Cited: ABC News

Cable RemoteThe Mouse House has renewed its relationship with Starz while Showtime has strengthened its stable with an output deal with DreamWorks Studios.  Showtime’s deal with DreamWorks will provide the pay cabler with up to 35 Disney-distributed titles released between this year and 2015. Disney, meanwhile, announced it has extended its output deal with Starz for another three years. Starz has pay TV rights to all titles released through 2015 by Walt Disney Pictures, Disney-Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures.

The Showtime-DreamWorks deal has long been in the works, since shortly after Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider’s reconstituted DreamWorks set up shop with the Mouse last year. Pact was announced earlier this month by Showtime Networks chairman Matthew Blank and Disney-ABC Domestic TV prexy Janice Marinelli.

CBS Corp.-owned Showtime has been in the hunt for new sources of theatrical product ever since it parted ways with Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures and MGM, which joined forces to launch a rival pay TV service, Epix.

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“This ups the ante on the visibility of our feature film lineup,” Blank told Daily Variety of the DreamWorks pact. “This is the right number of films from people we like and respect, and we know they’ll do well in the marketplace.”

The guarantee of pay TV coin is an important funding component for any sizable pic producer. The licensing fees are typically structured as a small percentage of a film’s domestic box office, though those formulas have been changing in recent years to give pay TV providers more flexibility to spend less for lesser-performing titles. Pay TV nets typically get access to a title 10 months after its theatrical release for an 18-month window.

Along with DreamWorks, Showtime has pic-licensing pacts with Summit Entertainment, the Weinstein Co., Miramax and its sibling CBS Films unit. The Summit pact has been particularly fruitful, bringing in the “Twilight” franchise as well as Oscar best picture champ “The Hurt Locker.”

Blank noted that the company has cut deals with a number of smaller distributors that will add 20-25 more pics to its menu a year. Showtime had been under some pressure after the split with Par, Lionsgate and MGM to ensure it had a steady stream of feature titles as called for in its contracts with cable and satellite operators.

Among the first titles expected to be released by the new-model DreamWorks is futuristic drama “Real Steel,” starring Hugh Jackman.

The Disney-Starz deal ensures that Starz will have pay TV rights to the next generation of Marvel-branded theatrical product. Disney has been in the pay TV biz with Starz since the Liberty Media-owned service bowed in 1994; its most recent pact would have expired with Mouse House releases through 2012.

Starz was a pioneer in securing broadband exhibition rights as part of its overall pay TV output deals, and the extension with Disney continues to give Starz Internet rights to the pics within the pay TV window. Starz struck a deal in late 2008 with Netflix to offer Web streaming (for a fee) of some of its theatrical titles. There were rumblings a year ago that Disney was unhappy about the exposure of its pics in the Starz-Netflix pact, but the Mouse is not believed to have taken any steps to block the Netflix streaming with the extension of the Starz deal.

“This agreement secures our ability to meet the needs of current and future subscribers in a fast-changing media landscape,” said Starz Entertainment prexy Bill Myers.

Sony Pictures has also signed on with Starz’s in another major output deal.

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