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Vulture: Disney now with a whole slate of classic Fox films, is slowly just putting them in the Disney vault as they slowly stop theater screenings
- Thread starter mreddie
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No but you see, it's true that Disney bought Sony, WB, Netflix and pretty much everything else and has a 99.9% share of the global market but it's not technically a monopoly. I heard some dude in the Easter Island made a movie!
I don't tell someone to fuck off just willy nilly. That's a last resort. That's like someone on here saying something nice about Trump. I'll tell you to fuck off then.
You can't tell tone online, that's why I try to not make personal attacks unless I know for sure what they're talking about.
It's just people man. A lot of you are acting like people have to eat or something.
*Thanos meme
There is no need for a trade off. Some theater showing Alien on Bumfuck USA has nothing to with Alien being available on a streaming service.
the whole reason it's concerning is what a huge proportion of films Disney now owns and controls, it would be a non-story if this was an indie studio preventing screenings of 10 films
you can't separate this from "the monopoly nonsense"
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god. you corny-ass bootlicking kid-brain nerds. we need to bring back bullying
the article talks about that. some theaters were rejected from screening Alien around the same time, seemingly arbitrarily.
It annoys me how the toadies defending this are probably the same ones that wanted Diz to buy Sony after their little spat with the Spider-Man license.
Sure we can. Because the idea of Disney being a monopoly on entertainment (which it isn't) is a different matter entirely from them not licensing movies in their catalog to small/independent theaters bc they want people to use their digital service platform. It would still be an issue if it was another major entertainment company, and those outside of AT&T/Time Warner usually aren't also criticized for supposedly being monopolies. Framing the issue by making the comparison between Disney and a independent studio is disingenous when there's a mass of large companies out there where this same matter would also be an issue.
You have a habit of writing incendiary posts and not seeing past your own nose with where other people are coming from. If you wanna respond to that observation like you would a Trump supporter I think my opinion stands.
There was an article about this earlier that said Rocky Horror Picture Show and a few others are exempt from this policy.
It wouldn't be an issue of comparable size where it's hurting theater owners' bottom lines the way that is described in the article. Further, the motivations for Disney to even do this are linked to Disney+ and theater block booking strategies, concerns that only exist because they're a massive media conglomerate.
Pretending this is an isolated issue rather than an obvious consequence of media megagiants is a dumb waste of time. Call Disney and AOL Time Warner oligopolists, if you must.
I don't know if you see it but they are absolutely connected.
preach
This is some bullshit by Disney. Seeing classic movies on the big screen with family or friends is always an incredible experience.
Are you okay?
If ever were there a company threatening to apotheosize capitalism, it would be Disney. God they suck these days.
I know it won't, but I hope their streaming service blows up in their faces so they stop with this Disney Vault bullshit.
I know it won't, but I hope their streaming service blows up in their faces so they stop with this Disney Vault bullshit.
Shit I gotta buy Beneath the Planet of the Apes on blu ray before it disappears. The one in my collectors set got messed up somehow.
This is by far one of the worst reactions I've seen to any news in this forum.
What Disney is doing sucks, but some of ya'll need to step outside for a bit.
Yeah, agreed here too. I'm concerned by what Disney is doing too but I need to stay out of this thread.
Reactions like that are why people are so flippantly dismissive over stuff like this.
Seems irrelevant for this thread. Gatekeeping has a specific usage. It's not hard.
That's a strawman.
The discussion was about whether they are films. The fact that you use that term is telling.
Unique, exceptional, culturally valuable is a hell of a goal post move
wait lol do you think Scorsese calling Marvel movies "not cinema" meant he literally didn't think they were films?
And Disney, being one of the largest companies in the world, should be responsible for leading the charge to fix this. It's not complicated.
they're probably clearing out all of the rights on a case by case basis to see what is the most profitable and what they can put on the streaming services.
classic movies are all a very complicated mess
classic movies are all a very complicated mess
Aside from being the 70th biggest company in the world, as already mentioned, I also can't find any other purely entertainment oriented companies ahead of Disney on the list above. So unless I'm missing one, I guess they're the biggest entertainment company in the world.
No way 70th you say ? Maybe don't frame your argument like Disney runs the world. This thread is very definition of outrage culture without using common sense. This is obviously just rights / license issues that are being worked out.
They were probably contractually obligated to provide the film to Fathom, while the bookings with small theaters I'm guessing are not exactly ironclad
It is but I believe its so Disney can squeeze even more money out of theatres. I believe they charge the most for repertory films. Disney isn't vaulting these to be consumer friendly.
NO PUNISHMENT is too great for this violent assault on our cultural inheritance! Has anyone looked into the possibility of capital punishment for these vandals?
I believe that the only one that is escaping. We're going on 40 years of it
I am all for people having their own opinion and their right to say it, no matter how much I disagree with them. That said, advocating bullying is downright wrong and that tells us a lot more about you than anything else.
That's...pretty big, not to mention that they seem to be the biggest entertainment company on that list.
Besides, if you honestly think this is just them working out rights and licenses, I think you're being very naive.
To be fair the other companies that were strictly media companies got bought out by service providers.
Time Warner was the biggest for the longest time but now they are owned by AT&T. NBC/Universal? Comcast. Viacom broke up. Now News Corp and Fox have broken up and Fox is owned by Disney.
I would say its about time Verizon or some other provider start considering a nice Disney purchase.
Anyway you can all thank the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for all of this consolidated bullshit.