Mubi is including over 50 options from the Sony Pictures’ library to its U.S. streaming service. The mixture of studio and arthouse fare consists of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, The Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich and movies from Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodovar and Guillermo Del Toro.
The firm’s rising and world streaming service at present gives over 900 titles within the U.S., the place it provides one new movie to the platform each day. The Sony deal is a big haul, particularly since studios have turn out to be extra aggressive in retaining content material for their very own providers. Sony, uniquely, doesn’t have a streaming platform in-house.
Each Sony movie has its personal window, with some accessible already and all biking onto the service in some unspecified time in the future via the top of 2024. Others titles within the deal embody 2046 by Wong Kar-wai; Volver by Almodóvar; Safe by Todd Haynes; To Sleep With Anger by Charles Burnett; Paprika by Satoshi Kon; Wed Anderson’s Bottle Rocket; Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon; The Devil’s Backbone by Guillermo Del Toro; The Rider by Chloe Zhao, Orlando by Sally Potter, Husbands by John Cassavetes and Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman
Mubi can also be a distributor and, extra not too long ago, a producer. South Korea’s Oscar short-listed Decision To Leave by Park Chan-wook is its largest U.S. launch but. Sundance and Berlin acquisition Passages, by Ira Sachs, opens in August.
In early 2022, the corporate acquired gross sales and manufacturing firm The Match Factory and Match Factory Productions. It introduced its manufacturing of Zia Anger’s My First Film final fall.
Mubi Go, a profit for premium streaming subscribers, gives a free film ticket for a particular movie every week in NYC, LA, Chicago, Seattle, Portland and Denver — rolling out to extra markets this yr because it clinches offers with theaters. Indie distributors whose movies have been Mubi picks of the week say it undoubtedly helps get audiences out.
Mubi’s base plan within the U.S. is $12.99 a month, or $17.99 with Mubi Go. It doesn’t launch sub numbers however says it has 12 million members, a group of people that have interaction or have accounts with Mubi.
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