Fox Movies in the Middle East and North Africa is a movie channel owned by a joint venture between Rotana Media Services and Fox International Channels. The channel was launched in mid-2008. Another sister channel released at the end of 2008 under Fox, Fox Arabia.The channel is also available in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
In 4 November 2015, this channel was become broadcast only HD and become encrypted instead of free broadcast on beIN Network
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Fox Movies is a Portuguese basic fiber, digital cable and satellite television movie channel owned and produced by Fox International Channels. It was launched on July 1, 2011. Worldwide, the channel reaches more than 50 million homes. It is available on all major pay television operators.
The channel airs the most recent and successful movies airing many genres including drama, comedy, science fiction, action and horror. Programming during the summer slate included hits such as X-Men and The Queen.
Movies! (stylized as "MOVIES!") is an American digital multicast television network that is owned as a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The network features an emphasis in its programming on feature films. Movies!'s programming and advertising operations are based in Weigel Broadcasting's headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.
It is available in several markets through digital subchannel affiliations with broadcast television stations, as well as through carriage on the digital tiers of select cable providers through a local affiliate of the network. Movies! provides programming 24 hours a day and broadcasts in the 16:9 widescreen picture format, available in either standard definition or high definition depending on the station's preference.
The network competes with two similarly formatted broadcast networks: This TV (originally operated by Weigel in a joint venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, until the former's operational stake was taken over by Tribune Broadcasting on November 1, 2013) and GetTV (owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment); feature films compose the primary source and children's programming the ancillary source of programming on both networks, though This TV also broadcasts classic television series. Unlike Movies! and GetTV, all of This's content is transmitted solely in the 4:3 aspect ratio and made up of mainly pan-and-scan television cuts meant for syndication, which Movies! only uses if contractually or technically necessary.