Tokyo/Burbank – Jupiter Entertainment Co. Ltd. has acquired the rights to a slate of more than 80 theatrical motion picture titles for broadcast in Japan on its movie specialty channel Movie Plus via a three-year licensing agreement with Warner Bros. International Television, a division of Warner Entertainment Japan Inc. The announcement was made by Hiroyuki Nakatani, representative director and president, Jupiter Entertainment Co., Ltd. and Mitsuru Oda, vice president and general manager, Warner Bros. International Television, a division of Warner Entertainment Japan Inc. Under terms of the agreement, Jupiter will have the rights to broadcast, on its Movie Plus CS basic channel, a number of recent feature films distributed by the Studio, as well as a slate of pictures from the Warner Bros. Entertainment collection, beginning in spring 2009. Titles licensed for Movie Plus include The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Bodyguard, and the Steven Spielberg-presented/Richard Donner-directed Goonies, among many others.
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