Disney simply made a brand new TV deal for all 12 Star Wars movies that can permit them to play not just on Disney+, however its personal suite of broadcast and cable channels in addition to these owned by Turner Broadcasting.
Turner purchased the rights to 10 of the movies from Disney in 2016 for $250 million, along with a separate deal for A New Hope by means of Fox. That deal was then amended in 2019 with the debut of Disney+ however lately expired on the finish of September. Now, beneath this new deal, each movie is included (the 11 live-action ones in addition to The Clone Battles) and so they can air on Disney networks like ABC, FX and Freeform, in addition to TNT, TBS, and so forth. It begins this weekend with the unique Star Wars Trilogy (special editions, we’re sure) airing on FX Saturday, October 7.
You’ll be able to learn extra of the admittedly complicated particulars over on Deadline. However what does this imply for a daily particular person? Properly, for those who’re a Star Wars fan, most likely not a lot. Actually, it’s possible you’ll already personal them on some form of bodily media and have a Disney+ subscription for those who ever need to verify them out. The large distinction actually is that there are merely extra locations it’s possible you’ll come across them whereas flipping by means of the channels… for those who even pay for cable anymore. Plus, it’s important to think about it offers Disney extra choices of name-brand content material it could actually air to fill gaps that may begin to come up as a result of ongoing actors’ strike. Identify-brand content material it already owned and had already been licensing, after all, however now can profit from in additional methods. What a rip-off the media is, proper?
And sure, all the films will remain on Disney+ together with the brand new TV exhibits.
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