Lionsgate, AccessIT sign print fee deal

May 08, 2008 Digital cinema integrator Access Integrated Technologies has formalized a virtual print fee deal with Lionsgate. Per the new agreement, Lionsgate will provide movies to digital cinema equipped theaters in AccessIT's Phase 1 digital cinema program -- which encompasses slightly more than 3,700 screens -- and will pay VPFs under a long-term agreement similar to those signed by all the other major studios. AccessIT and Lionsgate have also begun negotiations on a Phase 2 agreement, which incorporates virtual print fee deals that already have been established with Disney, Fox, Paramount and Universal, which have committed to provide movies to as many as 10,000 digital-cinema systems in the U.S. and Canada.

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