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After the premium on-demand viewing window
closes, the film will move exclusively to CBS All Access,
ViacomCBS' subscription VOD and live-streaming service, the
company said in a statement.
The pandemic has shuttered theaters across the globe, forced the
postponement of major film releases and upended the traditional
practice of keeping a movie exclusively in theaters for around
90 days.
Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast Corp-owned
NBCUniversal, said in March it would make its movies available
at home on the same day they are released in theaters worldwide,
beginning with the DreamWorks Animation film "Trolls World
Tour".
ViacomCBS, which has been preparing to launch a new streaming
service that will build on CBS All Access, said the upcoming "SpongeBob"
movie will debut on the expanded service.
The new movie will be the latest in a series spun-off from the
television show "SpongeBob SquarePants," which first aired in
the U.S. in 1999 https://in.reuters.com/article/us-television-spongebob/spongebob-squarepants-creator-dies-at-age-57-idINKCN1NW214
and featured a yellow sea sponge who lived in an underwater
pineapple.
All prior seasons of the original show, which won multiple
awards, produced a series of spin-off books and a Broadway
musical, will be available on the expanded service soon,
ViacomCBS said.
(Reporting by Shanti S Nair and Ayanti Bera in Bengaluru;
Editing by Devika Syamnath)
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