Youku pacts with Fox

SHANGHAI -- China's greatest movie streaming site, Youku.com, has pacted with twentieth century Fox to license 250 photos. The offer gives Youku the authority to offer Fox's era and library game titles on its Premium plaform. Film franchises have carried out well on Youku Premium, with new theatrical releases driving online curiosity about previous payments within the franchises, and also the new deal includes online privileges to Fox franchises for example "Planet from the Apes," "Ice Age," "X-Males" and "Alien." The flicks will start showing up on Youku Premium this month, in front of the Chinese Year vacation in late The month of january. The amount of pay-per-view transactions on Youku Premium a lot more than tripled between Q2 and Q3 of 2011, the organization stated inside a statement. By November, an increasing percentage -- 13.5% -- of Youku Premium customers compensated more often than once monthly to see premium content. "We've been working carefully with Hollywood galleries in supplying quality content to countless Chinese Internet customers while effectively safeguarding intellectual qualities," stated Zhu Huilong, veep of movie procedures and corporate development. "We're urged through the development of the Youku Premium platform, and our new certification agreement with Fox can make Youku Premium more compelling for the customers," stated Zhu. Youku Premium has processed a lot more than a million orders since starting in beta last year. In August, Youku struck an offer with DreamWorks Animation for online distribution from the "Kung Fu Panda" film franchise. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com