Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) announced that the studio will launch its digital sell-through business on April 3. Partnering with Movielink and CinemaNow, the service will allow broadband Internet users in the United States the opportunity to download-to-own for the very first time a wide range of entertainment content from the SPHE and MGM collective libraries.

SPHE’s digital sell-through business will commence with an initial slate of 75 titles that will include such films as Memoirs of a Geisha, Spider-Man 2, Taxi Driver, Barbershop, and Hitch. Dirty will be SPHE’s first day-and-date title when it debuts on April 4. The hit comedy Fun With Dick and Jane will release day-and-date on April 11. In addition to offering new release titles day-and-date with DVD, SPHE will release additional titles from SPHE and MGM’s library monthly. The combined Sony Pictures and MGM libraries of more than 7,500 titles are believed to be the largest, most digitized collection in the business.