Sony Movies (also known as Sony Movie Channel) is an American cable television channel that was launched on .
[ Owned by the ]Sony Pictures Television
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subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
, its programming consists of films from the Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, ac ...
library (including content from Columbia Pictures
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, TriStar Pictures
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, Sony Pictures Classics
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and Destination Films
Destination Films is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment currently specializing in action, thriller, niche sci-fi and low-end to medium-end horror films.
History
The original Destination Films was founded by Brent Baum and Steve Stabler ...
among others), alongside films from other distributors, mainly from Millennium Films, Nu Image
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, Lionsgate Films
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and Shout! Factory
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, which are broadcast unedited, and remastered in 1080i high definition.[Sony Television Plans to Launch Two New U.S. Channels]
''Los Angeles Times'', July 5, 2010
Program blocks and theme weeks
A former program block on the channel is "Killer Mandays", a double feature of horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, ap ...
s on Monday nights. From November 6 – 12, 2011 the channel aired a week-long salute to Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
films.
Availability
Sony Movies is available nationally on Philo, DirecTV
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and Dish Network
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, and regionally on AT&T U-Verse
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, Optimum
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. DirecTV and Dish Network also offer "Sony Movie Channel Everywhere", which allows viewers to watch its movies through its website for no additional cost. The channel is also available through streaming for owners of the Sony Network Media Player.
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Television channels and stations established in 2010
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