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Do not fill this in! ====Former first-run contracts==== Being the first pay-cable service to go national, for many years, HBO was advantageous in acquiring film licensing rights from major and independent studios; until Showtime, The Movie Channel, and other premium channels started beefing up their movie product to compete with HBO in the early 1980s, HBO's dominance in the pay-cable led to complaints from many motion picture companies of the network holding monopoly power in the pay cable industry and a disproportionate advantage in film acquisition negotiations.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Movie makers complain of HBO 'monopoly' |periodical=Broadcasting |page=51 |date=December 5, 1977}}</ref> During the early years of premium cable, the major American movie studios often sold the pay television rights to an individual theatrical film title to multiple "maxi-pay" and "mini-pay" services—often including HBO and later, Cinemax—resulting in frequent same-month scheduling duplication amongst the competing services. From its launch as a regional service, HBO purchased broadcast rights to theatrical movies on a per-title basis. The network pioneered the pay television industry practice, known as a "pre-buy", of buying the pay-cable rights to a movie from its releasing studio before it started filming, in exchange for agreeing to pay a specified share of a film's production costs; this allowed HBO to maintain exclusivity over film output arrangements and to save money allocated for film acquisitions.<ref>{{cite news|title=HOME BOX OFFICE MOVES INTO HOLLYWOOD|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/12/magazine/home-box-office-moves-into-hollywood.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 12, 1983|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> In June 1976, it signed a four-year exclusive deal with [[Columbia Pictures]] for a package of 20 films released between January 1977 and January 1981, in exchange for then-parent company Time, Inc. committing a $5-million production financing investment with Columbia over between 12 and 18 months.<ref name="b&c-hbodeals76">{{cite magazine |title=HBO makes deals for movies, cable system |periodical=Broadcasting |page=55 |date=June 28, 1976}}<br />{{cite magazine |title=HBO makes deals for movies, cable system |periodical=Broadcasting |page=56 |date=June 28, 1976}}</ref><ref name="Movie Duels">{{cite web|title=It's Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: The Movie Duels|url=http://www.soundonsight.org/its-not-tv-hbo-the-company-that-changed-television-the-movie-duels/|author=Bill Mesce|publisher=Sound on Sight|date=September 2, 2013|access-date=February 1, 2014|archive-date=February 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101645/http://www.soundonsight.org/its-not-tv-hbo-the-company-that-changed-television-the-movie-duels/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Although HBO executives were reluctant at first to strike such arrangements, by the mid-1980s, the channel had transitioned to exclusive film output deals (now the standard among North American premium channels), in which a film studio licenses all or a proportion of their upcoming productions to a partner service over a multi-year contract. In 1983, HBO entered into three exclusive licensing agreements tied to production financing arrangements involving Tri-Star Pictures (formed as a co-production venture between Time, Inc./HBO, Columbia, and CBS Inc.), Columbia Pictures (an exclusivity-based contract extension initially covering 50% of the studio's pre-June 1986 releases with a non-compete option to purchase additional Columbia titles) and [[Orion Pictures]] (encompassing a package of 30 films, in return for financial participation and a $10-million securities investment; the deal was indirectly associated with Orion's buyout of [[Filmways]] the year prior, in which HBO bought pay television rights to the studio's films). All three deals were approved under a [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] review greenlighting the Tri-Star venture in June of that year. (The Tri-Star deal became non-exclusive in January 1988, although Showtime elected not to acquire titles from HBO's film rights lessees.)