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Amazon’s LOVEFiLM Signs Content Deal With Sony Pictures Television

By TechTaffy Desk

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LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, and Sony Pictures Television have signed a multi-year content deal giving LOVEFiLM members exclusive streaming access to new and forthcoming Sony Pictures titles during the second subscription pay TV window, as well as catalog titles and TV series, from June 2012.

The agreement with Sony Pictures Television is the latest in a line of exclusive content deals announced by Amazon’s LOVEFiLM in the UK in recent months, including deals with Warner Bros., Entertainment One, STUDIOCANAL, Disney, Momentum and Lionsgate.

LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, is an European film subscription service with more than 1.8 million members in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

The size of the deal was not disclosed.

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