With over 600 movie titles and over 72,000 hours of content, BookMyShow stream will feature films and content from around the world along with India, the platform said. With over 22,000 hours of content being ‘Exclusive’ to the platform at launch, BookMyShow Stream will feature multiple marquee Premises every Friday.
“BookMyShow empowers users to pay only for the content that they watch—a prevalent trend in other global cinema markets, as yet untapped at scale in India,†Ashish Saksena, Chief Operating Officer—Cinemas, BookMyShow, said in a statement. Starting Friday, the new service will be home to Christopher Nolans’s ‘Tenet’, Gal Gadot starrer ‘Wonder Woman 1984’, horror fantasy ‘The Craft: Legacy’. Besides these, films like ‘Alone’, ‘Yes God Yes’, ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’, ‘The Guilty’, ‘Les Miserables’, ‘Unhinged’ and acclaimed Russian Sci-fi thriller ‘Coma’, from premium independent studios will premiere exclusively on the platform.
The platform will feature Hollywood content through partnership with leading global production giants including Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures, among others. It will also bring films from the library of major Indian Production houses such as Viacom 18, Shemaroo and Rajshri Productions as also regional content providers like Divo and Sillymonks, among several others.
It will be available for viewing on BookMyShow’s mobile app and website as also Apple TV, Android TV, Firestick, Chromecast and desktop browsers, the company said, adding that the platform will allow users to experience features such as downloads, offline viewing and casting.
