EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Play has landed one other carriage deal within the Philippines.
An settlement struck with Filipino cell providers present Sensible Communications will present Sensible 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 through an app.
Lionsgate Play’s library contains the John Wick, Starvation Video games and Twilight franchises, function movies akin to La La Land and Marvel and sequence together with the Energy franchise, Gaslit, Celebration Down, Ramy, Minx and The Serpent Queen.
“Our partnership with Sensible is an integral a part of our continued growth efforts throughout Southeast Asia,” mentioned 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 Sensible is the proper accomplice 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 Client Wi-fi Enterprise at Sensible. “By this partnership, we reinforce our mission to make it possible for each Sensible person has extra choices to benefit from the content material they need to eat.”
Lionsgate Play first launched in 2020, in India, with a mannequin to make Hollywood content material obtainable domestically 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 sturdy subscriber bases.
The Southeast Asia area’s streaming biz has been hit up to now yr, nonetheless, as each Disney+ and Prime Video selected to cease producing originals to refocus development on Asian markets akin to Japan and Korea. Lionsgate Play has produced a couple of originals, together with romantic school drama U-Particular.