On Demand Group (ODG) and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have announced a cross-territory deal to provide the latest Fox blockbuster and library movie titles to ODG Transactional Video-on-Demand (TVOD) services in Greece, Cyprus, UAE, Qatar, Egypt, and Morocco.

Under the terms of the deal, consumers of ODG’s operator clients in the territories with TVOD access will be able to watch the latest blockbusters such as Gulliver’s Travels, Rio, and 127 Hours, and library favourites such as I,Robot, The Last King of Scotland, The Devil Wears Prada and Night at The Museum. ODG’s operator clients in the territories included in the deal include OTE in Greece, PrimeTel in Cyprus, and du in UAE.

“Fox is committed to responding to consumer demand for choice by delivering quality content in the most flexible and convenient ways possible,” says Kristen Finney, vice president, International PPV, VOD and EST at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “We are therefore delighted to be working with On Demand Group to provide its customers direct access to an impressive line-up of Fox movies in the comfort of their own home.”

On Demand Group develops and manages the on-demand businesses of a growing roster of service providers, including Virgin Media in the UK, SFR Neuf in France, OTE in Greece and TTNET in Turkey and du in Dubai, among others. Its On Demand Deutschland joint venture specializes in servicing  German-speaking countries and currently supports Telekom Austria, Unity Media, Kabel Deutschland and others. 

“We’re very pleased to bring content from one of the world’s premier movie studios to our clients in South Eastern Europe and the Middle East, which is further evidence of our successful cross-territory content aggregation strategy and the development of compelling VOD services that we bring to operators,” says On Demand Group CEO, Tony Kelly. “We fully expect to be able to announce further operator contracts in both regions shortly.”