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Tri-Star gets go-ahead from Justice |periodical=Broadcasting |page=35 |date=June 28, 1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=CBS, Time Inc. (HBO) and Coca-Cola (Columbia) join forces to prime pump in movie production |periodical=Broadcasting |page=35 |date=December 6, 1982}}<br />{{cite magazine |title=CBS, Time Inc. (HBO) and Coca -Cola (Columbia) join forces to prime pump in movie production |periodical=Broadcasting |page=36 |date=December 6, 1982}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=HBO and Orion group buy into Filmways |periodical=Broadcasting |page=76 |date=February 15, 1982}}<br />{{cite magazine |title=HBO and Orion group buy into Filmways |periodical=Broadcasting |page=77 |date=February 15, 1982}}</ref> After the exclusive contract transferred to Showtime in January 1994, in July 1995, HBO preemptively signed a five-year deal with the studio that took effect in January 2000, in conjunction with a five-year extension of its existing deal with Columbia Pictures. (Columbia and TriStar's respective output deals with HBO ended on December 31, 2004, when [[Sony Pictures]] transferred exclusive pay-cable rights for their films to Starz—which {{As of|2020|May|lc=y}}, holds rights to televise all recent releases from either studio through December 2021, after which in January 2022, under a five-year agreement signed in April 2021, Netflix will assume pay television rights to its newer Sony films—after HBO declined a request by Columbia during contract negotiations to allow the studio to experimentally distribute its theatrical films via streaming video during its contract window.)<ref>{{cite news|title=H.B.O. Signs Studios' Deal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/29/business/hbo-signs-studios-deal.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 29, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TriStar titles go to Showtime|url=https://variety.com/1993/film/news/tristar-titles-go-to-showtime-108089/|author=John Dempsey|periodical=Variety|date=June 23, 1993|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=HBO grabs TriStar rights|url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/features/hbo-grabs-tristar-rights-99129219/|author=John Dempsey|periodical=Variety|date=July 10, 1995|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Starz renews deal to get Sony movies through 2021; deal seen as must-win for channel|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/starz-renews-deal-to-get-sony-movies-through-2021-deal-seen-as-must-win-for-channel/2013/02/11/fe7ae5d4-7473-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 11, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524182248/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/starz-renews-deal-to-get-sony-movies-through-2021-deal-seen-as-must-win-for-channel/2013/02/11/fe7ae5d4-7473-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html|archive-date=May 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="vty-hbounihomerun"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Sony Pictures Moves Movie Output Deal From Starz to Netflix in Rich Pact|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-sony-pictures-pay-1-starz-output-1234946413/|author1=Matt Donnelly|author2=Cynthia Littleton|periodical=Variety|date=April 8, 2021|access-date=June 17, 2021}}</ref> In February 1983, HBO signed an agreement with [[Silver Screen Partners]] (a now-defunct joint venture between HBO, Silver Screen Management, [[Thorn EMI]] and [[The Cannon Group, Inc.|The Cannon Group]]), in which HBO had right of first refusal in the film selection and received 5% of all profits derived from non-pay-cable distribution of the studio's films; the Silver Screen agreement concluded upon the studio's cessation in 1998.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=In Brief. |periodical=Broadcasting |page=120 |date=February 28, 1983}}</ref> In early 1984, HBO abandoned the exclusivity practice, citing internal research that concluded that subscribers showed indifference to efforts by premium channels to secure rights to studios' full slate of recently released films from to distinguish their programming due to [[VHS]] availability preceding pay-cable distribution in the release window. This change came after the firing of then-HBO chairman [[Frank Biondi]], reportedly for having "overextended the network in pre-buy and exclusive movie deals" as subscribership of pay-cable services declined. Biondi's replacement, Michael J. Fuchs, structured some of the subsequent deals as non-exclusive to allow HBO to divert more funding toward co-producing made-for-cable movies, other original programming, and theatrical joint ventures (via Tri-Star and Silver Screen Partners).<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: All in the Family |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=November 14, 1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: Face-lift |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=March 12, 1984}}</ref><ref name="nyt-festival"/> In July 1986, the network had signed a three-year output deal with [[New World Pictures]], whereas HBO would receive up to 75 New World films Showtime won't, which cost $50 million to sign a deal.