2006 Movie News Archives

Superman Returns

January 11, 2006: FX Buys “Superman Returns” TV Rights

Variety reports that FX has bought the TV rights to "Superman Returns" six months in advance of the movie's release on June 30th.

    The network has agreed to pay Warner Bros. Domestic Cable about 12% of the eventual domestic gross, with a cap at between $17 million and $25 million, depending on the contract's length of term and on whether Warner finds another buyer to share the window with FX. [The cable network] gets the first burst of "Superman" runs in its TV premiere early in 2009.

"Superman Returns" will appear on HBO next year in an exclusive pay TV window as part of HBO's output deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.



2006 Movie News

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