Media Pro Entertainment Brings Films Produced By U.S. Summit Entertainment To Eastern Europe

The announcement has been made by Ralpho Borgos, vice-president of the Summit Entertainment international distribution department, and by Anca Truta, general manager of MediaPro Distribution, reads a press release.

The deal targets all films Summit Entertainment will produce by August 2014, including feature film "Now You See Me" starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco, as well as a remake of "Highlander".

Summit Entertainment has had a successful relation with Media Pro since 2007, when the American company started to grant licenses for rights to the studio's films to Romania and Bulgaria. Starting 2010, Media Pro's distribution activities extended to Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

"Media Pro has proven itself to be a reliable and excellent distributor that has maximized results for us across all theatrical, video and television platforms. We are happy to partner with them over these next three years to continue bringing Summit's films to their audiences," said Borgos.

Summit Entertainment, LLC is a theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio.

CME is a media company which operates on the broadcasting, internet and television segments. CME has TV stations in Bulgaria (bTV, bTV Cinema, bTV Comedy, bTV Action and Ring.bg), Croatia (Nova TV, Doma and Nova World), the Czech Republic (TV Nova, Nova Cinema, Nova Sport and MTV Czech), Romania (PRO TV, PRO TV International, Acasa, PRO Cinema, Sport.ro, MTV Romania and PRO TV Chisinau), Slovakia (TV Markíza and Doma) and Slovenia (POP TV, Kanal A and POP NON STOP).

CME's broadcast operations are supported by Media Pro Entertainment, as well as its New Media division, which operates Voyo, a regional video-on-demand service.

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