A new streaming platform complements the increasingly extensive range of audiovisual streaming. With a remarkable catalog of contents, Paramount + will start operations on March 4th in the United States and another twenty countries in the Americas, expanding to the Nordic countries and Australia weeks later, still in doubt as to when they will arrive in Spain.
Paramount + offers more than 30,000 series and 2,500 films
Paramount + combines content from television channels such as CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime and of course Paramount Channel. This will enable you to have Your own thematic channels Where can Disney +-style content be grouped with the Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, National Geographic and Star channels?
MTV will contribute reality shows such as “Jersey Shore” and its derivatives; Nickelodeon brings together “Rugrats” through “SpongeBob” through new series such as “Star Trek: Prodigy”; On Showtime you can find shows like “Dexter”, “Penny Dreadful” and “Stargate SG-1”, while on CBS you can find “Cheers”, “Frasier”, “McGyver”, “The Twilight Zone” and “Twin Peaks”. .
But without a doubt, one of the most important bets is to offer movie premieres with a period in between 30 and 45 days after your arrival at the venues the exhibition. It’s a strategy halfway between the current multi-month show windows and recent decisions by platforms like HBO and studios like Warner to launch in theaters and streaming at the same time. In the case of Paramount, potentially successful films such as Mission Impossible 7, Top Gun: Maverick and A Quiet Place 2 are expected to be released in 2021.
Other titles will be available directly on the Paramount + streaming platform, such as the new sequel to “Paranormal Activity” or the sequel to “Animal Cemetery”. In addition to the Miramax catalog, Paramount + also has franchise companies such as “Mission Impossible” or “Star Trek” with a large number of titles directed by Quentin Tarantino for the catalog of the big hits.
Finally, and this includes Paramount and Metro Goldwin Mayer, an agreement that the MGM catalog will be available on Paramount + “No time to die”, the 25th installment in the James Bond franchise, which should have been released in theaters last year, but was postponed until next April due to the pandemic. In this case, the film will reach the streaming platform 90 days after its theatrical release based on a prior agreement with the US pay-per-view service Epix.