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Daniels|first=Bill|date=1986-07-30|title=HBO Signs An Exclusive Deal For New World Theatricals; Paycabler Muffles Satisfaction|page=42|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> On August 8, 1986, HBO had inked a non-exclusive agreement with [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] to enable a package of various Lorimar-Telepictures theatrical films up to 1989, and Lorimar-Telepictures would be involved as a production partner on several made-for-HBO television movies, in exchange for worldwide distribution rights, excluding pay television, and the current plans for the agreement enables five to six films per year from Lorimar-Telepictures.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Daniels|first=Bill|date=1986-08-06|title=L-T, HBO Enter Into A Two-Way Cable Film Deal|page=58|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> In September 1986, the network signed a five-year agreement with MGM/UA Communications Co. for a package of up to 72 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and [[United Artists]] films.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: HBO-MGM deal |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=September 1, 1986}}</ref> Also that month, HBO signed a pay cable and home video agreement with film producer [[Stephen J. Friedman (producer)|Kings Road Entertainment]], which will serve eight films, with the home video rights being assigned to subsidiary [[Home Box Office, Inc.|HBO/Cannon Video]], and the first film under the eight-picture agreement between HBO and Kings Road would be ''Touch & Go'', and will cost $65-$70 million.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1986-09-24|title=HBO Buys Rights To Kings Road Pix|page=37|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> In November 1986, HBO signed an agreement with [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]] for films that ran between 1987 and 1990, along with a three-year home video rights contract for sister label HBO/Cannon Video.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1986-11-26|title=HBO/Cannon Nabs Rights To DEG Pix|page=39|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> In December 1986, HBO signed a pact with Soviet Union producer Poseidon Films, to cover Soviet-based films that covered a non-specific timespan, with the network controlling US and Canada rights.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1986-12-17|title=HBO Signs Film Pact With Soviet Union|pages=42, 80|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> In July 1987, HBO signed a five-year, $500-million deal for exclusive rights to 85 Paramount Pictures films to have been tentatively released between May 1988 and May 1993. (This solidified an existing alliance with Paramount dating to 1979, for the non-exclusive rights to the studio's films.) Though this contract would herald the end of its embargo on new film exclusivity deals, HBO's then-CEO Michael Fuchs cited Showtime–The Movie Channel parent [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom]] (which, at the time, had debt in excess of $2.4 billion) for it having to obtain exclusivity for the Paramount package, which the studio approached HBO directly to bid.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=HBO signs $500-million film deal with Paramount |periodical=Broadcasting |page=21 |date=July 20, 1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=HBO Buying Rights To Paramount Films|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/15/business/hbo-buying-rights-to-paramount-films.html|author=Geraldine Fabrikant|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 15, 1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=The HBO-Showtime struggle for Hollywood films |periodical=Broadcasting |page=38 |date=July 27, 1987}}<br />{{cite magazine |title=The HBO-Showtime struggle for Hollywood films |periodical=Broadcasting |page=39 |date=July 27, 1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Monitor: Now In HBO's Inventory. |periodical=Broadcasting |page=69 |date=December 3, 1979}}</ref> The Paramount package remained with HBO/Cinemax until December 1997; Showtime assumed the pay-cable rights to the studio's films in January 1998, under a seven-year deal reached as a byproduct of Viacom's 1994 purchase of Paramount from Paramount Communications, and held them until December 2008. (Shared rival [[Epix (TV network)|Epix]]—created as a consortium between Paramount/[[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]], Lionsgate, and now-sole owner MGM—took over pay television rights upon that network's October 2009 launch.)<ref>{{cite news|title=Showtime announces deal with Paramount|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/05/19/Showtime-announces-deal-with-Paramount/8824800856000/|work=United Press International|date=May 19, 1995|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NATPE 2009: Studio 3's New Net Will Be Epix Premium channel to launch Q4 2009|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/syndication-and-distribution/natpe-2009-studio-3%E2%80%99s-new-net-will-be-epix/50779|author=Paige Albiniak|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 27, 2009|access-date=March 23, 2015}}</ref> In March 1995, HBO signed a ten-year deal with the then-upstart [[DreamWorks Pictures|DreamWorks SKG]] valued at between $600 million and $1 billion, depending on the total output of films and generated revenue during the contract, covering the studio's tentative releases between January 1996 and December 2006.