Written By: Rebecca D'Souza
DVD and online movie streaming site, LoveFilm, will now add more than 50 Disney titles including The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and Bedknobs and Broomsticks to its ever growing online database.
The titles will be available to all UK customers that pay a subscription fee of £5.99 and up per month.
The UK company will also make new releases like Tangled available to non-members around five months after their box office premiere for between £2.49 and £3.49 a film.
"We're working with innovative partners such as LoveFilm to offer our programming to viewers in evermore flexible, easy to access ways, and this agreement builds on our existing DVD rental partnership to further extend the availability of our films amongst UK audiences," said Catherine Powell, SVP/GM Media Distribution, The Walt Disney Company EMEA.
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LoveFilm’s agreement with Disney will provide the company with newer movies like Tron: Legacy to offer for a pay-per-view fee.
Amazon, which acquired LoveFilm in January, started a US service to compete with Netflix in February with 5,000 movies and popular TV shows.
The subscription service is an add-on to Amazon Instant Video, which offers more than 90,0000 movies and TV shows to rent or buy.
Simon Calver, Chief Executive of LoveFilm, said: "Our customers will be excited to have even more great films alongside our existing physical and digital titles. This is a great endorsement of the popularity of LoveFilm, as Disney is one of the world's leading studios."
