After Disney India and Star India announced a television rights deal in December last year, allowing the latter’s broadcast network access to the studio’s film library, the former has now extended the partnership to include the digital rights to its movie library to Hotstar as well.

This deal means Hotstar now holds the rights to Hollywood content from Fox, HBO and Disney, giving it access to a chunk of the popular Hollywood content in India. Some of the titles from the library have gone live and they include popular movies like the Ironman trilogy, Marvel’s ...