Netflix and Sony Pictures Television have reached  a multi-year agreement to bring Sony Pictures Animation feature films in the first pay TV window to Netflix members in the U.S.

Netflix has started offering Sony Animation content under a new licensing deal, with Starz continuing to offer its subscribers Sony live-action movies.
A Netflix spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the streaming video company has struck a deal for Sony Animation films after a Wall Street analyst had suggested such a deal in a report. Financial terms weren't immediately clear.

A Starz representative confirmed that the animation films were excluded from a licensing deal that the firm has with Sony.