<ref>{{cite news|title=HBO Buys Rights to New Studio's Films|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/09/business/hbo-buys-rights-to-new-studio-s-films.html|author=Geraldine Fabrikant|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|date=March 9, 1995|access-date=March 19, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=HBO's 'Dream' deal: $600 million-$1 billion |author=Rich Brown |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=March 13, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=March Gladness For HBO: A Billion-Dollar Deal And Costner, Too|url=http://articles.philly.com/1995-03-14/entertainment/25701186_1_rating-dreamworks-abc|author=Lee Winfrey|agency=[[New York Daily News]] and Knight-Ridder News Service|newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=March 14, 1995}}</ref> By result of the 2004 spin-off of its animation arm [[DreamWorks Animation]] into a standalone company, DreamWorks' pay-cable distribution rights were split up into separate contracts: in March 2010, Showtime acquired the rights to live-action films from the original DreamWorks studio (coinciding with the transfer of co-production agreement from Paramount Pictures to [[Touchstone Pictures]], then a Showtime distribution partner) for five years, effective January 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=Showtime signs deal to air DreamWorks films|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dreamworks-idUSTRE62B05H20100312|work=[[Reuters]]|date=March 12, 2010}}</ref> Then in September 2011, after HBO agreed to waive the last two years of its contract, Netflix acquired the DreamWorks Animation contract effective upon the December 2012 expiration of the HBO deal. (Before the 2015 launch of HBO Now, HBO required its studio output partners to suspend digital sales of their movies during their exclusive contractual window with the network; the Netflix deal was not subject to any distribution restrictions, allowing DreamWorks Animation to continue the re-sale of its films through digital download via third-party providers.)<ref>{{cite news|title=Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/netflix-secures-streaming-deal-with-dreamworks.html|author=Brooks Barnes|author2=[[Brian Stelter]]|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 26, 2011|access-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Showtime Inks Deal With DreamWorks|url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/showtime-inks-deal-dreamworks-363405|author=R. Thomas Umstead|periodical=Multichannel News|date=March 15, 2010|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> 20th Century Fox first signed a non-exclusive deal with HBO in January 1986, covering Fox films released between 1985 and 1988, along with a production co-financing agreement involving HBO original programs; the pact transitioned to an exclusivity arrangement with the 1988 renewal.<ref name="nyt-foxhbo">{{cite news|title=Fox-Time Venture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/25/business/fox-time-venture.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 25, 1986|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: Change of heart |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=January 27, 1986}}</ref><ref name="b&c-hbofoxexclusive">{{cite magazine |title=HBO bags Fox films |periodical=Broadcasting |page=38 |date=May 16, 1988}}</ref> The first-run film output agreement with Fox was renewed by HBO for ten years on August 15, 2012 (with a provision allowing the studio to release its films through digital platforms such as [[iTunes]] and [[Amazon Prime Video|Amazon Video]] during the channel's term of license of an acquired film for the first time).<ref name="HBO Fox">{{cite news|title=HBO and 20th Century Fox renew output deal|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-hbo20th-20120815,0,5442974.story|author=Joe Flint|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 15, 2012}}</ref> While [[The Walt Disney Company]] completed its acquisition of 20th Century Fox in March 2019, Disney maintains an output deal with its in-house streaming services [[Disney+]] and [[Hulu]] for films produced or distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and its subsidiaries (which have not distributed their films over a traditional pay-cable service since the studio's agreement with HBO rival [[Starz (TV channel)|Starz]] ended in 2015). Disney continued to honor the output deal with HBO until November 2021, when WarnerMedia and Disney announced that the deal would be expanded to the end of 2022, with an amendment that would allow half of 20th Century Studios' 2022 slate to be shared between HBO or HBO Max and Disney+ or Hulu during the pay-one window beginning with ''[[Ron's Gone Wrong]]''.