Etisalat announced a bundle of free services with its eLife TV box. Viewers will have access to free on-demand movies each week for the next six weeks as well as enjoy free StarzPlay for three months with the latest Arabic and International TV series and movies by simply subscribing on-screen. Those who want more premium [...]
StarzPlay and Discovery have signed a three-year agreement that will see the MENA debut of Dplay which will be available via StarzPlay apps including Apple TV. According to the deal, subscribers can access Dplay for an additional AED 15 per month. Subscribers, both existing and new, will be able to trial the service for a [...]
SVOD service StarzPlay will offer its users a line-up of some of the biggest Marvel blockbusters. The list of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films that will be available on the streaming platform include the Iron Man trilogy, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, the Thor trilogy including Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok. [...]
The 14-episodes historical drama Kingdoms of Fire in 4K will be aired exclusively on StarzPlay. The series is directed by Peter Weber, best known for films like Girl with a Pearl Earring and Emperor. Kingdoms of Fire has a pan-Arab cast of stars that includes Khaled Al Nabawi, Mahmoud Nasr, Rachid Assaf, Kinda Hanna, Suhair [...]
The collaboration will offer an array of exclusive dramas to audiences including “Baghdad Central” and “The Luminaries” on StarzPlay in MENA. Subscription video on demand (SVOD) service StarzPlay has partnered with production and distribution company Freemantle to ensure it stays as the leading platform in the delivery of content. The contract comprises Fremantle’s Euston Films [...]
StarzPlay, the SVoD service, has partnered with Finyal Media, the Arab production company in MENA specializing in podcast creation, to produce a series of podcasts in Arabic. The announcement follows StarzPlay’s growing focus on producing Arabic content on multiple digital media, after also announcing its first series of original content earlier this month. StarzPlay will [...]
The leader SVOD Starzplay signed an agreement with the telecommunications company Asiacell in an attempt to target the Iraq market. The agreement will allow subscribers to the operator’s “unlimited” monthly plan to have access to the streamer at no additional cost. In total, Asiacell reaches 99% of the Iraqi population and has a total subscriber [...]
StarzPlay, Lionsgate’s American cable streaming service, has teamed up with Academy Award-winning media company Image Nation Abu Dhabi to create its first original series for StarzPlay Arabia, titled Urban Legends. The six-part project will be a series of anthologies in the Arabic language based on regional Middle Eastern tales and fables, which will tell a [...]
The production will start in 2020 and Arabic content is expected to be published by the end of the year. The project will be an anthology of urban legends, each episode telling a different story. The series will explore regional tales and fables of the Middle East. Maaz Sheikh, co-founder and CEO of STARZPLAY, said [...]
STARZPLAY has signed a new contract with Intigral that provides access to the SVOD platform to Saudi Telecom Company broadband subscribers and users of the OTT Jawwy TV platform. The three-and-a-half-year alliance marks the second renewal of the STARZPLAY agreement with Intigral, which allows customers to be billed for the service via an existing telecommunication [...]
