SonyLIV and Lionsgate India Partner to Launch

SonyLIV and Lionsgate India Partner to Launch LIONSGATE PLAY Premium Offering

SonyLIV, India’s premier OTT platform and VOD service, locked in a multi- year strategic content deal with American entertainment giant, LIONSGATE. At a press conference in Mumbai, Uday Sodhi, Business Head – Digital, Sony Pictures Networks India and Rohit Jain, Managing Director, Lionsgate India, inked the association and spoke about how this alliance will bring the best mix of International content to Indian digital audiences.

The embedded LIONSGATE PLAY destination on SonyLIV will roll out with over 500 hours of Lionsgate premium original series, including hits like Power,Vida, Sweetbitter, The White Queen, The White Princess and the eagerly-anticipated The Spanish Princess along with popular Lionsgate library titles such as Crash, Manhattan, Wildfire, Are We There Yet? and Chasing Life. 

For the first time ever in India, the digital viewer will get to see award winning titles and gripping dramas that have captivated audiences’ world over. IMDB 8.3 rated Power that debuts in India on SonyLIV highlights the dual life of drug dealer, James St. Patrick, striving to manage his business as a nightclub owner and has gained critical acclaim since its release and stayed on the top charts in America.  Featuring Jessie T. Usher and RonReaco Lee as leads, Survivor’s Remorse is a daring sports comedy.

Critically acclaimed series, Sweetbitter, and Vida dwelling over life altering experiences of their protagonists also make way to SonyLIV. Also included are science fictions and thrillers like Con Man and Insomnia that comprise the repertoire spanning across genres.

Lionsgate Play will be bundled within SonyLIV’s current slate of programming, significantly enhancing its premium English-language offering to viewers. The new assortment of shows will be available for viewing under SonyLIV Premium for INR 99 for a month, 299 for 6 months and INR 499 for a year.

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Uday Sodhi Business Head Digital Sony Pictures Networks India

“We’re incredibly excited to team with a prolific and innovative content powerhouse like Lionsgate. With over 500 hours of premium programming at launch, they bring to our platform a great mix of popular original series and classic Lionsgate catalogue titles, sure to resonate with our customers for years to come.”

Rohit Jain Managing Director Lionsgate India

“We are excited to partner with SonyLIV to bring Lionsgate Play in India. Our collaboration is the latest milestone in elevating our brand in India, and we’re delighted to kick off our partnership with a robust portfolio of Lionsgate programming.  Sony India as a media house has a legacy of bringing cutting-edge entertainment to Indian audiences, making them the perfect choice for us to bring to Indian audience some of our most successful premium English content. This is a great starting point for the two companies and we are excited about the journey ahead of us.”

About SonyLIV

SonyLIV is the first premium Video on demand (VOD) service by Sony Pictures Networks’ (SPN) providing multi-screen engagement for users on all devices. Launched in January 2013, it enables users to discover 20 years of rich content from the network channels of Sony Pictures Networks’ Pvt. Ltd. It also provides a rich array of movies, strong line-up of events across all sports, shows, music, product reviews.

With over 81.1 million app downloads so far, SonyLIV is the first amongst its competition to provide original exclusive premium content. As a true pioneer in its space, SonyLIV launched India’s first-ever original show exclusively for the online platform. With #LoveBytes, it became the country’s first digital video-on- demand (VOD) platform to introduce an innovation of this nature. Streaming the biggest football tournament, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and making SonyLIV the most preferred online destination for football fans. SonyLIV also live streamed the India tour of South Africa, India tour of England and is all geared up for the India tour of Australia in November 2018.

Kin is the story of family and family relationships

Kin is the story of family and family relationships:
Daniel Casey

Lionsgate’s next, Kin is all set to take us on a journey of twist and turns of events that we have never experienced before. It’s the story of a young boy trapped in unexpected circumstances and on a run with his elder brother with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.

According to the screenwriter Daniel Casey, the movie is a coming-of-age story. He explains, “Obviously for the main character, Eli, but it’s also a coming-of-age story for Jimmy, his older brother. The movie is called Kin because this is a story specifically about family and family relationships. The further we got along into developing the script and making the film, the more we realized that our story featured so many intersections of people just kind of searching for family or trying to get along with family.”

There were these elements that helped the team to provide a story structure to the movie and brought a very powerful and tricky narrative which could stand on its own even without its sci-fi details. Casey further adds, “That was a goal we all adopted as we went along, the idea to tell a story that took place in and around this family that was breaking up, that had demons, and to just kind of life with these characters as human beings rather than having to talk about spaceships. As long as your characters are working, as long as they have real emotional wants and needs, I think you wind up with a good movie first, and then the science fiction components you add on top of that to help elevate it into something distinct. The human story was always the top priority.”

With all the intriguing plots, Kin is all set to take you on a thrilling journey and we can’t wait to watch it in theaters soon.