Lionsgate, Skydance Media Form Global Television Distribution Pact - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Lionsgate (LGF), a premier next generation global content leader, and Skydance, a diversified media company that creates event-level entertainment for global audiences, announced that they have formed a global television distribution pact.

The launch of newly-created label Skydance International, which will feature Skydance Media's current and emerging premium television properties around the world following their initial U.S. broadcast, augments Lionsgate's worldwide distribution pipeline and permits the two companies to tap opportunities across the global television marketplace. Lionsgate currently distributes nearly 2,000 hours of television programming annually around the world.

The global distribution pact will encompass programming led by Skydance's Emmy-nominated television series Grace and Frankie and critically-acclaimed drama Manhattan(produced in partnership with Lionsgate and Tribune Studios), as well as a number of new properties that Skydance is developing for the international television marketplace.

"As part of today's announcement, we are excited to welcome Brandon Zimon to the Skydance Media team as Senior Vice Present of International Television Sales and Co-Productions," said Skydance Chief Operating Officer Jesse Sisgold.

Zimon joins Skydance Media from Sony Pictures Television, where he spent over a decade, most recently as Vice President of International Distribution.