ProSiebenSat.1 Group Acquires First Broadcast Rights from Hollywood Studio Dreamworks
Munich, July 19, 2004. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has acquired Free TV first broadcast rights for future productions of Hollywood Studio Dreamworks. The agreement is included under a contract that the ProSiebenSat.1 Group extended ahead of schedule with Telepool, covering German Free TV rights for all the renowned studios film productions and selected TV series from 2006 through 2010.
Dreamworks SKG, the studio founded in 1994 by star director Steven Spielberg, former Disney head Jeffrey Katzenberg, and film and music producer David Geffen, is one of the worlds most successful production firms. The studio was responsible for such theatrical hits as Shrek, The Peacemaker, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can and Oscar winners American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind and Gladiator.
The contract represents an early extension of a 1997 agreement between the ProSiebenSat.1 Group and Telepool. At that time, Telepool acquired rights for all Dreamworks productions until 2005, and licensed them to the ProSiebenSat.1 Group and others. Among the films to appear on the ProSiebenSat.1 Groups stations in the next few years will be not only the current theatrical hit Shrek 2, but the new Spielberg film Terminal, with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The contract ensures that well have long-term access to the productions from one of todays most successful Hollywood studios, said ProSiebenSat.1 Group CEO Guillaume de Posch. It expands our position as German televisions leading provider of Hollywood blockbusters. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group has contracts with almost every US major studio, and is the Hollywood studios most important business partner in Europe. Recently the Group also inked extensive film agreements with Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Television International, Disney and Warner Bros.
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