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A&E has landed one of the biggest movie buys in history, paying Miramax more than $20 million for 45 films, Variety reports.
The deal includes box-office winners such as “Good Will Hunting,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Pulp Fiction,” which will come to A&E after finishing exclusive runs on broadcast networks.
But A&E will get three titles–“In the Bedroom,” “The Shipping News” and “Iris”–exclusively before any network for two-year terms.
Even if A&E decides to create a movie night in prime-time, A&E executive Abbe Raven said the bigger titles will probably still get special-event treatment when they premiere on the network, with subsequent runs shifting to the regularly scheduled slot.
