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Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF), the studio behind the “Hunger Games” movies, has jumped on the direct-to-consumer streaming video bandwagon. Lions Gate announced Monday that it has partnered with Tribeca Enterprises to launch a subscription video-on-demand service called Tribeca Short List. Launching in the first half of 2015, the service will offer “a prestigious selection of Lions Gate and Tribeca titles as well as critically acclaimed films drawn from around the world,” the companies said in a press release. The news follows announcements last week of over-the-top Internet video services from CBS (CBS) and Time Warner’s (TWX) HBO. Some analysts said that the moves could mark the beginning of unbundling cable-TV programming. If so, viewers soon could pay for the channels they want a la carte and not hundreds of channels they don’t watch. Lions Gate and Tribeca did not announce pricing for their new service. The companies also were coy… Scalper1 News
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