TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX AND ARTS
ALLIANCE MEDIA SIGN DEAL
TO DIGITALLY DISTRIBUTE FOX MOVIES
ON VIZUMI NETWORK
LONDON, 5 April 2007 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), a leading provider of digital film distribution services in Europe, and 20th Century Fox have signed a deal to distribute Fox content on AAM’s Vizumi Network. The deal covers both Download-to-Rent and Download-to-Own for both new release and catalog films.
New release titles available for download to own on the service include Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil Wears Prada, Borat, and Night At The Museum while catalog films available for both download to own and download to rent include Die Hard, X-Men, Speed and Me, Myself and Irene.
The content will be available on AAM’s download site, www.vizumi.com, and will also be distributed to AAM’s partner sites, including Empire (www.empiremoviedownloads.com) and LOVEFiLM (www.lovefilm.com), which in turn powers AOL (www.aol.co.uk).
President of Arts Alliance Media, Mark Livingstone, commented “The addition of Fox to our content library further strengthens the Vizumi Network’s position as the UK’s leading download service. We are delighted to be able to offer our customers such popular titles in a way that is convenient to them.”
Executive Vice President, PPV, VOD & EST, of Twentieth Century Fox, Jamie McCabe, said, “Arts Alliance Media has demonstrated a keen understanding of the online distribution of film. We look forward to working with them to develop this nascent business.”
Arts Alliance Media’s Vizumi Network currently carries content from Universal Pictures, Sony, Warner Bros., Momentum, Icon, Fremantle, Tartan and Discovery Networks, amongst others, and supplies content to an ever increasing list of distribution partners, including LOVEFiLM and Emap. A complete list of content and distribution partners can be seen at www.vizumi.com.
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For further information, please contact:
For Arts Alliance Media
Gemma Richardson: +44 (0)207 751 7466
For Twentieth Century Fox:
Paul Nichols
The Lippin Group (323) 965-1990
Notes to Editors:
About 20th Century Fox:
20th Century Fox is a subsidiary of News Corporation. News Corporation’s diversified global operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Basin include the production and distribution of motion pictures and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting, the publication of newspapers, magazines and books; the production and distribution of promotional and advertising products and services; the development of digital broadcasting; the development of conditional access and subscriber management systems.
About Arts Alliance Media:
- Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London, is Europe's leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.
- For Download-to-Rent and Download-to-Own, AAM provides ISPs, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and securely distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences.
- AAM remains the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, the merged company, and provides the technology and content for digital distribution.
- For digital cinema, AAM provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.
- In February 2005, Arts Alliance Digital Cinema won the UK Film Council contract to install and operate 240 digital screens, the world’s first 2k digital cinema network. AAM is participating in Odeon’s digital cinema trial, starting in February 2007, and also operates a 10-screen trial digital cinema network in Norway.
For more information, visit: www.artsalliancemedia.com