Disney licensed seven movies to pay TV.

Walt Disney Productions sold pay-TV rights to “Splash,” “Country,” “Tex,” “Trenchcoat,” “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “Midnight Madness” and “Running Brave” to Home Box Office and Showtime, two competing pay-cable services. Disney Vice President Erwin Okun confirmed the sale but declined to disclose the terms. The sale appears to be Disney’s first sale of a group of films since the 1983 launch of its own pay-TV service, the Disney Channel.