Chum Television has bought exclusive English Canada television, post pay-TV rights to 42 independent films from Blackwatch Releasing.

The package includes some of the year’s most highly acclaimed American and foreign features, including Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me and Pedro Almodovar’s 1999 Oscar-winner All About My Mother.

The seven-figure deal is a first between Chum and Blackwatch, but marks the beginning of a continued collaboration between the two companies. *

-www.chumlimited.com