EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Play has landed one other carriage deal within the Philippines.
An settlement struck with Filipino cellular companies present Good Communications will present Good subscribers entry to the streamer.
This marks the second telecoms tie-up for Lionsgate Play within the Philippines, coming after one struck with PLTD in 2022. The service can also be obtainable direct-to-consumer by way of an app.
Lionsgate Play’s library contains the John Wick, Starvation Video games and Twilight franchises, function movies akin to La La Land and Surprise and sequence together with the Energy franchise, Gaslit, Get together Down, Ramy, Minx and The Serpent Queen.
“Our partnership with Good is an integral a part of our continued growth efforts throughout Southeast Asia,” stated Rohit Jain, President of Lionsgate Play Asia. “This collaboration aligns with our imaginative and prescient to distribute our content material extra broadly and to diversify our subscriber base, enabling audiences to ‘play extra, browse much less.’ We’re dedicated to strategic partnerships, and Good is the right associate to assist us obtain that purpose.”
“This collaboration with Lionsgate Play solidifies our dedication to delivering the widest breadth of world-class leisure to the fingertips of Filipinos,” added Alex O. Caeg, Head of Shopper Wi-fi Enterprise at Good. “By means of this partnership, we reinforce our mission to guarantee that each Good consumer has extra choices to benefit from the content material they wish to devour.”
Lionsgate Play first launched in 2020, in India, with a mannequin to make Hollywood content material obtainable regionally in a number of Indian languages. It entered a busy regional streaming market, the place the likes of Netflix and Disney+/Disney+ Hotstar had carved out robust subscriber bases.
The Southeast Asia area’s streaming biz has been hit prior to now yr, nonetheless, as each Disney+ and Prime Video selected to cease producing originals to refocus progress on Asian markets akin to Japan and Korea. Lionsgate Play has produced just a few originals, together with romantic faculty drama U-Particular.
