Redbox & Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Announce Multi-Year, Day-And-Date Deal
CHICAGO, and CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Redbox and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE), have signed a new multi-year distribution deal continuing to make SPHE titles available at Redbox® kiosks the same day as retail sell-through dates. Additionally, as part of the deal SPHE titles will also be available on Redbox On Demand.
"Sony Pictures Home Entertainment continues to be a great partner in making their content accessible to Redbox consumers no matter how they want to watch it," said Galen Smith, CEO of Redbox. "We're excited about their 2019 content slate and look forward to making it available at our kiosks and through Redbox On Demand."
"Redbox continues to be an important distribution partner for our content. At Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, we are committed to satisfying all the ways audiences engage with entertainment, and our deal with Redbox is an important part of our efforts to provide a wide range of options for our consumers," said Jason Spivak, Executive Vice President, Distribution, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The new deal goes into effect with SPHE's latest and upcoming home entertainment releases, including Goosebumps 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Holmes & Watson.
Redbox is the nation's leading movie rental destination averaging about one million rentals per day across its network of more than 41,500 kiosks and streaming via Redbox On Demand. Redbox On Demand complements the company's new-release offering at kiosks and broadens Redbox's title selection via transactional video on demand (VOD) and electronic sell-through (EST).
ABOUT REDBOX
With more than 5 billion rentals to date, Redbox is America's leading source for affordable new release movie and video game rentals. Redbox offers DVD, Blu-ray Disc® and video-game rentals through the nation's largest network of more than 41,500 conveniently located, self-service entertainment kiosks, and On Demand movies and TV shows, without a subscription. For more information, visit www.redbox.com.
ABOUT SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. SPE is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production, acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. SPE's Motion Picture Group includes film labels Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Sony Pictures Classics. For additional information, visit
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