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Lovefilm launches on Kindle Fire

TV and movie streaming service Lovefilm has launched on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablet and e-readers in the UK and Germany. Consumers owning the devices can access Lovefilm content via a one-month free trial. Kindle and Lovefilm are both part of Amazon. The Lovefilm service on the Kindle devices allows users to […]

Canal Plus chief: Amazon will launch French SVOD service in March

Canal Plus CEO Bertrand Meheut has claimed that Amazon will likely launch a subscription video-on-demand service in France in March next year. Meheut, giving evidence before the French Conseil d’Etat to support Canal Plus’s case against the country’s competition authority’s ruling on its merger with TPS and subsequent remedies, said that the pay TV operator […]

Lovefilm brings Twentieth Century Fox to UK service

Amazon-owned online video service Lovefilm has struck a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution that will give UK subscribers access to the Hollywood studio’s second pay television window. The deal will see Lovefilm have access to Fox’s 2011 theatrical slate in March 2013. It will also give customers access to series including early seasons […]

Amazon to produce kids, comedy series

Amazon Studios, the nascent production arm of the online retail giant, is moving into kids and comedy following its launch 18 months ago. 
 The company set up Amazon Studios in November 2010 to develop scripts and produce feature films and has 15 projects currently in development. 
It will now produce kids and comedy content […]

Viacom inks content deal with Amazon

Viacom has concluded a deal with Amazon that will let the online retailer’s customers stream content from channels including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo. The agreement follows similar deals with other US majors including Sony and Warner Bros. The deal means that Amazon’s premium customers, who pay US$79 (€60) a year […]

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