Canal+ Group and Warner Bros Discovery have announced the renewal of their exclusive premium pay TV agreement for Warner Bros Pictures films.
The multi-year agreement will allow Canal+ Group to continue offering to its subscribers exclusive access to Warner Bros Pictures films six months after their theatrical release in France.
This catalogue will include box office blockbuster Barbie – the biggest movie of the last 12 months with a global box office of nearly $1.5billion – and Wonka, starring Timothee Chalamet, currently on a box office figure of just over $400million.
Other titles include The Flash, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, Blue Beetle, The Color Purple and The Nun II.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s catalogue includes franchises including Batman, Lethal Weapon, Ocean’s Eleven, Matrix and Mad Max.
This news comes the same weekend as reports that Warner Bros Discovery’s Nathaniel Brown is departing as its Corp Comms Chief. Deadline has learned this is an amicable departure, with Brown seguing out of the post during the next month.
“I realize there is never a perfect or easy time to make such a transition, but the start of the new year feels as good as any,” said Brown in a note to employees (read it in full below). In the immediate future, Brown plans to take some down time before returning to the corp comms field.
