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In an exclusive deal that will give its movies a home on cable TV, the Weinstein Co. has agreed to a seven-year deal to show its films via CBS Corp.'s Showtime Networks Inc.
The move comes nearly three months after Paramount Pictures, Showtime's corporate cousin at Viacom Inc., spurned the cable channel and formed a cable venture with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The move deprived Showtime of its main source of new feature films....
In an exclusive deal that will give its movies a home on cable TV, the Weinstein Co. has agreed to a seven-year deal to show its films via CBS Corp.'s Showtime Networks Inc.
The move comes nearly three months after Paramount Pictures, Showtime's corporate cousin at Viacom Inc., spurned the cable channel and formed a cable venture with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. The move deprived Showtime of its main source of new feature films....
