ARTS ALLIANCE MEDIA ADDS PATHÉ TO
DOWNLOAD LIBRARY
LONDON, 10th October 2007 – Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, has added content from Pathé to its roster of content available for download. The deal announced today will see titles including Talk To Her, Memento and The Queen being made available for customers to rent, from £2.99. The deal also covers Pathé’s forthcoming available current titles.
The titles will be available via AAM’s download site Vizumi, www.vizumi.com and also from AAM’s partner sites in the Vizumi Network such as LOVEFiLM (www.lovefilm.com), AOL (www.aol.co.uk) and Emap’s Empire (www.empiremoviedownloads.com).
“Pathé has a great range of titles, from foreign language classics to arthouse hits, and we’re delighted that we can now offer customers the ability to download them from Vizumi” said Mark Livingstone, AAM President.
Arts Alliance Media has the largest aggregated online distribution rights collection in Europe, with the Vizumi Network currently carrying content from some of the major studios. Vizumi also provides content for, and powers downloads on a number of partner sites - a complete list of which can be seen at www.vizumi.com.
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Notes to Editors:
About Arts Alliance Media:
- Arts Alliance Media (AAM), based in London and Paris, 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. AAM was founded in 2003 by Thomas C. Hoegh who serves as Chairman of the Board.
- For European Download-to-Rent and Download-to-Own services, 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. A complete list of content and distribution partners can be seen at www.vizumi.com.
- AAM is the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, and provides the technology and content for their movie download service.
- 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.
- AAM has signed long term Virtual Print Fee (VPF) agreements with Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Pictures International for digital cinema deployment across Europe, for close to 7000 screens over the next few years.
- AAM completed the UK Film Council digital cinema rollout of 240 screens on April 30th, 2007. The company is also participating in two digital cinema trials in Europe, one in the UK at the Odeon Surrey Quays multiplex, since February 2007, and the other in Norway, in various cinemas across the country, since April 2006. To date, AAM’s in-house digital cinema lab has encoded 200 digital cinema titles and shipped over 3000 digital prints.
For further information, please contact:
Kate Pidgeon: Arts Alliance Media 020 7751 7512
kate@artsalliancemedia.com