Bounce TV Announces Major Movie Licensing Deals

Bounce TV, the broadcast TV network for African Americans, has acquired the television rights to four packages of African American-skewing motion pictures in individual, multi-year licensing agreements with Walt Disney Studios, Miramax, Sony Pictures Television and MGM Domestic Television Distribution.

Among the titles Bounce TV acquires from The Walt Disney Studios: What’s Love Got to Do with It starring Angela Bassett as Tina Turner; The Preacher’s Wife starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston; Washington starring in He Got Game;  the Eddie Murphy comedies The Distinguished Gentlemen and The Haunted Mansion; Mr. 3000 starring Bernie Mac; Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit; Glory Road, the story of the first all-black starting five to win an NCAA basketball championship; Halle Berry as The Rich Man’s Wife; the 1994 action comedy A Low Down Dirty Shame starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and Jada Pinkett Smith; Shaquille O’Neal as Kazaam; Snow Dogs, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; and Cool Runnings, based on the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team to make it to the Winter Olympics.

From Miramax, Bounce TV lands such titles as: 2002’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture Chicago featuring Queen Latifah; the multiple Academy Award- nominated Passion Fish with an all-star lineup led by Alfre Woodard; Morgan Freeman in An Unfinished Life, with Jennifer Lopez and Robert Redford; Sarafina! starring Whoopi Goldberg; Nick Cannon in 2008’s American Son; Marlon Wayans in the comedy Senseless; Scary Movie 2 and LL Cool J in the thrillers Mindhunters and In Too Deep.

Among the Sony titles: Beyoncé headlining Cadillac Records; Jamie Foxx in Stealth; the Cuba Gooding Jr. comedy Daddy Day Camp; the classics To Sir, With Love and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner starring Sidney Poitier; Spike Lee’s School Daze; Richard Pryor in Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling and The Toy; Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming directed by Rob Hardy; and Poetic Justice starring Janet Jackson.

MGM titles include: A trio of classic Sidney Poitier films led by the legendary star’s Academy Award-winning performance in Lilies of The Field; The Defiant Ones and They Call Me Mr. Tibbs; Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It; Cotton Comes to Harlem; Pam Grier as Foxy Brown; The Jackie Robinson Story; Bill Cosby in Hickey & Boggs and the classic comedy Cooley High.