Bounce TV Acquires More Movie Titles

Bounce TV, the new broadcast TV network for African Americans,, has acquired the television rights to more African American-skewing motion pictures in two individual, multi-year licensing agreements with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Among the titles in the agreement with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution: Oscar- winning Bird, directed by Clint Eastwood; the original Shaft (1971); Richard Pryor starring in Greased Lightning and The Mack with Max Julien; Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier in Let’s Do It Again and 1997’s Rosewood.

Bounce TV’s agreement with Paramount includes such titles as Critical Condition starring Pryor; Diana Ross in Mahogany as well as her classic 1972 performance as Jazz great Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the  Blues; two Eddie Murphy comedies Best Defense and Vampire In Brooklyn; and Denzel Washington starring in the 1990 comedy Heart Condition.

Some of the newly-licensed titles will be seen within the network’s new “Brown Sugar Saturday Night” weekly primetime franchise. “Brown Sugar Saturday Night” showcases urban cinema with a 1970s bent.