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Disney Plus is Stopping Theaters Screening Fox Movies – and Viewers Will Lose Out

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-like-Scrooge-McDuck dept.

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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 28 2019, @08:26AM (#912710)

    Stop buying anything even remotely connected to the Disney company. That is the only signal you have to send to them that you are dissatisfied. You must stop buying/subscribing/paying for anything Disney.

    My little kid is in her princesses and knights phase... Frozen this, Frozen that, a dozen times a day. No way I would be able to deny her that for things she does not understand.

    You want to stop the vault? There is only one way to do so.

    There is another one... (collectively) buying (a lot of) Disney stocks and become activist investors. Sure, that's going to cost you a lot, but might be more effective in the long term.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @11:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 30 2019, @11:49AM (#913661)

    No way I would be able to deny her that for things she does not understand.

    Note that the topic was buying from Disney.

    You can still obtain a good chunk of what those little ones would want (the videos at least) to watch endlessly on a loop, without ever transferring any money to the Disney corp. And it is the videos that Disney plays the vault trick with to generate artificial profit for themselves.

    Now, obtaining the swag that the videos are designed to promote and encourage the little ones to want, well, yeah, that is just a wee bit harder to do without transferring money to Disney corp. And lets be honest, the videos are just two hour long commercials for all of the swag associated with the videos.