Youku/Tudou Sony deal

November 6, 2012, BEIJING: China’s Youku Tudou has secured a five-year deal with Sony Pictures Television that brings some 300 new titles to the premium online video platform, which already has agreements in place with studios such as Twentieth Century Fox, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. and more.

Three hundred titles from the Sony Pictures catalogue—including Groundhog Day, The Fisher King, Men in Black 3, The Amazing Spider-Man and 21 Jump Street—will be available for on-demand viewing. They will be part of the Youku Premium platform.

Youku Tudou, which combines two of China’s largest online video platforms, already has agreements in place with DreamWorks, Paramount, Disney, Lionsgate and others.

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