A-Channel Entertainment has sold rights to two packages of feature films to Canadian pay-tv services, but says the company is not moving in the direction of output deals.

‘This is not leading us to output deals,’ says A-Channel Entertainment president Wayne Sterloff. ‘The movies A-Channel Entertainment offers pay-tv are a steady flow of post-theatrical titles that have not been telecast on domestic conventional television.’

A-Channel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Craig Broadcasting, signed an eight-picture deal with Corus-owned Superchannel. The combined production budgets of the eight films are worth upwards of $24 million. The deal includes such features as Grizzly Falls, Bad Faith and Stranger in Town.

In a separate deal, the company sold six films to Astral’s TMN-The Movie Network, including Silent Cradle, Bad Money and Deadly Arrangement.

Further deals with conventional broadcasters could be expected in the near future.

‘We are considering the commitment of certain titles to exclusive network windows with major traditional broadcasters on a case-by-case basis,’ says Sterloff. *