Fox strikes VOD deal with VimpelCom

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Russian service provider VimpelCom, which operates under the Beeline brand, have struck a deal whereby titles from Fox’s catalogue of new and library films will be made available as part of the Beeline TV video-on-demand service.

The deal means that Beeline TV subsribers will be able to view movies including Alien, Die Hard, Ice Age and X-Men on VOD. New titles including The Descendants and Chronicle will made available in the course of this year.

Timur Alyautdinov, head of marketing, wired internet and TV services at VimpelCom, said that he was pleased that Beeline customers would now have access to the best of Twentieth Century Fox’s content and that he was confident the movies would prove to be very popular.