<ref name="20thHBO2022">{{cite web |last1=Spangler |first1=Todd |title=Disney, WarnerMedia Carve Up Fox Film Slate Streaming Rights Through End of 2022 (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/disney-warnermedia-fox-movies-streaming-2022-1235117329/ |website=Variety |date=22 November 2021}}</ref> HBO's relationship with Universal first began in March 1984, when it signed a six-year non-exclusivity deal with the studio; in April 1990, Universal elected to sign a deal with CBS for the licensing rights to a package of the studio's ten 1989 releases, bypassing the traditional pay-cable window.<ref name="b&c-hbouni84">{{cite magazine |title=HBO signs pact with Universal |periodical=Broadcasting |page=110 |date=March 19, 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; CBS Is Said to Get 10 Films To Show Before Cable TV|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/09/business/the-media-business-cbs-is-said-to-get-10-films-to-show-before-cable-tv.html|author=Geraldine Fabrikant|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 9, 1990|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=CBS takes Universal films passed on by cable |periodical=Broadcasting |page=57 |date=April 16, 1990}}</ref> The current Universal output deal—which began as an eight-year agreement that originally lasted through December 2010, assuming the studio's pay-cable rights from Starz—was renewed for ten years on January 6, 2013; the current deal gives HBO [[right of first refusal]] over select Universal titles, allowing the studio to exercise an option to license co-distributed live-action films to Showtime and animated films to Netflix if HBO elects not to obtain pay television rights to a particular film. (Universal put a 50% cap on title acquisitions for the first year of the initial 2003–10 contract, intending to split the rights between HBO and Starz as consolation for the latter outbidding HBO for the Sony Pictures output deal.)<ref name="vty-hbounihomerun">{{cite web|title=Inside Move: HBO Home Run|url=https://variety.com/2001/tv/news/inside-move-hbo-home-run-1117793244/|author=John Dempsey|periodical=Variety|date=February 6, 2001|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=HBO extends Universal deal, keeping films from Netflix|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/news/hbo-extends-universal-studio-deal-keeping-films-netflix-201204480--finance.html|website=[[Yahoo! Movies]]|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|date=January 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109032117/http://movies.yahoo.com/news/hbo-extends-universal-studio-deal-keeping-films-netflix-201204480--finance.html|archive-date=January 9, 2013}}</ref> On July 6, 2021, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group announced it would begin releasing its theatrical films on [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]] after its exclusivity agreement with HBO concludes at the end of 2021, under a fragmented window (starting within 120 days of a film's theatrical release) through which Peacock will hold exclusive rights to Universal titles in bookending four-month windows at the beginning and end of the 18-month pay-one distribution period.<ref>{{cite web|title=Universal Moves Film Licensing Deal From HBO to Peacock, Bolstering Streaming Service|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/universal-moves-hbo-peacock-streaming-service-1235012751/|author=Brent Lang|periodical=Variety|date=July 6, 2021|access-date=July 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Peacock Will Become Pay-One Partner For All Universal Pics After HBO Deal Expiration At Year's End|url=https://deadline.com/2021/07/peacock-will-become-pay-one-partner-for-all-universal-pics-after-hbo-deal-expiration-at-years-end-1234787069/|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 6, 2021|access-date=July 7, 2021}}</ref> Subsequently, [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] (on July 8) and Starz (on July 16) signed separate multi-year sub-licensing agreements, in which Universal films would stream on Prime Video and [[IMDb TV]] in a 10-month non-exclusivity window during the middle of the period and air on Starz's linear and streaming platforms following the Peacock/Amazon windows; HBO will continue to release Universal's 2021 film slate under their existing contracts through 2022, while Netflix will continue to offer the studio's animated films thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Prime Video & IMDb TV Ink Movie Licensing Deal With Universal|url=https://deadline.com/2021/07/amazon-prime-video-imdb-tv-universal-licensing-deal-1234788103/|author=Anthony D'Alessandro|author2=Nellie Andreeva|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 8, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Starz Inks Post Pay-One Licensing Deal For Universal