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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
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Disney Plus is stopping theaters screening Fox movies – and viewers will lose out

Disney Plus will no doubt be the talk of the town when it launches in November, with a host of films and franchises from across Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and even 21st Century Fox. But it seems that Disney’s acquisition of Fox – welcomed by many for the hit series and IP it brought to Disney’s streaming service – may have some unfavorable consequences for viewers.

Vulture has reported on various cinema owners and film festival programmers who are being refused the rights to show certain Fox movies, now under new ownership at Disney.

Titles such as The Omen, The Fly, Moulin Rouge, and various Alien films are now increasingly difficult to show, with Disney reportedly denying requests by establishments that had previously shown the films without trouble.

While Disney has yet to make a public declaration of its intention here, Vulture quotes a film distributor who says the restrictions won’t apply to not-for-profit businesses or public art institutions. 

What’s even more worrying is that the new law for Fox movies doesn’t seem to be enforced consistently, with different distributors finding they had rights to show certain films revoked for different reasons, without explanation, or even if they fit Disney’s criteria.

With Disney Plus set to launch in mid-November in its first few territories, a world of Disney is about to get opened wide – but at the same time, it looks like that world is getting a lot smaller.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 28 2019, @02:05AM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 28 2019, @02:05AM (#912607) Journal

    Disney killed Star Wars, so I have killed them from my life, my family's life, and our purchases.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @12:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @12:34PM (#912754)

    Uhhh.... Well... Lucas actually killed star wars (remember eps. 1-3, they were Lucas). Disney just completed driving the stake through its heart by rebooting for profit.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday October 28 2019, @04:48PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday October 28 2019, @04:48PM (#912883) Journal

      Eps. 1-3 weren't near so awful as 7.

      Quick synopsis of 7:
      Lots of Nostalgic panoramas shots, with a black storm trooper (No offense meant, but they didn't explain this. Also, the storm troopers were supposed to be clones of one white guy.), easily one of the dumbest plots in the history of Star Wars, Emo Villain, and the SNL skit of the undercover boss was more interesting than the entire movie.

      #8: Doubles down on the Emo Villain / Teenage Angst and makes watching 7 feel worse. Thankfully, I haven't actually watched 8 and 9 is right out.

      Rogue One and Solo were superb, how they managed to totally destroy the continuation is beyond me.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @11:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @11:43AM (#913660)

        Even quicker synopsis of 7:

        Retell ep. 3's storyline, poorly, with a round beachball robot instead of a trashcan robot.

        Ep 7 was essentially just ep. 3's storyline, just with different actors.