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Hollywood in Spotlight as EU Said to Escalate Pay-TV Probe

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Hollywood studios including 20th Century Fox as well as some of the European Union’s biggest pay-TV companies face an EU antitrust complaint over movie-licensing deals that regulators claim thwart cross-border competition.

EU regulators may send a so-called statement of objections to five studios and five broadcasters as soon as next month, said three people familiar with the case who asked not to be named because the matter isn’t public.