Movies|url=https://deadline.com/2021/07/starz-post-pay-one-licensing-deal-universal-jurassic-park-dominion-1234793988/|author=Nellie Andreeva|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 15, 2021|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Netflix, Universal Extend and Expand Animated Film Licensing Deal (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-universal-dreamworks-animation-minions-1235018397/|author=Brent Lang|periodical=Variety|date=July 13, 2021|access-date=July 16, 2021}}</ref> The first-run output deal with Summit Entertainment—which initially ran through December 2017, and replaced Showtime (which had exclusive rights to its films from January 2008 until December 2012) as the studio's pay-cable output partner when it initially went into effect in 2013—was renewed by HBO for an additional four years on March 1, 2016. (Summit is currently the only "mini-major" movie studio and the only studio not among the five core majors that maintains an exclusive output deal with HBO.)<ref name="HBO Chief">{{cite news|title=HBO Chief Talks HBO Now, International Expansion and Summit Output Extension|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/hbo-chief-richard-plepler-summit-entertainment-1201720758/|author=Cynthia Littleton|periodical=Variety|date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> On March 2, 2021, it was announced that the deal with HBO through to the end of 2022 expires.<ref>{{cite web|title=Summit, HBO Sign Five-Year Output Deal|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/summit-hbo-sign-five-year-192658|author=Gregg Kilday|periodical=The Hollywood Reporter|date=May 26, 2011|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=HBO and Summit Entertainment Enter into Exclusive Output Agreement|url=http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2011/05/26/hbo-and-summit-entertainment-enter-into-exclusive-output-agreement-328415/20110526hbo04/|publisher=Home Box Office, Inc./Time Warner|via=The Futon Critic|date=May 26, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Vlessing">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lionsgate-summit-label-films-headed-to-starz-for-exclusive-first-window-4141830|title=Lionsgate, Summit Label Films Headed to Starz for Exclusive First Window|last=Vlessing|first=Etan|date=March 2, 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426164846/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lionsgate-summit-label-films-headed-to-starz-for-exclusive-first-window-4141830|archive-date=April 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> Other film studios which formerly maintained first-run pay-cable contracts with HBO have included [[American Film Theatre]] (non-exclusive, 1975–1977),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Kahn still puts his chips on cable |periodical=Broadcasting |page=52 |date=July 14, 1975}}</ref> [[Walt Disney Pictures|Walt Disney Productions]] (non-exclusive, 1978–1982),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Disney fare to cable |periodical=Broadcasting |page=42 |date=July 17, 1978}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Monitor: HBO says 'Hi, Mickey.' |periodical=Broadcasting |page=93 |date=December 22, 1980}}</ref> [[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]] (non-exclusive, 1979–1986),<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Hat in the ring. |periodical=Broadcasting |page=68 |date=October 29, 1979}}</ref> [[ITC Entertainment]] (non-exclusive, 1982–1990), New World Pictures (non-exclusive, 1982–1986), [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] (non-exclusive, 1984–1989), [[Hemdale Film Corporation]] (non-exclusive, 1982–1986; exclusive, 1987–1991)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: Exclusivity deals |periodical=Broadcasting |page=10 |date=September 29, 1986}}<br />{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: Exclusivity deals |periodical=Broadcasting |page=14 |date=September 29, 1986}}</ref> [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]] (non-exclusive, 1988–1991)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Cablecastings: De Laurentiis deal |periodical=Broadcasting |page=14 |date=December 1, 1986}}</ref> [[Lorimar Television#Theatrical films|Lorimar Film Entertainment]] (non-exclusive, 1987–1990),<ref>{{cite news|title=Lorimar-Telepictures and HBO reached agreement.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-01-fi-19129-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 1, 1986|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> [[Hemdale Film Corporation]] (non-exclusive, 1982–1986) and [[Savoy Pictures]] (exclusive, 1992–1997).<ref>{{cite news|title=Savoy Pictures and HBO Cut a Film Deal|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-16-fi-654-story.html|author=John Lippman|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 16, 1992|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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