Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 (bloomberg.com) 65
Disney is reportedly having trouble buying back TV rights to "Star Wars" movies from AT&T's Turner Broadcasting so that it can offer them on a new streaming video service it is working on. Bloomberg reports: Disney made a preliminary inquiry about regaining the rights, but met resistance. Turner has the rights to show the films on its cable networks, which include TNT and TBS, and online until 2024. The programmer would want financial considerations and programming to replace the lost films. Disney sold certain rights to Turner in 2016, before it completed plans for the streaming service.
/Oblg. First World Problems. (Score:4, Interesting)
WHEN can I buy the ORIGINAL theatrical release on Blu-Ray?
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WHEN can I buy the ORIGINAL theatrical release on Blu-Ray?
When you shelve your BluRay player and get a LaserDisc player instead.?
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This is how:
Star Wars the Despecialized Edition [wikipedia.org]
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Maybe you shouldn't be doing that. At least not if you have a conscience.
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Yeah, that's what I did years ago, but OP was talking about "buying" as in giving money to Disney.
But why, though? Just like with DRM; piracy gives you a better product. One would think companies would learn that they can produce a better product with less hassle for a reasonable price. ($20 for a Blu-Ray, no strings attached? Sold!)
They could make things available for streaming for a reasonable price. Want to stream everything? Pay for a dozen services for $30 a month.
Want to watch your favorite sports team? No. Fuck you. You can pay full price for cable to maybe occasionally get a game on streaming. T
Re:/Oblg. First World Problems. (Score:4, Insightful)
As much as I love the fan edits such as this one, and The Phantom Edit, legally one can't buy it due to corporate greed. :-/
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Greed is a cancer that destroys everything
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Someday when you grow up you'll realize that (some) fans like to financially support creators. There is even a concept of Pay What You Want, shocking I know! /sarcasm
If YOU want to share, er pirate it, go ahead. But I want a legal option where I don't have to waste my time on bullshit copyright greed.
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You will never be able to buy it legally.
You got a code and you live by it.
And I respect your conviction tho I don't share it (I have the despecialized editions. I also own the movies on DVD so I felt I had a right to see the actual original movies instead of modified versions from what I saw in the theaters).
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Someday when you grow up you'll realize that (some) fans like to financially support creators...
Disney*? Creator of Star Wars?? Or anything???
*"Create" isn't the same as "steal** from the public domain"
**Using something from the public domain isn't stealing, but locking it up so it can't be used any more is.
Good. (Score:4, Insightful)
Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
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Q. How do you wreck SW?
A. Add a J.
*ba dum tss*
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Jar Jar Abrams. :-)
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Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
I can see them dedicating an entire spin off based around whether he shot first or not.
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Or worse, create a mirror-verse to try to play off that both versions are correct
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It showa how far ahead Disney plans... (Score:2)
... Disney sold certain rights to Turner in 2016, before it completed plans for the streaming service. ...
In 2016, didn't Disney have any sort of streaming strategy? It certainly appears that they were asleep at the wheel.
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They didn't have 20th Century Fox's back catalog of movies.
They could always stream Steamboat Willie on a loop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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...They didn't have 20th Century Fox's back catalog of movies. It would have been a niche streaming site without the deal with Fox. ...
I asked about a strategy, not a tactic. If Disney had a streaming strategy, they would not have given away rights in 2016 that they need in 2018. But it appears that they did not have a strategy, or even a plan that looked more than two years down the road. Disney management certainly appeared to be asleep at the wheel and streaming caught them unaware and unprepared.
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Judging by their content deals, they originally planned to acquire Netflix but then Netflix went solo on many projects to protect itself from the film cartel and Disney lost its advantage and went its own way as Netflix garnered an unreasonable market cap.
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I am frustrated that there are so many separate streaming services, none of which have most of what I want to watch.
And to top it all off, they are all expensive. If they were like three bucks a month or something maybe they would be worth it, since each has maybe 1/5 of what I want to watch.
But no, they start at 15 a month and go up from there, to give me access to a huge heaping mass of stuff I will never want to watch, and a trickle of what I do.
Netflix by DVD is still the best deal in town, from a cont
How much money does Disney have to waste/spend? (Score:2)
How long will Disney's investors tolerate Disney's ongoing mismanagement? Disney came to the Internet late (like Microsoft did with the web), Disney reportedly paid George Lucas a lot of money for a franchise that has been described as "creatively bankrupt since 1983" (which I'd say is about right), and Disney mistreats the public via policy changes (the last copyright term extension was chiefly a power grab and widely known to have been driven by Disney). Now Disney is letting Turner come to them and ask "
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Re: Holiday Special (Score:1)
The Jefferson Starship music video in the Christmas Special rocks!
I don't want streaming or TV (Score:2)
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I don't know if the "despecialized edition" torrents still have as close to an official blessing as possible - they still haven't been sued or C&Ded out of existence.
Stupid situation we're in (Score:2)
It's the not wanting to pirate it that screws you here :)
It's really a stupid situation we're in that the only way for any of us to see good quality versions of movies that very few would debate are cultural icons is to pirate them. Given how popular Star Wars is right now Disney could make bundles of money just by going through the exact same efforts those volunteers who created the HD, non special edition pirate copies did.
Speaking of which, if you haven't watched the non special edition Harmy's release (
Nelson Muntz says (Score:2)
HA HA!!!
Have a conspiracy theory (Score:3)
Disney just don't want people watching the original trilogy, because they will see the new ones are total bantha poo in comparison!
Also what professional actors look like. (Score:1)
People often forget that the make and break performances were Guiness and Hamill's interactions with the robots early on in the movie, Han's suave charm and disregard for other's lives in Mos Eisley, before showing himself to just be a desperate man in a bad situation recognizing the same in those he unwittingly helped in his quest for money, leading to him, without the force, helping to take out the greatest starfighter pilot then in the galaxy (Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker) when he was too focused on a ro
How original? (Score:2)
If it's the original theatrical release as I saw it as a 6-year-old way back in 1977, then I'm stoked. If it's one of the later re-releases after George Lucas mucked around with the story (Han shot first!) and effects, then Turner Broadcasting can put them on a shelf and leave them there.
It's been 28 years... (Score:1)
aren't they in the public domain?
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aren't they in the public domain?
No - they were made AFTER Steamboat Willy, and Disney will keep buying legislation to make sure Mickey Mouse NEVER enters the public domain.
Pray (Score:2)
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Suck it. (Score:2)
Seriously you shat in the bed, clean it up yourself Disney. Stop trying to screw everyone. I hope your $4bn investment burns.
Which original star wars? Despecialized? (Score:1)
Orginal (has different crawler than we saw in theaters)
Despecialized (this is the gold standard.)
The "magenta" version with terrible color balance?
The "special" edition with the dinosaurs?
The version where Han shoots first? Or where the odd pasted on gredo hand shoots first? (I think there was another version that looked better after that one too).
etc. etc .
For me, the only one I care about is the despecialized original where han shoots first.
By the way: If you haven't-- you *MUST* see "Obiwan has PTSD"
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