Youku Tudou Partners with Paramount Pictures to Add 100 Foreign Films for Streaming Online

On Tuesday, online media giant Youku Tudou announced that they would be partnering with Paramount Pictures to add over 100 foreign films from their catalog to their subscription streaming service. You can expect popular titles like Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Forrest Gump, and other similarly wholesome examples of American cinema to be available online in the near future, or at least after these titles are deemed suitable to the masses and probably edited to remove anything steamy or unsuitable involving infidelity, gambling, and other graphically delicious content.

These additions will bring Youku’s online library of films to over 4,000 foreign and domestic titles. Youku's direct competitor Tencent recently signed a deal with Disney, allowing them to become the exclusive distributor of all six Star Wars films, and with HBO for their teleplays like Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones (sans all the fun parts). 

Youku Tudou Chairman and CEO Victor Koo said: "The consumer-driven demand for premium online services in China is growing rapidly," a deep insight that makes sense, especially following the so called purge of all illegal content that occurred last fall, to get rid of or limit all foreign titles available through video streaming sites.

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