FandangoNow Joins Movies Anywhere – What Does That Mean?
By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 13, 2018 7:30 am EST
The FandangoNOW MoviesAnywhere partnership marks the fifth digital retailer to throw in with the digital movie-collection service owned by Disney.
Under the deal, FandangoNow customers can use the Movies Anywhere app and website to purchase and access movies under the Walt Disney Studios umbrella — Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm — as well as 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures (including Dreamworks and Illumination), and Warner Bros.
In a statement accompanying the announcement, Movies Anywhere General Manager Karin Gilford said:
Movies Anywhere currently has a library of nearly 7,500 digital movies.
“We are thrilled to welcome FandangoNOW, a go-to online destination for movie fans, as our newest digital retailer. Movies Anywhere is rapidly revolutionizing the way that consumers access and enjoy their digital movie collections. The app has been used to store over 100 million movies to date. The popularity of Movies Anywhere is largely due to the extraordinary content, including exclusives and promotions, and the support provided through our growing list of online digital retailers.”
In addition to titles purchased from the five retailers, consumers also can redeem digital codes included in Blu-ray and DVDs from participating studios and access them through Movies Anywhere. However, movies rented from digital retailers cannot be accessed from Movies Anywhere.
What Does This Mean?
While Disney is preparing to launch its own digital streaming service, it launched Movies Anywhere in 2014 with titles available from Disney, Pixar, and Marvel, as well as the Star Wars films.
However, Disney has said that Movies Anywhere operates independently with input only from an advisory committee that has members from each of the participating studios. Last October, the company opened Movies Anywhere to partner with the four other studios.
Now that Fandango has joined Movies Anywhere, “FandangoNow customers will gain simple, streamlined access to their digital movies from Hollywood’s major film studios,” said Fandango chief marketing officer Adam Rockmore.
